Yes. Substackers who can easily move on to other pressing issues will definitely have an audience. I run a group for political Conservatives. We meet weekly. Their concerns about COVID are over. Period. Their biggest concerns now are CBDC’s, WWIII, hyperinflation, financial depression, preparedness, the failure of the American healthcare system. There is so much going on that is new. You’ll be fine digging deep and sharing.
Yes you have a future. People are still in the dark. It takes voices like yours to pull people out of being anesthetized of “big brother is watching out for you. Did we pay serious attention to the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit in October 28-30, 2019 "Making Influenza History: The Quest for a Universal Vaccine"?? You know, where Fauci said that to get people to take flu more seriously, you have to get profit making industries in on it to “make it happen”. He described how focus groups responded to "are you scared of hiv? yes. are you scared of cancer? yes. are you scared of the flu? no." So… HOW DO YOU MAKE PEOPLE FEAR FLU? You create a bigger badder version in a lab(UNC-CH to be exact). Watching this interchange and Michael Spector, a NYT writer and teacher at Stanford add, “it would take a Disruption” of a large magnitude to get people to change their minds about flu. How do you get the whole world to take a new approach? Fauci offers the most telling of answers, “Federal Government”
And just like that we present the Covid hysteria- Creating a Problem and Providing a Money Making Solution.
On my "stories to write" list is a story about how they ramped up flu hysteria - and the push to get as many people vaccinated for the flu. This happened about 10 to 15 years ago. One thing they did was change the number of people who died from "the flu." They grouped pneumonia deaths in with flu deaths. Even when 50 percent of the population was dutifully taking their annual flu shots, the flu was the same as always. Until 2021 of course.
I wonder if we could ever find out the true incidence rate of Guillain-Barre syndrome as a side effect of the flu shot? I met two people within about a month's time, a couple of years ago, both of whom had nearly died of Guillain-Barre, both of whom had been vaccinated for flu. My uncle also contracted Guillain-Barre. When ads for the flu show up on TV or on-line, the pharma companies list "muscle weakness" as a possible side effect. The CDC website says there is a "very small risk" if you have the inactivated vaccine...my spidey sense is twitchin'...
It would be a big story for most to swallow! Seasonal flu shots are standard healthcare for many.
Personally, never had one and definitely did not see the value in taking any recent experimental options. Clearly, I’m not Big Pharma’s $target customer- Vitamin D daily is the extent of my “preventative care”. ☺️
As the marketing professors tell us, "branding" is important. So a key might be for Substackers to "brand" themselves as writers who simply challenge narratives ... and happen to write a lot about Covid topics, since that is THE most important issue of our times. But I think the most successful writers will have developed a brand that they have produce content worth reading on any and all topics of importance. I've already written about a few non-Covid topics (like inflation), but will do more of that moving forward. Still, there are so many important Covid questions that haven't been fully addressed.
I was a 30+ year subscriber to NY Times, and the shift started away from them was first with UnHerd.com out of the UK. They got lost in the post-Covid era, so I stopped when Substack took "their lane" - for me.
This week, I upgraded to "Founder" at The Free Press - Bari Weiss. They seem to truly present BOTH sides of issues, you know, LIKE REAL JOURNALIST!! I also support medical/scientist that give me REAL information.
My suggestion is, find a group/theme to go to the next level. I am not against you, and you can see that I pay for a bunch of content.
If we could end Big Pharma advertising I believe some media outlets would listen to us, conduct research etc.
But Pharma pours HUGE $$$ in media coffers. They won’t bite the hands that feed them.
We ended cigarette advertising; now we must end Pharma advertising.
I’ve read where these companies spend far more on advertising than on research.
Wonder why some SEC coaches did radio/tv spots? A mystery for me....then I see the “sponsors” on banners at courts & stadiums...... Remember those tents set up on game days where it was soooo convenient to drop by & get a shot?
College conferences are beholden to Pharma! What a racket.
Yep, they buy off all possible critics. Getting the colleges on board (and the sports conferences which are the colleges) was very important. As far as I am aware, I'm the only journalist in America who wrote a big story about Pfizer becoming a "corporate sponsor" of the SEC.
Thank you. Most of these issues tie in together ... you are right "follow the money." And they are running out of $. Or the magic printing press isn't going to be able to print enough in the future to pay all the bills that are coming.
