Dec 28, 2023·edited Dec 28, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
COVID makes me so angry. fuck all of you who vilified people for making health decisions for themselves and not other people. fuck doctors and nurses for letting people cheer them at shift change, after they'd spent the entire day blowing peoples lungs out with respirators, while they made tiktok videos. fuck all these government bureaucrats who arbitrarily decided on 6 feet to stop the spread. fuck my fellow citizens who were too selfishly scared for their own lives they never bothered to ask questions. BIG fuck you to the media for becoming government boot lickers. fuck all the academics who suddenly had no idea if infection might result in immunity. fuck people who ratted out their neighbors, family members and friends. fuck hospital admins who forced scared, sick people to die alone. fuck EVERYONE AND ANYONE who just went along to get along. i will never forgive you.
fuck everyone who is living their life as if nothing every happened. i will never forget.
It took me a little while to figure out what was going on, but once I did I was pretty loud in my criticisms of all things Covid throughout much of the ordeal. I alienated most of my former social circles and am pretty sure I persuaded no one of anything other than that I’m a kook. And as an attorney, I’m a professionally trained persuader. But at some point I just kept quiet, stepped back, and waited for everyone to wake up on their own as all the narratives collapsed. In the deeply progressive, educated blue bubble I was born and raised in, that moment still hasn’t come. These people have completely outsourced their thinking to the MSM, federal bureaucracies, and academia. This forms an impenetrable fortress.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Or, in other words, trust the experts. Once this command has been obeyed, there’s no getting through. People cannot be reasoned out of positions they did not reason themselves into. The archetypal forces at work will play themselves out until the end and there’s nothing we can do to stop them. So while your analysis here is excellent, I don’t believe being loud will accomplish much. By all means, speak the truth and don’t comply. But things will get very very dark before a critical mass of humanity wakes up, and there’s very little we can do to ward off the impending darkness.
There was so much nonsense being pushed in 2020 (and onward). Who remembers, "my mask protects you and your mask protects me"? It was a one-way protection mask! Apparently, you couldn't breathe the covid virus OUT if you wore that magic mask, but you could certainly breathe it IN.
Ah Rupert Beale....I remember him. He blocked me on Twitter (before it was X). He's a branch Covidian. Totally committed to the religion. And the jabs of course.....
We had some nonsensical rules in the UK. At one point you could only go to the pub if you were having "a substantial meal". There was much debate in parliament as to what a substantial meal was....turns out a scotch egg (hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and breadcrumbs) has anti covid properties....One small brewery came up with a beer called Substantial Meal...😂
It still amazes me how many seemingly intelligent and successful people around us fell completely under the authoritarian spell and were hostile toward those of us who raised questions or doubts.
We have similar credentials but they acted like we were idiots for asking questions.
This is the great schism and mystery. How many years earlier did we split off from the brainwashed masses, without realizing it?
My father took us out of the suburbs when I was 10 and moved us to a ranch far from the little town where we attended school. We never hung around with the town kids.
I guess from this enforced isolation, and the fact that our parents always treated us like little adults, we were automatically set on a different path than our peers.
I never developed a herd mentality. I had no instinct for following the crowd. Living on a ranch, we learned how to do things, fix things and take responsibility for everything we touched.
I guess other people who think and act for themselves must have had similar experiences that bred deviation from the norm.
But does that excuse the brainwashed masses for dismissing the independent thinkers, with different life experiences, as IDIOTS?
At least from my own observation, I saw the fear in people's eyes. There was fear in the news - not just the usual let's whip 'em up for the news at 5 fear, but real fear - fear of uncertainty. Our country also suffers from a pandemic of credentialism - anyone holding a piece of paper from specific institutions had up until 2022, been automatically worshipped as 'experts' and 'scientists' who were never wrong.
Until they were wrong. Then the fear-o-meter rang up to 11. The side-show automaton Fauci-clown kept his mouth open the entire 3 years, and what came out was the incestuous hell-spawn of politicized science.
What I witnessed was the facade of credentialism exposed and the sheer banality of demanding that their lies were better than anything those unrecognized, great-unwashed rogue professionals who weren't part of their anointed leftist cabal might say. It was nothing if enlightening to the true nature of those seeking to maintain power.
