“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But
the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a
scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he
must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to
see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists
forget that.” HHGTTG, Douglas Adams
Now
that it appears that (for at least the time being) grossly profiting
from the coronavirus issue is on the decline (except if anyone buys the
“4th booster for Pfizer”) and gross war profiting is once again taking
the lead, I want to reflect on MY experience with the Global Pandemic™.
I am a huge fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG)
universe that was conceived and written by the brilliant Douglas Adams
who died (years ago) at a too young age from unrelated coronavirus/vax
heart disease.
In reflecting on the past two years, the closest match I came up with is I felt like one of the HHGTTG’s main characters, Arthur Dent.
As
written, Arthur was a mild-mannered employee of the BBC who is wrenched
out of bed when a construction crew comes to his home to demolish it
for a highway overpass. He rushes out of his house and lies down in
front of a bulldozer in his “dressing gown.” During this scene, his best
friend Ford Prefect comes to “hitchhike” him off of planet Earth which
is about to be demolished by the Vogon Construction Fleet aliens who are
making a way for an intergalactic bypass. In both instances of
demolition, the “plans” were available for view and comment in planning
offices and it was too late to change anything.
Arthur goes
through most of the five books in the series in a bewildered and
befuddled state of mind in his dressing gown. I felt like this during
much of the past two years, myself: I spent much of the time in lounging
clothes, even when I went out. What was the use of getting dressed up
to head to a grocery store just to put a mask on and be in disguise?
To
be clear, I wasn’t in an Arthur Dent state because I had a loss of
mental, or physical capacity, it was because the propaganda for the
Global Pandemic™ (let’s shorten it to GloPan for the remainder of this
piece) was SO obviously conflated mis/disinformation and that those
around me seemed to be capitulating to it.. I was confused by the
compliance, to say the least. For example, if we were told by the GloPan
Chief-operating-officer (COO) Dr. Anthony Falsie, that “masks don’t
work,” the GloPanBots didn’t wear a mask; When Falsie changed to “masks
are mandatory and cloth masks are fine,” that’s what the GloPanBots did.
Then it was “wear a surgical mask and a cloth mask over it,” “add a
face-shield.” Every seamlessly told lie was shamefully obeyed by the
masses without a hint of irony, or question.
To be honest, after
the “two-weeks to flatten the curve” period was over and masks were
being pushed hardcore in businesses that GloPanCorp allowed to remain
open, I would wear a mask into grocery stores—which was the only place I
went. However, I NEVER wore one outside, in my home, or in a car.
Bollocks to that. Every time I passed a Masked Wonder on the street,
they would do a panicked swerve and a few almost fell over trying to
avoid me. I would always ask them, “Why did you do that, I am obviously
NOT sick?” One woman even retorted “How do you know?” If I had more time
to respond because she was already 1/2 block away from me in her rush
to avoid proximity to any human not covering their breathing holes, I
would have replied, “I think I would know if I were ill—and if I were
ill, I’d be home bingeing Netflix.”
DON’T PANIC
In the series, the HHGTTG is
an actual, constantly updated book that gives Galactic Hitchhikers
information about dining, drinking, avoiding monsters, and backgrounds
on each planet. In fact, Ford Prefect, Arthur’s alien best-friend was on
Earth working on Earth’s entry in the Guide. However, the only thing
written in the Guide under the entry “Earth” says is, “Mostly harmless.”
Printed on the cover of each HHGTTG is the advice “Don’t Panic.”
I
feel like most of the human race just erased the word “Don’t” and
panicked like crazy over a “Mostly harmless” pathogen. Now, don’t stop
reading at this point, I will explain myself using science, not $cience.
Sars-CoV-2
“If
there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity
of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.” HHGTTG, Douglas Adams
A
real life pandemic has the potential to be VERY frightening—with so
many dying, it would be impossible to count them, let alone bury them.
There would also be very little immunity to the disease that would have
the ability wipe out human-life on our planet. Even though the grossly
inflated Cov-19 numbers were purposely significant so you would line up
for an untested inoculation, the virus never got to the level of GloPan,
nor does it deserve the hysteria and profound destruction that
surrounded it.
We also don’t know, and may never know, the origins
of Cov-19. Was it a U.S./China lab leak from Wuhan? Did it come from a
wet market there? There was early speculation that the U.S. military
brought it to China during a sporting event there in late 2019.
