âEver get the feeling youâve been cheated ?â
Johnny Rotten of âThe Sex Pistolsâ to the crowd at the Winterland, San Francisco, 1978.
Still wondering what the hell has been going on in the world since 2020, and just as importantly, why ? The following Twitter threads may shed some light on things.
First, Capitalist Exploits, @capitalistexp from 6th January 2023:
âIf you knew you were sitting at the helm of a collapse in fin mkts, which would bring social unrest and likely displace your position of power what would you have done?
This was the problem facing the elites in fall of 2019. Recall the repo crisis? The emergency debt crisis, which was the result of problems papered over since 08.
Desperate attempts to save the system were enacted (Fed funding repo mkts to tune of 10-20B p/d). It was so desperate that even treasuries were being rejected as collateral.
We hedgies, analysts, fin mkt guys/gals all knew the system was going to collapse. So did the elites. Collapse threatened them.
The scam that cannot be named was the veil for ushering in âThe great resetâ. An ability to crush small biz and destroy the middle class (who represent the greatest threat to totalitarian rule), print trillions of dollars, give it to themselves while controlling the collapse.
Collapse is necessary for them to enable and justify a techno feudal system â âbuild back betterâ. A system where all assets are owned by those at the helm of the destruction â âYouâll own nothing and be happyâ. Classic Hegelian dialectic.
Obvious at this point to all but the truly brainwashed or desperately naive is that there was no medical emergency. Only a mass MSM manufactured crisis, coupled with censorship never before seen (necessary to enable the transfer of wealth to elites..now done)
Groundwork was carefully laid for biomedical security state (passport systems, psychological NLP, much greater amt of work moved to online/digital). This is where the next manufactured crisis is to come. Corralling all those in digital system into something âsafe and secureâ.
A digital ID. To be tied in with CBDCâs, controlling spend (programable money), âsocial credit/ESGâ and vax passports. â Controlled spend, â Controlled movement/travel. See 15 min cities. â Controlled health â if you donât comply with measures youâll be cut off from payments
Payments being UBI. Dependancy is being established now. Post dependancy comes UBI. Soon as youâre reliant on UBI youâre a slave to the entire structure.
If you wish to know who is behind what is the greatest organised crime syndicate ever seen and behind what is a global war where citizens are both victim and weapon begin by looking at âThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentâ.
Numbers donât lie and we are already in a genocide. (excess mortality post âsafe and effectiveâ) Donât @ me do your own analysis. Welcome to WWIII. Itâs already hereâŚbut not in the way any of us ever envisaged.
What now? Well it must be stopped. Start local. The time for fearing ridicule is long past. Be brave, speak the truth. Understand an entire bag of âemergenciesâ are in the wings. We must be awake to these and shut them down immediately..before weâre all enslaved. â Endâ
Next, Michael Senger, @michaelpsenger, whose book âSnake Oil: how Xi Jinping shut down the worldâ is a must-read. The following thread, slightly abridged here, offers a summary of the book and was first published on Twitter on 31st October 2021:
âThrough propaganda and fraud, the CCP under Xi Jinping transformed the snake oil of lockdowns into âscience,â the greatest crime of the 21st century to date. This is the story of how he did it, and why.
INTRO In March 2020, liberal democracy ground to a sudden stop. Like the Reichstag Fire of 1933, historians may never know how SARS-CoV-2 came about. For scientists, exploring its origins would be a rewarding endeavour if it werenât precluded by the jackboot of Xiâs CCP.
But while intelligence agencies spent months investigating the virusâs origins, the world employed an unprecedented response that proved far more devastating than the virus itself: mass quarantines modelled on those imposed in China, commonly referred to as âlockdowns.â
It was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe since the Second World War. And it was all for nothing. Lockdowns had never been about science. Theyâd sprung into global policy on the order of the CCP princeling who was now the most influential member of the Baby Boom generation.
CHAPTER I â REDDER THAN READ Xi Jinping was born in Beijing in 1953. His father, Xi Zhongxun, was notable among Party leaders for his relative moderation. The Dalai Lama later gifted Xi Zhongxun a watch that he kept for the rest of his life.
At home, however, it was another story. Xi Zhongxun was a brutal disciplinarian who would scream, lash out at his wife, and beat Xi Jinping and his siblings. In public, the model statesman; in private, the tyrant.