In doing so, for an uncomfortable period of time, it exposed the leprous skin of their underbelly and revealed their playbook. Sure, watch for the narrative switches, but 2024 is looking more like a teetering bucket of excrement about to fall into a massive rotary accelerator.
Even Fauci switched his positions 180 degrees on almost all things COVID as time went on and he became political. Had he stood his ground, there’d have been a different little troll at the podium for 3 years. Trump is to blame for Fauci’s entrenchment: for not being better at surrounding himself with smart and honest people. Once Biden saw how Fauci was replete with “2.5 knowledge” (knowing what’s right when told), Fauci was a no brainer to hang around for the duration. The video montages that ppl do of these psychos switching positions are gold.
Dec 28, 2023·edited Dec 28, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
Firstly, kudos to Chris for identifying another example of the doublethink and arbitrary flipflopping involved as the public health establishment decried their own position of a few weeks prior as now being homicidal misinformation. That’s important to note.
But on the underlying merits, the excerpts above show the GBD people *did* have harmful and irrational prescriptions; it’s just that the problem is the opposite of what the blob establishment was condemning them for. In reality Bhattacharya et al. didn’t diverge from the covidians’ dystopian crap *enough*.
All those elaborate nursing home procedures: how much actual slowing of viral transmission would they achieve beyond just the old rule of “stay home if you feel like you’ve got a cold or flu,” at the cost of making everyone’s covid status a constant, central aspect of their lives?
Why use “frequent testing” to control spread, when the tests – assuming they are not used in a way that renders them completely meaningless (such as 40+ PCR cycles) – only detect exposure, not illness or infectiousness?
How dare the GBD authors prioritize their academic preoccupations over real people’s need for human contact? Are “retired people living at home” really better off not encountering anybody but family members, and family members only outdoors? So if it’s cold or raining, grandparents shouldn’t see the grandkids at all? (Chris lives in SoCal, but where I live that would mean a lot of mandatory isolation days for the olds.)
All right, you get the idea.
I appreciate that the GBD people are not part of the world-destroying, space-lizard mindfuck. They stuck with their profession’s pre-existing nonsense rather than dump it and adopt even worse nonsense when most of their peers did so without a moment’s hesitation. But they were still WRONG.
(I’ve been wanting to get this GBD “focused protection” rant off my chest for years; thanks to Chris for the opportunity.)
If Jay Battacharya had only been a respected academic like, let’s say, Claudine Gay, it would have been more difficult to disparage it. Unlike Ms. Gay, he wasn’t able to condense his scholarly work to nine article. He apparently couldn’t distill his thoughts in less than a couple of hundred. It’s so sad.
What you write about our situation is so funny, but very sad and pathetic. The way that otherwise normal people completely abandoned all reason and rationality, without even questioning the hysteria and authoritarianism, shows that many people will gladly give up all their freedoms for some vague promise of safety and security. As the saying goes, they will have neither. Which I disapprove of, but if that's how they want to live, let them have it, good and hard, to paraphrase that most cynical writer from Baltimore, H.L. Mencken. The problem is, these people wanted me to give up my freedom, too and that's where the problem comes to a head.
My better half and I both signed the Barrington proclamation early on and would do so in a New York nano second again, just to support the rational points those brave men and women did when they wrote it. I assume our names are on some list that the CHEKA's keep on counter revolutionaries like me, you, Chris, and all your readers, for use by their Einsatzgroupen when they come to round us up for our wrong think. ( Yes, the CHEKAS were Soviets and the Einsatzgroupen were NAZI's, but as Hitler said, the two were very similar and they were all socialists together).
Thank you, as usual, for this entertaining but true gallows humor as we approach the new year. To quote Lord Protector Cromwell, we should all place our faith in God, but keep our powder dry.
Well Chris, I hope that your Christmas was normal and filled with no disasters.
As for the narratives and whatever new batch of disease they're working up, you know they already have 30% of the population salivating to enforce masking again, and more.