Was it intentionally, or unintentionally loosed on the world?
I
am not in any of the above camps, but with the revelation of more than
two-dozen U.S. bioweapon labs in Ukraine, the plot thickens, doesn’t it?
Coronaviruses
have been with us for a long time. The disinfectant Lysol proclaims on
its can that it kills 99% of coronaviruses (even before GloPan). As
humans, most of us have built natural immunity to corona, but every now
and then, a mutant comes to infect us. As observed with Cov-19, most of
us develop mild symptoms that have the potential to be dangerous to the
elderly and more vulnerable populations: Just like every flu-type
pathogen that we’ve previously experienced.
Back in early 2020
when we started hearing about Cov-19, I wasn’t worried about the virus,
because I had the attitude that even if I did contract it, I would more
than likely be okay. I had a trip to commemorate International Working
Women’s Day to several communities on the East Coast planned for early
March, but I started to hear talk of quarantines (I don’t think we
called it a “lockdown” yet, but prison-talk would gradually start to
reveal itself) and I didn’t want to be blocked from returning home if I
ventured outside of California. I mean, they forbade cruise ships from
docking for days—we knew someone on one of them in the San Francisco
Bay—and, then flights started to get cancelled, so I cancelled by
activities and we were all hoping to reschedule soon.
“Soon,”
became as long as “two-weeks to flatten the curve.” In March, 2020, I
was sure that I would be able to travel for May Day; then it was the 4th
of July—-Maybe Labor Day would work? It soon became apparent that 2020
was going to be a wash, but perhaps we could schedule some IWWD events
for March 2021? Well, at the writing of this it’s April 2022 and I still
haven’t been able to leave for the East Coast. Even though travel
restrictions have loosened and it’s easier to travel, at this point, the
issue for me is masking for half of a day—-I can barely wear one for
10-minutes, let alone 12-15 hours. Being fully un-jabbed is also a
problem for some people and groups that I have worked with in the past.
How did my attitude develop towards Cov-19?
Why did I remain adamantly resistant to the agitprop? Why was I inherently immune to both Cov-19 and the coronaprop?
The
answer is quite easy and evident: the same people/institutions that
have lied and caused enormous harm to the people of this failed-state
AND the world were telling me to panic. Literally. I never believed
their bullshit about Global Terrorism (GloTerr), so why would I believe
this (to me) obvious B.S. of GloPan?
Besides, who knows if I had
Cov-19, or not? According to Dr. John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine
(Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health,
over 70% (in cross-age demographics) who were tested positive for Cov-19
had zero, or mild symptoms. The alarming numbers came from comparing
test numbers to deaths, instead of using IFR (infection fatality rate)
which would have dropped the numbers dramatically. Also, the
powers-that-be, have adjusting their ghoulish-death rate down and
admitted that those who died had an average of over THREE
co-morbidities. Not saying I am happy, nor am I minimizing the pain
these deaths caused, but, it seems most people who died of Cov-19 were
well on their way to meeting the Grim Reaper, anyway. Some people (like
me) work diligently to make our bodies hostile to pathogenic invaders,
while most Americans create a very welcoming environment for disease and
chronic conditions. This circumstance can be changed, but it takes
effort, where taking drugs is practically effortless (if you can afford
them).
Most people listened to the $cience of those who were paid
to come up with supporting $cience and feed it to the public through the
stenographer media class. One of the most egregious examples of this is
when the current director of the CDC Rachel Walensky said: “I first
heard of the efficacy of the Covid vaccine from CNN.” What!? Part of
her job is to literally investigate the safety and efficacy of medicines
and they operate the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).
Pfizer
spends millions of dollars sponsoring the legacy media and people like
Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Falsie have carte blanche to promote the
propaganda that brings them fame and fortune. The $cience has become a
cult of devotees called $cientism. Dr. Anthony (“If you attack me,
you’re attacking science”) Falsie is the Pope of this new religion that
still has a lot of fanatical adherents who pay a steep tithe for their
fake sense of safety with their health and freedoms.
Recently,
Pope Falsie has made another infallible (until it’s not) proclamation
that the adherents of $cientism, and we heretics, now have to evaluate
our own risk to viruses and proceed with our lives. Just like other
religions who believe that with fear, sin can be eliminated, the High
Priests of $cientism believe that viruses can also be wiped out. Neither
view is healthy or productive.