I make that point all the time, Bill. But I even think that magic printing tree is not going to be able to produce enough money in the future. Or: They'll ramp it up to hyper speed, which will produce hyperinflation.
I think they'll keep printing AND roll-out the digital currencies with the hope of banning all or most cash. They can't take our cash ... and this pisses them off.
I may have said it here before but I have been calling attention to the nightly news being sponsored by big pharma for many years. I have said they would never cover anything bad on pharma and covid proved me right. It is only the citizens stepping up now that is exposing them. Before the substack I was following Dan Bongino, Amazing Polly and others who could see thru the lies during Trumps presidency. You are right about things to come and digital currency is a fight we can't lose.
If the war holds off, I would vote for Climate Changers driving us back a century or too with the electric car racket leading the way. I just can't understand how folks cannot see the damage from mining and processing that EV's are responsible for. So many anti-environment steps lead up to driving an EV. I guess they think when you plug in an EV, the power comes from the electric plant.
I could write a book on the Climate Change lies and scams. That's obviously THE thing for our rulers and has been for decades. They are not backing down. The "vaccine passports" got us a lot closer to the "digital control" and social credit goals they want to achieve.
I'm so perturbed by these new expensive light bulbs I HAVE to buy ... that don't put out any light and don't last nearly as long as they said they would.
Nothing wrong with a good Edison light bulb. The compact fluorescent was just one of many goalposts moved until they have all the wifi meters and thermostats in place so we can be shut down remotely and the electric car won't charge. And you could add to that all the variations of better gas cans coming from CARB that spread across the country.
Sweet of you address SteelJ! It’s important for your readers to feel we have a voice in the darkness too!
You wrote:
“I also think other issues - just as potentially calamitous or important - are going to increasingly reveal themselves and engage the interests of the same readers who’ve been so interested in Covid stories.”
I believe your thoughtful words will continue to need to be seen and understood through your writing, as you continue to shine a light on the “riveting drama to come” because as we are promised:
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.”
SteelJ made some great points. I really enjoyed our dialogue thread. As far as I can tell, we think exactly the same about most things. He ought to start a Substack!
I really enjoyed it too! You're already writing what needs to be written so I can relax. We SHOULD think the same, otherwise one of us would have to be wrong! Kidding of course, but when you think about it, people should agree a lot more. If different people are looking at the same evidence and being as objective as they can, why would their conclusions be different? At least it seems like it should work that way.
You're right, there's no shortage of material. We'll all be counting on Substack.
Made me smile to see that it did! A good one, as always. I agree war, economic collapse, digital currency, and others can be more destructive than COVID. But there's something about COVID that's particularly riveting to many. I think the open southern border is a hugely important story. But when Tucker starts on it, I always fast forward all the way through. I just don't want to watch the coverage, it seems totally pointless. Same with other issues that are as big or bigger than COVID. I doubt if I'm unique that way. However, even if I'm right and COVID draws readers disproportionately to its importance, the pool you're drawing from is likely to grow. That might more than offset the waning of the most polarizing issue I've ever seen. And like you say, COVID might have some blockbuster stories coming.
Once a group, any group in power gains a level of control, they are hard pressed to relinquish such power.
Covid showed those in power what populations would endure.
It's my opinion that digital id's, digital money and 15 minute cities are the next wave.
I can't say what you all would be able to stomach, but those in power are going to have to kill or maim me before I will allow them to take away the freedom my father fought for against the Nazis in WWII.
The ramifications of the Covid™️ debacle will not be fully known, even to those of us who recognize the scam, for a very long time. And meanwhile, as others have pointed out, there are related civil liberties and individual freedom concerns that seem to be revving up - the Climate, digital currencies, health freedom, do we really need 97 genders, and so much more. Keep writing! I’m a new subscriber, but I’ve seen you in the comments sections of other Stacks.
Guaranteed!! As long as the media continues to execute “ the narrative”, as long as Social media does the censoring of any counter narrative at the behest of the Government and as long as people with a scintilla of integrity and common sense continue to be outraged by all this corruption and abuse of power... Substack will continue to be a larger forum for the actual honest to goodness “ unadulterated “ TRUTH. And the more the mainstream media and politicians demean and discredit “ Y’ALL”, the more we need to stay the course. Wasserman Schulz’s treatment of Matt Taibbi tells you everything you need to know ... it’s not about us or our rights, it’s about THEM.