In 1966, Mao launched his Cultural Revolution, setting radical Red Guards against the Party hierarchy. The stated goal was to purge all vestiges of capitalism and traditional Chinese society, imposing Mao Zedong Thought as Chinaâs dominant ideology..
In November 2012, Xi Jinping was elected General Secretary of the CCP. Xi was widely expected to be a moderate reformer who would continue leading his country toward openness and global cooperation. Xi Jinping had other plans.
CHAPTER II â CHAIRMAN OF EVERYTHING Xi assumed his role as General Secretary understanding his country to be in danger. Xi had long studied the collapse of the USSR and required his comrades do the same, including the subversion of communism through western values.
In 2013, Xi issued a secret directive known as Document No. 9. According to it, the ideas that threatened China included âindependent judiciaries,â âhuman rights,â âwestern freedom,â âcivil society,â âfreedom of the press,â and the âfree flow of information on the internet.â
In Xiâs words, âOnly socialism can save China, and only socialism can develop China.â Circumstance forces cooperation with the decadent capitalists, but the two systems cannot long co-exist. The Party values the liberal international order, but abhors its liberal values.
Xi became âChairman of Everything.â He acquired ten titles, assuming control of foreign policy, the internet, the courts, and the secret police. Through his anticorruption campaign, Xi rooted out âtigers and fliesââboth high- and low-ranking officials.
Xi revived Maoist demands for conformity, explaining that the media must serve as the Partyâs âthroat and tongue.â Thousands of churches and mosques across China have been demolished, and images of Christ replaced by images of Xi.
Xiâs war on western values includes surveillance and coercion of dissidents, students, and media outside China. The CCP bribes foreign officials, buys foreign media companies, sponsors foreign protests, and intimidates foreign researchers, activists, and media personalities.
In 2017, Chinese reformer Liu Xiaobo became the second Nobel laureate to ever die in prison, the first being Carl von Ossietzky, who perished in a concentration camp in 1938 after exposing Germanyâs clandestine rearmament under then-Chancellor Adolf Hitler..
An entire generation of academics, journalists, policymakers, and MBAs had learned to tell the story of a modernizing China. The tendrils of the CCPâs totalitarian system gradually extended into western institutions.
Over decades, the CCP had constructed a multilayered system for stifling dissent based on the Soviet psychological warfare technique of Zersetzung, or âpsychological decomposition,â causing individuals to willfully play down evidence before their own eyes..
Chinaâs state media has accounts all over websites blocked in China. Media channels built over time with fluff about Chinese culture and pandas can be activated at key moments to deliver propaganda to enormous audiences.
Some CCP disinformation bots have been found to have over 10,000 followers and to have tweeted in 55 different languages. The CCPâs social media army uses artificial intelligence to generate accounts with pictures of seemingly real, but fictitious people..
Within China, local officials obstruct foreign correspondents and security forces detain journalistsâ family members. The 2018 annual survey of the Foreign Correspondentsâ Club of China yielded âthe darkest picture of reporting conditions inside China in recent memoryâ..
CHAPTER IV â UNRESTRICTED WARFARE In early 2020, anyone who logged onto social media was greeted with a barrage of videos that alleged to depict scenes of a novel virus plaguing the residents of Wuhan, China.
These sensations captured Wuhan residents in various pantomimes of pandemic horror, terrifying millions of viewers around the world. Some showed their victims foaming at the mouth and collapsing in the streets. Others featured officials in hazmat suits.
For the naturally skeptical, the videos tended to look hysterical and fake. In one, a team of police with the word âSWATâ on their uniformsâin Englishâcaught a man with a butterfly net for removing his mask.
Official Chinese accounts widely shared an image of a hospital wing supposedly constructed in one day, but which actually showed an apartment 600 miles away.
In one of the biggest viral sensations, videos showed Chinese people spontaneously keeling over and dying from the virus in scenes likened to Zombieland and The Walking Dead.
In one notorious clip, the spontaneously dying man throws his arms out to catch himself.
Many dismissed the videos. But at the time these videos appeared, no one outside China knew whether COVID-19 really did cause sudden death.
And even for those who didnât buy in outright, there was always that nagging voice in their mind: âWhat ifâŚâ That âwhat if,â embedded into the unconscious mind, was perhaps the most powerful effect of all..
Some of the most influential footage showed authorities welding residents into their homes, both for their own good andâeven moreâfor the good of the world.