I listened to the science of
epidemiologists, MDs, virologists, and other researchers that not only
didn’t profit from their truth-spreading, but got banned from social
media, ridiculed by the profiteers, and, in some cases lost their jobs
or their licenses to practice medicine. If you know the way propaganda
works, you know that the voices of those who lie are most often elevated
and the ones that go against those lies are silenced.
9/11 and GloPan
Were four buildings (three WTC and one Pentagon) hit by airplanes on 9/11/2001?
There
are many narrative discrepancies with the official story that day. In
the midst of the terror, confusion and manufactured nationalism, the
Bush regime was already busy with its ultimate goal of invading Iraq
(for the oil), by way of Afghanistan. Of course, neither country/leader
had anything to do with the awful events of that day, but that didn’t
matter to the oil-garchy. One ironic difference between the GloTerr
response and GloPan was that Bush told us to travel and shop until we
drop. During GloPan we could buy groceries, but all of our other
purchases needed to come from Amazon, or other online options. So, while
Bezos was hoarding enormous wealth and building space rockets during
that time period, Main Street businesses struggled and a couple
hundred-thousand of them were collateral damage.
Despite how
Cov-19 came to the world and no matter what you believe: Deadly
pandemic, or mostly bullshit, I think most of us can recognize that the
PTB used it to deliver unbelievable and unconscionable profits to a very
few. As the diminutive Rahm Emanuel famously said, “Never let a good
crisis go to waste.” We can argue “Made it happen,” or “Let it happen”
all day for the rest of our lives, but the bottom line is, whether we
speak about 9/11 or GloPan, anyone with two-eyes can see that the
response was destructive to the majority, and profitable for the few.
The Effects of GloPan on Children
The
initial decision to close schools came as a not unwelcome measure to my
grandchildren who were happy for a break. If they, and most other
students, had known that the closures would extend to over a year and
that the horrors of Zoom “learning” would be in their future, I am not
sure they would have been so happy.
From the beginning of this
“pandemic” we were hearing that Cov-19 did not affect children the same
way that it was affecting adults. However, as the closures extended, we
were hearing from studies in places like Sweden that decided to take a
more measured (and more successful) response to Cov-19, that even if
children tested positive, they were not ill, nor were they infecting
other children or adults. In fact, the children acted like a sponge,
soaking up the virus without it going anywhere else. If things were done
naturally here, the students could have put a brake on infection rates.
Yet,
the lockdowns and school closures dragged on, month after month. It
seemed to my grandchildren and other students that no one in the
government, or at their schools, cared much for their mental or physical
health. Suicides and attempted suicides skyrocketed in this time period
to a level which was a legitimate health emergency.
Recently, a
survey delivered the sad news that 44% of teenagers report being
depressed, or hopeless. If this stat doesn’t damn the management of
GloPan straight to the burning depths of hell, I don’t know what does
(maybe the Eldercide).
Milestone activities like prom,
graduations, and sports were also taken away from the unlucky ones who
happened to be of that age. Playgrounds were illogically and tragically
roped off and beaches were closed. Anything that could actually enhance
the natural immunity of children (and others) like fresh air, sunshine,
sand, salt water, sports, and socialization were taken away. Instead of
prescribing more vitamin C, zinc, and vitamin D, we were told to isolate
and quarantine. Here in California, to the credit of some Democratic
lawmakers, they forced the lockdown fascist Newsom to reopen playgrounds
making the correct claim that lower-income families and children
suffered most from this misguided policy.
One thing the diseased
ruling-class knows, and WE need to understand is that life is more than
about avoiding germs (which is a ridiculous notion, anyway), but it’s
about connections and health. The health of our children was negatively
impacted by the Stasi-like measures that never made any sense from a
logical or even public health standpoint.
Take two neighboring countries that took two different approaches, Sweden and Finland.
Sweden
did not close schools, and Finland did. The infection rate of children
1-19 years of age were exactly the same: 0.005% The closures had zero
affect on the children of either country.
The Hidden Tragedy of Eldercide
“They
claimed it was for the sake of their grandparents and grandchildren,
but it was of course for the sake of their grandparent’s grandchildren,
and their grandchildren’s grandparents.” HHGTTG, Douglas Adams
As stated above, the justification for the flatten the curve bullshit was also put on the backs of the elders.