The middle ground, let's compromise, mistakes were made stance by the likes of Dr. Jay and others is masking the bigger issue. Based on the Infection Fatality Rate, not to mention the miraculous disappearance of the flu during peak "covid-years" has been swept under the carpet. Everyone needs to make their own health decisions, and those who were compromised would have been equally at risk during a bad flu season as they were during the plandemic. For the vast majority, no significant deviation from past protocols for getting sick were necessary. Sure, our population is generally obese, consumes a horrible diet, and is far to sedentary, but even taking that into consideration, most would have been better off with rest, liquids, and some NyQuil. Or maybe Ivermectin or Hydroxycloriquin. Of course those were framed as horse paste or another equally demonizing name, but it is correct. All of this compromising on what is appropriate lends credibility to the horrendous decisions that were enacted. Even Dr. Jay has stood by the vaccines as good and necessary for segments of the population. Until we are able to identify that the IFR never justified the steps taken, we are fucked. This wishy-washy middle ground they have trapped us in only allows the DOD, CDC, FDA and others behind this to push globalization and allow the likes of Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab to advance their agendas. The extremely low percentage of our population that understands this makes any progress unlikely. Especially when there are so many out there still wearing masks, getting boosters, and following the asinine protocols. I don't watch TV, but had dinner with friends on Christmas, and of course football was on all afternoon. Mainstream media sends out a continuous stream of messaging that is disturbing at best. If I never see that asshat Travis Kelce with two bandages on his shoulder pushing Pharma-clot-shots again it will be too soon. I am beginning to think the majority will never wake up, and it will be up to those of us not onboard to make our own path, deal with being alienated from so-called-friends, and skip doctor visits. The last four years have left me feeling disgusted by the majority of the population.
COVID makes me so angry. fuck all of you who vilified people for making health decisions for themselves and not other people. fuck doctors and nurses for letting people cheer them at shift change, after they'd spent the entire day blowing peoples lungs out with respirators, while they made tiktok videos. fuck all these government bureaucrats who arbitrarily decided on 6 feet to stop the spread. fuck my fellow citizens who were too selfishly scared for their own lives they never bothered to ask questions. BIG fuck you to the media for becoming government boot lickers. fuck all the academics who suddenly had no idea if infection might result in immunity. fuck people who ratted out their neighbors, family members and friends. fuck hospital admins who forced scared, sick people to die alone. fuck EVERYONE AND ANYONE who just went along to get along. i will never forgive you.
fuck everyone who is living their life as if nothing every happened. i will never forget.
It took me a little while to figure out what was going on, but once I did I was pretty loud in my criticisms of all things Covid throughout much of the ordeal. I alienated most of my former social circles and am pretty sure I persuaded no one of anything other than that I’m a kook. And as an attorney, I’m a professionally trained persuader. But at some point I just kept quiet, stepped back, and waited for everyone to wake up on their own as all the narratives collapsed. In the deeply progressive, educated blue bubble I was born and raised in, that moment still hasn’t come. These people have completely outsourced their thinking to the MSM, federal bureaucracies, and academia. This forms an impenetrable fortress.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Or, in other words, trust the experts. Once this command has been obeyed, there’s no getting through. People cannot be reasoned out of positions they did not reason themselves into. The archetypal forces at work will play themselves out until the end and there’s nothing we can do to stop them. So while your analysis here is excellent, I don’t believe being loud will accomplish much. By all means, speak the truth and don’t comply. But things will get very very dark before a critical mass of humanity wakes up, and there’s very little we can do to ward off the impending darkness.
Here are some more narratives you cannot notice or question.
- Men and women are interchangeable
- Trans women are women
- Concrete, observable things are social constructs (sex, race, intelligence etc.)
- Diversity is a strength
- Economies built on debt are stable
- A technocratic or bureaucratic state can plan better than we can
- We can improve society by discriminating against successful groups
- We can control the weather by raising taxes
- Giving governments emergency powers is essential
And on and on.
There was so much nonsense being pushed in 2020 (and onward). Who remembers, "my mask protects you and your mask protects me"? It was a one-way protection mask! Apparently, you couldn't breathe the covid virus OUT if you wore that magic mask, but you could certainly breathe it IN.