Another video featured a woman lying dead in the street and the story was that she had been shot at the border by doctors as she attempted to flee. But like all the others, this was a lie. It was a motor-scooter accident, artfully edited to tell a completely different story.
The Wuhan fear videos were the first of several perfectly-timed events that would provide the rationale for a fearful public to trade away their rights and livelihoods for lockdowns and restrictionsâthey crafted a powerful narrative and pre-programmed countless minds..
Rubber-stamping propaganda from a totalitarian dictatorship would seem to be a serious violation of NYTâs guidelinesâthough NYT had at least one bureau chief who did so for decades: Walter Duranty, whoâd spent years whitewashing Stalinâs atrocities for a global audience.
The story of COVID-19 had begun with a panoply of absurd events and outright lies. This is how lockdowns, having sprung into human consciousness on the order of Xi Jinping, were propagated into global policy with a total absence of precedent, analysis, or logic.
Lockdown proponents frequently justified their policies by comparing them to actions taken during the Spanish flu a century prior. But a cursory examination of those measures reveals that nothing remotely approximating lockdowns was ever imposed.
Not only are lockdowns historically unprecedented in response to any previous epidemic or pandemic in American history, but they are not so much as mentioned in recent guidance offered by the US CDC.
In the words of Federal Judge William Stickman: âIt appears as though the imposition of lockdowns in Wuhan and other areas of ChinaâŚstarted a domino effect where one country, and state, after another imposed draconian and hitherto untried measures on their citizens.â
Judge Stickmanâs intuition regarding the history of lockdowns was in line with the opinion of the foremost infectious disease scholars..
In fact, no western scientist had ever publicly supported lockdowns until Xi Jinping personally authorized the âunprecedented lockdown of Wuhan and other cities beginning on January 23.â
Xi later affirmed heâd issued these lockdown instructions on January 7, 2020, but his instructions have never been revealed. Chinese business leader Ren Zhiqiang was imprisoned for 18 years for an open letter requesting Xiâs instructions be made public.
When the lockdown of Wuhan began, the WHOâs representative in China noted that âtrying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science⌠The lockdown of 11 million people is unprecedented in public health history.â
Human rights observers expressed grave concerns about Chinaâs lockdown: âThe shutdown would almost certainly lead to human rights violations and would be patently unconstitutional in the United States.â
But human rights concerns didnât stop WHO from praising CCPâs âunprecedentedâ lockdowns just days later, long before they produced any results. âThe measures China has taken are good not only for that country but also for the rest of the world.
WHO Director Tedros Adhanom added that he was personally âvery impressed and encouraged by the president [Xi Jinping]âs detailed knowledge of the outbreakâ and the next day praised China for âsetting a new standard for outbreak response.â
But six days in, the lockdownâbeing âunprecedented in public health historyââhad produced no results, so Tedros was actually praising human rights abuses with nothing to show for them.
Soon after, the WHOâs Bruce Aylward told the press: âWhat China has demonstrated is, you have to do this. If you do it, you can save lives and prevent thousands of cases of what is a very difficult disease.â
Two days later, in an interview for China Central Television, Aylward put it bluntly: âCopy Chinaâs response to COVID-19.â
This is the same Bruce Aylward, who, shortly after telling the world, âWhat China has demonstrated is, you have to do this,â and âCopy Chinaâs response to COVID-19,â publicly refused to acknowledge Taiwanâs existence.
There are many glaring issues with the WHOâs conclusions. The WHO did not even consider other countriesâ economics, demographics, or even their number of COVID casesâwhich were very few in most of the worldâbefore telling the world: âYou have to do this.â
Lockdowns had never been tried or tested before 2020, even on a theoretical basis. Xi had brought âlockdownâ into human history; it otherwise never would have entered the collective imagination. Anytime anyone endorsed a lockdown, they were endorsing a Xi Jinping policy.
No one was more outraged by the CCPâs COVID-19 coverup than Xi Jinping. Xi personally saw to it that the local officials in Wuhan were punished for how theyâd treated poor Li Wenliang during his tragically short existence. Jan 27 to Feb 7, 2020. May he rest in peace.
But now the world faced a pandemicâand Xiâs âpublic healthâ policy was suddenly the worldâs go-to response. All the free world was exposedâlike so many dominoes. What a shame it would be if someone came along and gave them that one, little *tip.*
CHAPTER V â JUST STAY HOME In October 2015, Xi Jinping made his only visit to the United Kingdom as General Secretary of the CCP. A busy man, Xiâs trip lasted just four days, and he visited just one university: Imperial College London.
