Jul 15, 2022·edited Jul 15, 2022Liked by Chris Bray
When I was in school, the smartest kids went into medicine. Not having much in-depth contact with doctors over the years (thank God), my trust in them remained very high until the covid fiasco tore back the curtain and revealed that those practicing the "art" of medicine were mostly just paint-by-numbers hacks regurgitating whatever guidelines the thoroughly corrupt CDC and AMA were cobbling together at Big Pharma's behest. Independent thought and analysis were as rare as individuals with integrity in DC.
Cheap shot aside, Canadian hero immunologist Dr. Byram Bridle revealed that medical students receive a grand total of 5-7 lectures (iirc) on virology. That explains a lot. Never known for their humility, doctors bluffed expertise in this subject during the pandemic rather than admit a tenuous grasp of vaccines and viruses. Millions were harmed taking their advice and injecting poison into their bodies.
Trust in institutions is collapsing. This is a very dangerous time in American history.
The use of the singular--"vaccine"--is noteworthy, given that Cedars-Sinai officials know there are dozens of covid vaccines. It is simpler to worship a single idol.
Don't bother coming armed with facts and evidence in the middle of a hysteria. For example, the evidence masks and lockdowns not only didn't work but were catastrophic is indisputable and non-controversial. Yet, officials will try and push for them despite the reality and facts of their failures. The Science (TM) and The Experts (TM) who cackle about such nonsense are ideologues.
Reason and logic are absent and there's not much we can do about it but keep speaking the truth and reaching those who are not clueless asses easily manipulated by fear and superstition.
Mattias Desmet, the Belgiain Psychology Professor (mass formation), is especially good on this “science” stuff. He points out that science used to be the upstarts disrupting the status quo and so could seek truth. But as a discourse (religion, science whatever) becomes dominant it then inexorably becomes corrupted by power; power seeks it out, inhabits it, and corrupts it. The Zuby - Desmet podcast on this is pretty good.
One does not believe science; one tests it. Likewise, one does not 'stand by' science: that implies a motionless intransigence, an adamantine certitude that resists all questions, arguments, and evidence. One is supposed to move with science: when the evidence changes, or when a more powerful explanatory framework is developed, one updates one's model of the world by abandoning the obsolete model.
Only a committee of administrators - C students who majored in soft subjects with lax standards - could have come up with a slogan that violates the entire spirit of science in such an obvious way.
These people are utter clowns. It's no accident that the best and brightest are starting to abandon the converged institutions.
A perfectly drawn parallel Sir! There is indeed a significant religious component to Covidism. We see them chanting the mantras, and endlessly repeating the creed. Heretics are, literally, being excommunicated. We may soon see them burned at the stake. Well written!
Outside of public health, there is no group that has lost as much credibility over the past 2 years as health care providers. Quite simply, they have revealed themselves to be devoid of critical thinking skills and any real courage. Another soggy corporate rent-seeker who will happily line their pockets with stolen money. Our professional classes have become systemically corrupt and incompetent.
Unvaxxed and just had covid this week. I was over it in 24 hrs. Stayed home an extra day just to be safe. So, I lost 2 days of work. My boss, double vaxxed and boosted, has been out all week.
The covidian nonsense appears to be more a problem with Public Health Authorities than a general issue with the health care industry. The doctors just happen to go to the same church as the PHAs. The entire public health bureaucracy and its practitioners need to be burned at the stake. Why does it even exist? It’s very purpose is antithetical to liberty.
My sister, who has a doctorate in literature and gender studies and works in academia, recently proclaimed that she would have gone into public health if she was to do it over again. Burn it down.
Gotta wonder if Pfizer paid for those banners, and then paid the city of Los Angeles to install them, and, most importantly, paid Cedars Sinai to use their name.
The messaging always seems to have the same origin. Darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the lobbyists from Pfizer spoke to the politicians and breathed lots of cash into their campaigns. And the politicians saw that it was good.
What a waste of lampposts.
When I was in school, the smartest kids went into medicine. Not having much in-depth contact with doctors over the years (thank God), my trust in them remained very high until the covid fiasco tore back the curtain and revealed that those practicing the "art" of medicine were mostly just paint-by-numbers hacks regurgitating whatever guidelines the thoroughly corrupt CDC and AMA were cobbling together at Big Pharma's behest. Independent thought and analysis were as rare as individuals with integrity in DC.