Ah Rupert Beale....I remember him. He blocked me on Twitter (before it was X). He's a branch Covidian. Totally committed to the religion. And the jabs of course.....
We had some nonsensical rules in the UK. At one point you could only go to the pub if you were having "a substantial meal". There was much debate in parliament as to what a substantial meal was....turns out a scotch egg (hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and breadcrumbs) has anti covid properties....One small brewery came up with a beer called Substantial Meal...😂
It still amazes me how many seemingly intelligent and successful people around us fell completely under the authoritarian spell and were hostile toward those of us who raised questions or doubts.
We have similar credentials but they acted like we were idiots for asking questions.
This is the great schism and mystery. How many years earlier did we split off from the brainwashed masses, without realizing it?
My father took us out of the suburbs when I was 10 and moved us to a ranch far from the little town where we attended school. We never hung around with the town kids.
I guess from this enforced isolation, and the fact that our parents always treated us like little adults, we were automatically set on a different path than our peers.
I never developed a herd mentality. I had no instinct for following the crowd. Living on a ranch, we learned how to do things, fix things and take responsibility for everything we touched.
I guess other people who think and act for themselves must have had similar experiences that bred deviation from the norm.
But does that excuse the brainwashed masses for dismissing the independent thinkers, with different life experiences, as IDIOTS?
At least from my own observation, I saw the fear in people's eyes. There was fear in the news - not just the usual let's whip 'em up for the news at 5 fear, but real fear - fear of uncertainty. Our country also suffers from a pandemic of credentialism - anyone holding a piece of paper from specific institutions had up until 2022, been automatically worshipped as 'experts' and 'scientists' who were never wrong.
Until they were wrong. Then the fear-o-meter rang up to 11. The side-show automaton Fauci-clown kept his mouth open the entire 3 years, and what came out was the incestuous hell-spawn of politicized science.
What I witnessed was the facade of credentialism exposed and the sheer banality of demanding that their lies were better than anything those unrecognized, great-unwashed rogue professionals who weren't part of their anointed leftist cabal might say. It was nothing if enlightening to the true nature of those seeking to maintain power.
In doing so, for an uncomfortable period of time, it exposed the leprous skin of their underbelly and revealed their playbook. Sure, watch for the narrative switches, but 2024 is looking more like a teetering bucket of excrement about to fall into a massive rotary accelerator.
Even Fauci switched his positions 180 degrees on almost all things COVID as time went on and he became political. Had he stood his ground, there’d have been a different little troll at the podium for 3 years. Trump is to blame for Fauci’s entrenchment: for not being better at surrounding himself with smart and honest people. Once Biden saw how Fauci was replete with “2.5 knowledge” (knowing what’s right when told), Fauci was a no brainer to hang around for the duration. The video montages that ppl do of these psychos switching positions are gold.
Firstly, kudos to Chris for identifying another example of the doublethink and arbitrary flipflopping involved as the public health establishment decried their own position of a few weeks prior as now being homicidal misinformation. That’s important to note.
But on the underlying merits, the excerpts above show the GBD people *did* have harmful and irrational prescriptions; it’s just that the problem is the opposite of what the blob establishment was condemning them for. In reality Bhattacharya et al. didn’t diverge from the covidians’ dystopian crap *enough*.
All those elaborate nursing home procedures: how much actual slowing of viral transmission would they achieve beyond just the old rule of “stay home if you feel like you’ve got a cold or flu,” at the cost of making everyone’s covid status a constant, central aspect of their lives?
Why use “frequent testing” to control spread, when the tests – assuming they are not used in a way that renders them completely meaningless (such as 40+ PCR cycles) – only detect exposure, not illness or infectiousness?
How dare the GBD authors prioritize their academic preoccupations over real people’s need for human contact? Are “retired people living at home” really better off not encountering anybody but family members, and family members only outdoors? So if it’s cold or raining, grandparents shouldn’t see the grandkids at all? (Chris lives in SoCal, but where I live that would mean a lot of mandatory isolation days for the olds.)