At Imperial, Xi announced ânew UK-China education and research collaborationsâ including ânanotechnology, bioengineeringâŚand public health.â Imperialâs President reiterated that Imperial âstrivesâ to be âChinaâs best academic partner in the westâŚâ
In February 2020, Imperial College proved just how valuable âChinaâs best academic partner in the westâ could be. An Imperial team led by Neil Ferguson ran a model predicting more than 500,000 in the UK and 2.2 million in the US might die of COVID-19.
Neil Ferguson recalled how China inspired him: âItâs a communist one party state, we said. We couldnât get away with it in Europe ⌠And then Italy did it. And we realised we could⌠If China had not done it, the year would have been very different.â
A study compared the accuracy of various institutionsâ models predicting COVID-19 mortality. Across all time periods, the models produced by Imperial College were measured to have FAR higher rates of error than the othersâALWAYS too high.
Imperialâs inaccuracy continued. Prior to the UK ending COVID restrictions on Jul 19, 2021, âFreedom Day,â Ferguson predicted â100,000 cases a day is almost inevitable.â Instead, cases per day fell dramatically from over 35,000 on July 18 to around 27,000 on July 23.
Just as Neil Fergusonâs models were giving COVID-19 hysteria a veneer of legitimacy, another piece of sophistry by Tomas Pueyo began making the rounds among policymakers, imploring world leaders to implement lockdowns on Chinaâs model.
Pueyo was an MBA with no relevant credentials or prior interest in epidemiology, and there was little to indicate where heâd gotten his ideas.
Pueyoâs article contained many oddities. It implored leaders: âBut in 2â4 weeks, when the ENTIRE WORLD is in lockdown.â Yet by March 10, WHO hadnât declared a pandemic there were hardly any cases in the developing world ex China.
Pueyoâs article went viral at an astonishing pace, gaining 40 million views in 9 days. Reactions were mixed. Many top commenters expressed shock at Pueyoâs lack of qualifications, and accused him of being a âliar and a fraud.â
Undeterred, on March 19, Pueyo posted another Medium article titled âThe Hammer and Dance,â which again went viral, explaining the strategy âThe Hammerâ (lockdowns) followed by âThe Danceâ (track and trace).
Three days after Pueyoâs âThe Hammer and Danceâ was published, a strategy paper by the German government (dubbed âthe Panic Paperâ) was secretly distributed to members of parliament and certain media outletsâplaying a large role in Germanyâs lockdown.
Despite being published just three days after Pueyoâs article, the German Panic Paper relied heavily on Pueyoâs work, discussing the âHammer and Dance.â The term âHammer and Danceâ has no history in epidemiologyâTomas Pueyo had invented it for his March 19 article.
One of the Panic Paperâs authors was Otto KĂślbl, who had no background in epidemiology or public health, but taught for many years in China and ran a blog in which heâd described Hong Kong as âparasiticâ and praised the CCPâs exemplary governance of Tibet.
Another author of the Panic Paper, Maximilian Mayer, also had no epidemiology or health background but spent years working at University of Nottingham in Ningbo China, Tongji University in Shanghai, and Renmin University Beijing.
Later, hundreds of pages of emails containing communications leading up to the Panic Paper were provided to Germanyâs independent Corona Committee. In one email, Mayer specifically recommended: âWe suggest the motto âcollectively distanced.ââ
Of the 210 pages of emails leading to the German Panic Paper, 118 were blacked out. The emails contained frequent references of China, but nearly all of these were redacted. The stated reason: âMay have adverse effects on international relations.â
At the same time leaders were digesting Fergusonâs models, Pueyoâs articles, and national abominations like the German Panic Paper, the CCP was engaging in a broad, largely-clandestine propaganda campaign to normalize and promote lockdown measures.
In China, the CCP has long paid hundreds of thousands of social media propagandists who post hundreds of millions of comments each year. Xi unleashed these activities globally and they escalated dramatically along with COVID.
In general, social media companies have only been able to detect obvious automated activity, while fake, personally-managed accounts can be created with ease. This works out nicely for the CCP, whoâve always preferred the human touch.