Andrew
Cuomo of New York was one of the first governors to institute a policy
of putting ill people in nursing homes, after first absolving said
nursing homes from any legal liability if anything went wrong. Of
course, this was for a price and an already greedy and shady businesses
agreed to take in sick people to further put their elders at risk.
Cuomo
is in some hot water now for hiding the nursing home deaths in his
state. As of this writing over 15, 000 residents of nursing homes have
allegedly died of C19, many due to Cuomo’s policies. But how awful it
must be to die alone gasping for breath while no family members are
allowed to visit? What? Sick people could be admitted to your family
member’s room, but you can’t go visit your grandma?
Cuomo was not
the only governor/health officer that took the “crisis” of GloPan to
kill its elderly citizens. We identified at least a dirty-half dozen
that did so: Newsolini of my state, California; and the governors of:
Pennsylvania; New Jersey; Minnesota; and the liberal Republican in
Massachusetts. Interestingly, DeSantis of Florida refused to do this and
he is under fire for having a more measured response to GloPan.
Who
or what were really “killing Meemaw?” Obviously, the policies of the
lockdown regime, not your family members. There are many state
governors, public health officials and random bureaucrats that need to
be tried, convicted, and punished for crimes against humanity!
Alternate Realities
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?” HHGTTG, Douglas Adams
In
about June of 2020, I began to see a very disturbing trend among my
anti-capitalist/empire colleagues, friends, and comrades: they were
uncritically following and promoting the establishment lockdown policies
and propaganda. Not only were they mesmerized by propaganda, many of
them began to attack people who had legitimate questions.
Even
though I have had heaps of shit piled on me for not supporting the
criminal likes of Obama, Clinton, or Biden, I was surprised by the
vitriol heaped on me when I started to question the obvious lies and
contradictions of the Cov-19 narrative. I thought that if someone was a
friend of mine by the GloPan, they would have more trust in me. I went
from being a principled critic of US Empire to being a “Qanon,
proud-boy, Trumper.” It was hurtful because I thought my remaining
friends were more high-quality than to become uncritical supporters of
the media and government.
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.” HHGTTG, Douglas Adams
Suddenly,
I (and many like me) were ridiculed and even being wished death from
the GloPan. These virtue-signaling, do-gooders were all about no one
dying from Cov-19, but it was apparently fine and dandy for people to
die from being incarcerated in a nursing home with ill patients, or from
having other health conditions deferred or denied. For two years
(before “I Stand With Ukraine” became THE thing), “Covid” deaths were
the only deaths that literally counted: EVERY DAMN DAY by the ghouls in
the media and governments.
Professor Christian Parenti stated it much better in his article (original link), How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind: an autopsy
The
socialist left, which wants to use state power to discipline capital
has instead accepted the negative image of its goal: state power used to
bully, harass, and discipline workers. The left’s embrace of Covid
hysteria makes a mockery of the left’s goals of planning, industrial
policy, economic redistribution, worker empowerment, and environmental
sustainability. This leftwing self-harm will have deleterious
consequences for years to come. Indeed, the situation is worse than a
mere political fumble. The left is now actively helping its own enemies.
In its unwavering support for mandates, passports, punitive lockdowns,
and censorship, the organized left has sided with technocratic elites,
the one percent, and the repressive state apparatus everywhere.
The Aftermath
Children
are suffering the most of the policies of a government that have never
given any shits about your health—or the well-being of its children. We
can’t let our guard down now because this episode was just too
profitable, even though it seems like we are getting back to “normal.”
You know, that normal where gas is almost $6/gallon and you have to get a
payday loan to buy groceries—FYI, despite what CNN and MSNBC say, this
is not Putin’s doing, it’s the hyper-inflation from lockdowns and
creating trillions in “wealth” backed up by nothing.
The future
is bleak, but we are still here. Whether we are jabbed, or not; whether
we bought the BS, or not; we are all in the same boat; and that boat is
sinking.
The Future
There is a moment in ever dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.” HHGTTG, Douglas Adams
My
dream would be for people to never forget that the establishment is
always at war with the working-class: their wars and pandemics and
distractions are designed to divide us so we fight each other and not
them. Why would anyone figuratively sign up to do the bidding of
diseased capital? Especially those who understood this before GloPan?
Big
pHARMa (reaping tens of billions of dollars in profit) and the
Imperialists do not need your uncritical support when that support is
detrimental to life on this planet.
For Bob’s sake, DON’T PANIC!
Never again!
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