Cheap shot aside, Canadian hero immunologist Dr. Byram Bridle revealed that medical students receive a grand total of 5-7 lectures (iirc) on virology. That explains a lot. Never known for their humility, doctors bluffed expertise in this subject during the pandemic rather than admit a tenuous grasp of vaccines and viruses. Millions were harmed taking their advice and injecting poison into their bodies.
Trust in institutions is collapsing. This is a very dangerous time in American history.
The use of the singular--"vaccine"--is noteworthy, given that Cedars-Sinai officials know there are dozens of covid vaccines. It is simpler to worship a single idol.
The whole Covid thing has become performative. I got an email from my synagogue about an event this past week with the admonition:
“Show your consideration for others and wear the mask.”
Not, “protect yourself and others.” Not, “a mask.”
I found it *very* creepy.
Don't bother coming armed with facts and evidence in the middle of a hysteria. For example, the evidence masks and lockdowns not only didn't work but were catastrophic is indisputable and non-controversial. Yet, officials will try and push for them despite the reality and facts of their failures. The Science (TM) and The Experts (TM) who cackle about such nonsense are ideologues.
Reason and logic are absent and there's not much we can do about it but keep speaking the truth and reaching those who are not clueless asses easily manipulated by fear and superstition.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
- Voltaire
No amount of rational argument will disabuse the faithful of their hard fought ignorance. Are you going to believe St. Fauci or your lyin’ eyes?
Excellent essay.
Mattias Desmet, the Belgiain Psychology Professor (mass formation), is especially good on this “science” stuff. He points out that science used to be the upstarts disrupting the status quo and so could seek truth. But as a discourse (religion, science whatever) becomes dominant it then inexorably becomes corrupted by power; power seeks it out, inhabits it, and corrupts it. The Zuby - Desmet podcast on this is pretty good.
One does not believe science; one tests it. Likewise, one does not 'stand by' science: that implies a motionless intransigence, an adamantine certitude that resists all questions, arguments, and evidence. One is supposed to move with science: when the evidence changes, or when a more powerful explanatory framework is developed, one updates one's model of the world by abandoning the obsolete model.
Only a committee of administrators - C students who majored in soft subjects with lax standards - could have come up with a slogan that violates the entire spirit of science in such an obvious way.
These people are utter clowns. It's no accident that the best and brightest are starting to abandon the converged institutions.
A perfectly drawn parallel Sir! There is indeed a significant religious component to Covidism. We see them chanting the mantras, and endlessly repeating the creed. Heretics are, literally, being excommunicated. We may soon see them burned at the stake. Well written!
Outside of public health, there is no group that has lost as much credibility over the past 2 years as health care providers. Quite simply, they have revealed themselves to be devoid of critical thinking skills and any real courage. Another soggy corporate rent-seeker who will happily line their pockets with stolen money. Our professional classes have become systemically corrupt and incompetent.
Unvaxxed and just had covid this week. I was over it in 24 hrs. Stayed home an extra day just to be safe. So, I lost 2 days of work. My boss, double vaxxed and boosted, has been out all week.
The signs of signtists and signtism. More Manchurian useful idiots.
That is simply amazing. Wow. Those will be collector items someday, like the old Lucky Strike ads.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Advertisement-20-679-physicians-say-LUCKIES-are-less-irritating_fig2_7338282
The covidian nonsense appears to be more a problem with Public Health Authorities than a general issue with the health care industry. The doctors just happen to go to the same church as the PHAs. The entire public health bureaucracy and its practitioners need to be burned at the stake. Why does it even exist? It’s very purpose is antithetical to liberty.
My sister, who has a doctorate in literature and gender studies and works in academia, recently proclaimed that she would have gone into public health if she was to do it over again. Burn it down.
Chris, you have a gift, and you are using it wisely.
Gotta wonder if Pfizer paid for those banners, and then paid the city of Los Angeles to install them, and, most importantly, paid Cedars Sinai to use their name.
The messaging always seems to have the same origin. Darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the lobbyists from Pfizer spoke to the politicians and breathed lots of cash into their campaigns. And the politicians saw that it was good.