When Italy became the first country outside China to lock down, Chinese experts arrived on March 12 and two days later began advising tighter lockdowns..
Simultaneously, hundreds of thousands of clandestine social media postsâlater flagged as state-sponsoredâused identical terms to admire Chinaâs lockdowns and urge governments around the world to emulate them, denigrating those who failed to follow.
The bots stormed governments including, but not limited to: Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, France, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
On March 15, 2020, bots began wildly sharing a YouTube video they called a âmessage from the futureâ showing Italians with âa message to themselves from 10 days priorâ gaining 8,300,000 views.
As more countries shut down, some activity took a darker turn. When SD Governor Kristi Noem refused to issue a statewide lockdown, her Twitter feed was filled abuse to pressure her to do so. Some of these accounts would hurl similar abuse at governors across the country.
In this example, a model CCP account shows strong support for Chinaâs policies and abusesâincluding in Xinjiang and Hong Kongâand antipathy for Chinaâs key rivals, India and the US. The account strongly supported lockdowns all over the world.
The online abuse of anti-lockdown leaders continued for some time. When Brian Kemp, the first U.S. governor to end his stateâs lockdown, honoured late Representative John Lewis, his Twitter feed was stormed in conspicuous language that often attacked his anti-lockdown stance.
Simultaneously, Chinese state media began describing âherd immunityâ as a strategy violating âhuman rightsâ:
Sweden, whose leaders were unique in forgoing lockdowns, became a primary target of the CCPâs lockdown propaganda campaign.
Meanwhile, the scientific foundations for lockdowns were being laid. Underpinning lockdown was âasymptomatic spreadââthe sole basis for restricting healthy peopleâbelieved to be a novel feature of COVID based on studies from China.
In March 2020, WHO released guidance recommending mechanical ventilators to treat COVID patients, citing Chinese journal articles claiming âChinese expert consensusâ called for âinvasive mechanical ventilationâ as the âfirst choiceââin part to protect staff from âaerosols.â
Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell acted as an early whistleblower in a widely-shared video. The WHO and Chinaâs early ventilator guidance had killed thousands of innocent patients. A study later showed a 97.2% mortality rate among those over age 65 who received mechanical ventilation.
In a matter of weeks, the world had dismissed a century of epidemiological research and adopted the model of the CCP. South Australiaâs Chief Health Officer recalled how the WHOâs Bruce Aylward urged her into this course of action:
In the UK Governmentâs official Coronavirus Action Plan from March 3, 2020, discussing social distancing, school closures, and rapid COVID test and vaccine development, nearly every source the Government cited was from China.
All the measures outlined in New Zealandâs official COVID-19 Elimination Strategy documentââphysical distancingâ âwidespread testingâ âsurveillanceââwere adopted from China based on the reported success of the CCPâs Wuhan lockdown.
Days after its âPanic Paper,â the German government published a âcatalog of measuresâ from âexpertsâ at âUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo China,â recommending lockdowns, testing, and quarantine centersâand what would soon be a global COVID propaganda slogan: âTogether apart.â
CHAPTER VI â EVERYTHING IS FAKE In March 2020, following WHO, labs across the world began mass PCR testing for COVIDâanother departure from previous guidance. KĂślbl and Mayer, the Sinophiles behind Germanyâs Panic Paper, also called for PCR testing in âLearning from Wuhan.â
The WHOâs testing guidance contained only three studies discussing PCR cycle thresholds. All were from China, and all used cycle thresholds from 37 to 40âa standard adopted in the US and many other countriesâpursuant to which 90% of positive tests were false, per NYT.
Anthony Fauci agreed that a Ct of 35 or more is not a real positive. Based on guidance issued by WHO, citing three studies from China, labs across the US and many other countries have been using cycle thresholds for PCR tests that inflate COVID case counts ten-fold.
PCR technology was invented in 1983 by American biochemist Kary Mullis to let scientists to study tiny samples of DNA in detail. For this, he won the Nobel prize. At a panel discussing PCR in 1993, Mullis stated quite plainly that PCR should not be used to diagnose illness.
In a 1996 interview Mullis had choice words for Anthony Fauci, then head of the US response to AIDSâespecially Fauciâs misuse of PCR. Set the Ct high enough and PCR can pick up any amount of viral matter and yield endless âcasesââa permanent pandemic.