All right, you get the idea.
I appreciate that the GBD people are not part of the world-destroying, space-lizard mindfuck. They stuck with their profession’s pre-existing nonsense rather than dump it and adopt even worse nonsense when most of their peers did so without a moment’s hesitation. But they were still WRONG.
(I’ve been wanting to get this GBD “focused protection” rant off my chest for years; thanks to Chris for the opportunity.)
If Jay Battacharya had only been a respected academic like, let’s say, Claudine Gay, it would have been more difficult to disparage it. Unlike Ms. Gay, he wasn’t able to condense his scholarly work to nine article. He apparently couldn’t distill his thoughts in less than a couple of hundred. It’s so sad.
My favorite sight is to see people even now driving alone and wearing masks. Those masks are saying, “I am a moron.”
What you write about our situation is so funny, but very sad and pathetic. The way that otherwise normal people completely abandoned all reason and rationality, without even questioning the hysteria and authoritarianism, shows that many people will gladly give up all their freedoms for some vague promise of safety and security. As the saying goes, they will have neither. Which I disapprove of, but if that's how they want to live, let them have it, good and hard, to paraphrase that most cynical writer from Baltimore, H.L. Mencken. The problem is, these people wanted me to give up my freedom, too and that's where the problem comes to a head.
My better half and I both signed the Barrington proclamation early on and would do so in a New York nano second again, just to support the rational points those brave men and women did when they wrote it. I assume our names are on some list that the CHEKA's keep on counter revolutionaries like me, you, Chris, and all your readers, for use by their Einsatzgroupen when they come to round us up for our wrong think. ( Yes, the CHEKAS were Soviets and the Einsatzgroupen were NAZI's, but as Hitler said, the two were very similar and they were all socialists together).
Thank you, as usual, for this entertaining but true gallows humor as we approach the new year. To quote Lord Protector Cromwell, we should all place our faith in God, but keep our powder dry.
Pray for the Republic!
Danny Huckabee
I walked to an empty and locked church in Easter of 2020 with my children.
Surprised to find no one else there. The world is not as it seems.
Well Chris, I hope that your Christmas was normal and filled with no disasters.
As for the narratives and whatever new batch of disease they're working up, you know they already have 30% of the population salivating to enforce masking again, and more.
Regan was accused of closing the mental hospitals... not true. He merely renamed them the CDC, Harvard, and Congress.
The middle ground, let's compromise, mistakes were made stance by the likes of Dr. Jay and others is masking the bigger issue. Based on the Infection Fatality Rate, not to mention the miraculous disappearance of the flu during peak "covid-years" has been swept under the carpet. Everyone needs to make their own health decisions, and those who were compromised would have been equally at risk during a bad flu season as they were during the plandemic. For the vast majority, no significant deviation from past protocols for getting sick were necessary. Sure, our population is generally obese, consumes a horrible diet, and is far to sedentary, but even taking that into consideration, most would have been better off with rest, liquids, and some NyQuil. Or maybe Ivermectin or Hydroxycloriquin. Of course those were framed as horse paste or another equally demonizing name, but it is correct. All of this compromising on what is appropriate lends credibility to the horrendous decisions that were enacted. Even Dr. Jay has stood by the vaccines as good and necessary for segments of the population. Until we are able to identify that the IFR never justified the steps taken, we are fucked. This wishy-washy middle ground they have trapped us in only allows the DOD, CDC, FDA and others behind this to push globalization and allow the likes of Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab to advance their agendas. The extremely low percentage of our population that understands this makes any progress unlikely. Especially when there are so many out there still wearing masks, getting boosters, and following the asinine protocols. I don't watch TV, but had dinner with friends on Christmas, and of course football was on all afternoon. Mainstream media sends out a continuous stream of messaging that is disturbing at best. If I never see that asshat Travis Kelce with two bandages on his shoulder pushing Pharma-clot-shots again it will be too soon. I am beginning to think the majority will never wake up, and it will be up to those of us not onboard to make our own path, deal with being alienated from so-called-friends, and skip doctor visits. The last four years have left me feeling disgusted by the majority of the population.