While much of the CCPâs pro-lockdown influence was surreptitious, its overall stance in support of global lockdowns was explicit. In a video posted by Chinaâs official foreign spokesperson, a 7-year-old girl recites a script on obeying lockdown rules.
FBI Director Christopher Wray disclosed that the CCP had specifically approached local politicians to endorse its pandemic response. âYes, this is happening at both the federal and state levels.â
The overarching lie hammered by the CCP into elite discourse was: âChina controlled the virus.â Of course, âChina controlled the virusâ was a boldfaced lie. But by reinforcing that lie in high society, the CCP ensured its fake data remained paramount in scientific discourse.
Lockdown propaganda relied on two key principles inherent to virtually all official communications on COVID-19. The first was that Chinaâs measures were the only ones proven âeffective.â The second was that fear was necessary to ensure compliance for lockdowns to succeed.
Through fear, the perception of much of the population would detach from any real data. Though COVIDâs average IFR for those under 40 is under 0.01%, Americans under 40 consistently estimated their chance of dying if they got it to be around 10%, a 1,000-fold overestimation.
Likewise, in 2021, the UK Government revised its official estimate for COVIDâs IFR to below 0.1%. But in polls, Australians on average estimated their chance of dying if they contracted the virus to be 38%âhundreds of times higher than it really was.
The CCP was abetted at virtually every stage of its lockdown fraud by a global media apparatus that reliably toed its linesâaligning almost perfectly with the CCPâs goals. Articles from March 10, 2020, illustrate how elite media outlets adopted Chinaâs narrative in unison.
The snowball effect of this little lieâChina controlled the virusâwas soon apparent in journalistsâ own writing. Within months, theyâd been transformed into foaming-at-the-mouth communists, dripping with illiberalism as they implored the world to emulate China.
Millions surely suspected the lockdown fraud, but among those who believed Chinaâs COVID-19 narrativeâor pretended toâall the authoritarian methods that supposedly contributed to Chinaâs âsuccessââincluding censoring, cancelling, and firing dissentersâwere on the table.
The media soon developed its own set of twisted journalistic norms. Channeling Walter Durantyâs infamous defence of Stalin, âYou canât make an omelette without breaking a few eggs,â all the unimaginable harms of lockdowns were attributed, absurdly, to âpandemic disruptions.â
Politicians, scientists, journalists, and common professionals of all stripes became comfortable repeating big, deadly lies about the worldâs response to COVID-19. The Soviet Union had tried to beat the west; Xi Jinping had simply bought it..
The CCPâs lockdown operation appears to have had its philosophical origins in the book Unrestricted Warfare, magnum opus of Chinaâs most influential modern strategists. In Unrestricted Warfare, the authors reimagine warfare for the 21st century.
In Unrestricted Warfare, the authors foresee a pivot away from heavy machinery to attacks on the mind. âSome morning people will awake to discover with surprise that quite a few gentle and kind things have begun to have offensive and lethal characteristics.â
In Oct 2019, two months before the SARS-CoV-2 virus was revealed in Wuhan, the Gates Foundation, WEF, Bloomberg, and J Hopkins hosted Event 201âa pandemic simulation. Each organization had close ties to China, and each played a major role in the worldâs response to COVID-19.
Itâs unlikely that many participants at Event 201 realized a coronavirus was sweeping across Asia at the time. But the CCP may well have manipulated its COVID data to trigger the apocalyptic responses planned by the China-friendly organizations at Event 201.
Event 201 delegates included George Gao, director of Chinaâs CDC, who oversaw the original article on COVID-19 symptoms. Participants discussed controlling âmisinformationâ in a coronavirus pandemic, and Gao even raised the point of countering rumors the virus was man-made..
From the very start, the COVID narrative overtly suggested a bioweapon. Whistleblowers; residents collapsing; lockdown; novel virus; all science tossed out. But it was all a lie. Reverse psychology. This was how the CCP convinced the world an ordinary virus was a supervirus.
There was abundant evidence SARS-CoV-2 had begun spreading much earlier than December 2019. A widely-published report revealed that orders for PCR tests had soared in China beginning in May 2019, a full seven months before China had reported its first coronavirus case.
It may seem strange that intelligence officials failed to see the clear signs that the CCP was promoting lockdowns and fear of COVID-19. But as Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan made clear, national security officials can take many years to admit an embarrassing mistake.
Furthermore, the lab investigation was only necessary because the CCP refused to reveal what they knew about COVID-19. This could be added to their already-long list of unforgivable crimesâall of which were happening in plain sight. That, itself, was a psychological game.
No one was more concerned about what transpired at the Wuhan lab than Xi Jinping. Now, out of an abundance of caution, the west would have to stay shut down. For years, if possible. Forever? Just as good. After all, there was so much about this virus we didnât know.
CHAPTER VIII â TOGETHER APART âEach act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next⌠But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.â â Milton Mayer, 1955
Xi Jinping would never forget the day he met Bill Gates. It was May 2012, during Gatesâs visit to Beijing. Gates was a longtime Sinophile, and he and Xi met twice more in 2013 and 2015, each time seeking deeper scientific collaboration.
Xi and Gates met again during Xiâs 2015 trip to Seattle, where Xi announced new collaborations with the University of Washington, second-most influential COVID modeler. Bill invited Xi for dinner, but had to cancel when Xi didnât show up. They were married men, after all.
Gatesâ global influence pushed many institutions in a pro-lockdown direction. When COVID broke out, Gates sent tens of millions of dollars to the CCP to assist with Chinaâs response, for which Xi wrote him a personal thank you. Xi would make sure that money went to good use.
Gates expressed exasperation with the west in contrast to China. Gates blamed western âfreedomâ; China, by contrast, he said, âdid a very good job of suppressing the virus,â thanks to the âtypical, fairly authoritarianâ approach and âindividual rights that were violated.â
In Aug 2021, Gates called for âall countriesâ to be âmore like Australiaâ; parts of Australia were then at 200 days in strict lockdown with COVID cases at all-time highs. Gates went on: âFlu and common coldâŚwe can build tools that, over time, can get rid of those as well.â
We may never know just how many westerners supported the CCPâs COVID-19 narrative because of their relationships with China. But the fact that the pandemic guidelines of the WHO and nearly every developed nation were discarded suggests that the corruption ran very deep.
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet and lead advisor to the UK, said the world should thank China for lockdown: âIt was not only the right thing to do, but it also showed other countries how they should respondâŚSo, I think we have a great deal to thank China for.â
Susan Michie, lead UK SAGE advisor and 40-year British Communist Party member, expressed outrage when asked whether this might inform her draconian policies: âIâve come on your program as a scientistâŚâ Michie was a behavioral scientist with no background in epidemiology.
Leana Wen, one of the most influential voices in the US COVID response, became famous for advocacy of coercive vaccination measures. A WEF Young Leader, Wen was granted asylum from the CCP to live in the USâbut somehow that didnât stop her from returning to work in China.
Eric Feigl-Ding, another WEF Young Leader, took the COVID con to a whole other level with his wildly-inaccurate pro-lockdown tweets, leading to interviews with CNN and NYT despite his nonexistent qualifications and being denounced as a âcharlatanâ by scientists on all sides.
Of course, no one toed the CCPâs COVID lines more reliably than Anthony Fauci, who shut down America on nothing but the WHO and NYTâs endorsement of Wuhanâs lockdown, then advocated one totalitarian mandate after anotherâall of which heâd said were useless in February 2020.
When life for many Americans halted, many flocked to Florida. Gov DeSantis became the first major leader to share his belief the CCP influenced lockdowns: âChina was very much invested in promoting lockdownsâŚuntil COVID, public health guidance was neverâŚto just lock down.â
No one described lockdown madness with grander eloquence than former UK Supreme Ct Justice Lord Sumption: âWe have moral reasonsâŚfor not wishing to be like ChinaâŚnowâŚwhat began as a public health crisis isâŚan educational crisisâŚand social crisis on top of that.â
Of course, every COVID-19 mandate was per se unconstitutional. The initial lockdowns had been intended as a psychological blitz that shocked and overwhelmed normal legal and ethical processes. And the worldâs high courts largely stepped aside and let it all happen.
In the US, the Supreme Court used Jacobson v. Mass, a 1905 case in which a man was fined $5 for refusing a vaccine, to justify all COVID mandates. A man of principle, Mr. Jacobson had taken his case all the way to Washingtonâhe shelled out the five bucks and went on his way.
There are many problems with the Supreme Courtâs use of Jacobson v. Mass to justify COVID mandates. First, Jacobson had been overruled many times, not least because it was used to justify eugenics in Buck v. Bellâa decision then cited by Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials.
Second, the Supreme Courtâs justification for COVID mandates depended on a specific word: âpandemic.â By 2021, lobbyists and the WHO werenât even pretending they ever intended the âpandemicâ to end. âDelta to LambdaâŚon to the other Greek letters.â
In Oct 2021, Spainâs Minister of Health announced mask mandates would be kept in place for as long as there was still a seasonal flu: âThe masks are here to stay, at least as long we have influenza or other autumn viruses.â
For two years, the world watched its political class play dumb about how theyâd imported a totalitarian âpublic healthâ regime from China. Germany even produced a study on implementing a âsocial credit system like in China.â
At the 2021 G7 opening, leaders made a show of masking, forgoing handshakes, and distancingâbut the next day posed unmasked in tight groups. The message: âWe know you know weâre lying about COVID. To be one of us, you need to keep lying as well.â
Journalist Gerhard Wisnewski characterized the governmentsâ policies as a series of âcompletely nonsensical and contradictory measures.â âThere is a method behind this madness. It is actually a method of tortureâŚand interestingly enough, they were developed in China.â
In April 2021, the Chinese began downplaying their own vaccine. Just days later, first the WHO, then Fauci, Boris Johnson, and Justin Trudeau followed, dramatically downplaying the effectiveness of vaccines and calling for more lockdown measures.
Early on, China had rolled out a digital COVID pass system using color codes for vaccination status. Sure enough, the system entertained by the Biden administrationâs COVID team a year later used this same color code system.
In the US, the proposal at the federal level was widely seen as a political trial balloon by lobbyists and scrapped. But Europe wasnât so lucky. In June 2021, the EU Parliament approved digital COVID vaccine passports for travel within the European Union.
For all their inhumanity, itâs unclear that vaccine mandates increased uptake. In Italy, the number choosing to vaccinate declined. Many citizens refused to get vaccines as long as governments tied them to civil liberties.
In cities all across Europe, Australia, and Canada, protesters took to the streets in the tens of thousands to protest against lockdowns, vaccine passes, and other vestiges of CCP-style medical tyranny..
Police brutality flared as law-enforcement personnel faced protesters angry at the suspension of human rights through policies justified only by the exaggerated fears the policies themselves sowed, and which therefore had no endpoint.
In 2021, as cases rose to all-time highs in Australia despite some of the worldâs strictest lockdowns, the military was deployed and police imprisoned and fired rubber bullets at protesters, including at Melbourneâs Shrine of Remembrance.
From the beginning, moderates had rationalized their silence about the unprecedented suspension of civil liberties on the basis that COVID lockdown measures were temporary, and if the policies crossed some unspecified line they would speak up. To some degree, that did occur.
But it was too late. As is their perennial error, western moderates failed to recognize the ethical, scientific, and legal indefensibility of the pro-lockdown position. The ultimate red line was crossed in March 2020. Catastrophic and irreparable damage could not be undone.
Since the original egalitarian propaganda of communism no longer fooled most people, the system had to be rebooted with a new lie that would justify the indefinite suspension of the rule of law. Xi had found it in the form of a âvirus.â
CHAPTER IX â THE YEAR OF THE RAT âONE WORD OF TRUTH SHALL OUTWEIGH THE WHOLE WORLD.â â Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This thread is just a small fraction of the info contained in the book. Chapter IX is the best partâI wonât ruin the ending here.â
Possible conclusions from these two threads ?
1: We are now implicitly at war with China, and â even more disconcertingly â with our own governments, which give every sign of having been overrun with activists expressly sympathetic to a neo-Marxist agenda.
2: No state institutions or mainstream media are to be trusted.
Invest, and behave, accordingly.
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Thanks so much Tim for sharing this and the important historical overview that it provides. Australia features strongly, and clearly we were under the thumb of the "build back better" group and their Mr Big. As I read through the various chapters, it became clear that yet another "chapter" is still to come, but this time there are the tools and historical compliance to make it simple for government. I have been talking to many people here about our collective Australian amnesia - everyone seems to have forgotten the last few yesars. Surprisingly, most people are grateful for the lockdowns and the government overreach. The great Australian quality of "she'll be right mate" has been used against us, and I fear that our country will never be the same.
My close relatives in the UK are both Pharmacists maintain the Government policies were necessary and my sister in law has been vaccinated and boosted 5 times now. Everything else is conspiracy theory for them.