They don't care if a global nuclear war would leave them “controlling” only an apocalyptic dystopian landscape. They are psychopaths. If worse comes to worst, they would rather blow up the whole planet, even if it means they have to blow up themselves as well, but in their mind, that would still be better than giving up their power and control. This is illogical, but that's how psychopaths think.
And substack will at some point be forced to comply with some kind of censorship rules because "misinformation". So we'll have to move to another form of communication. How about an old fashioned typewriter and a mechanical letter copying press?
I've always thought: At some point they are going to come after Substack and its writers. We're starting to reach too many people and have too much of an influence.
There was no outrage over CoVid; there still isn’t. Strikers in Britain are ‘outraged’ that inflation - that their passivity caused - means their wages buy less. The strikers are public,service workers whose jobs were secure and who got paid during the lockdowns. In France millions are out having a tantrum ‘outraged’ because their welfare is being cut, because the State is bankrupt. The media and public is ‘outraged’ that the energy companies are making ‘huge profits’ whilst energy prices have soared, but they are not ‘outraged’ at the Govt and its policies that caused this, or ‘outraged’ that soon we probably will have no energy. Had there been Covid ‘outrage’ we would have been reading about it and commenting in the MSM. Substack fills a gap in the market, a source of unfiltered, information and critique of the official line. It is a refuge for those who know there is more to what we are being told by officialdom, who know we are being deceived and want a trustworthy, free source of information and dialogue. Global warming - or Govt policies and the machinations of their puppet master, should be causing outrage but it isn’t. The MSM didn’t do anything different during the Fakedemic that it hadn’t been doing for years on other issues, particularly ‘climate change’, so substack will remain the go-to source of for the minority (sadly) who don’t like being conned and take comfort from the other voices here, that they are not alone.
Yes. Substackers who can easily move on to other pressing issues will definitely have an audience. I run a group for political Conservatives. We meet weekly. Their concerns about COVID are over. Period. Their biggest concerns now are CBDC’s, WWIII, hyperinflation, financial depression, preparedness, the failure of the American healthcare system. There is so much going on that is new. You’ll be fine digging deep and sharing.
Yes you have a future. People are still in the dark. It takes voices like yours to pull people out of being anesthetized of “big brother is watching out for you. Did we pay serious attention to the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit in October 28-30, 2019 "Making Influenza History: The Quest for a Universal Vaccine"?? You know, where Fauci said that to get people to take flu more seriously, you have to get profit making industries in on it to “make it happen”. He described how focus groups responded to "are you scared of hiv? yes. are you scared of cancer? yes. are you scared of the flu? no." So… HOW DO YOU MAKE PEOPLE FEAR FLU? You create a bigger badder version in a lab(UNC-CH to be exact). Watching this interchange and Michael Spector, a NYT writer and teacher at Stanford add, “it would take a Disruption” of a large magnitude to get people to change their minds about flu. How do you get the whole world to take a new approach? Fauci offers the most telling of answers, “Federal Government”
And just like that we present the Covid hysteria- Creating a Problem and Providing a Money Making Solution.
On my "stories to write" list is a story about how they ramped up flu hysteria - and the push to get as many people vaccinated for the flu. This happened about 10 to 15 years ago. One thing they did was change the number of people who died from "the flu." They grouped pneumonia deaths in with flu deaths. Even when 50 percent of the population was dutifully taking their annual flu shots, the flu was the same as always. Until 2021 of course.
I wonder if we could ever find out the true incidence rate of Guillain-Barre syndrome as a side effect of the flu shot? I met two people within about a month's time, a couple of years ago, both of whom had nearly died of Guillain-Barre, both of whom had been vaccinated for flu. My uncle also contracted Guillain-Barre. When ads for the flu show up on TV or on-line, the pharma companies list "muscle weakness" as a possible side effect. The CDC website says there is a "very small risk" if you have the inactivated vaccine...my spidey sense is twitchin'...
It would be a big story for most to swallow! Seasonal flu shots are standard healthcare for many.
Personally, never had one and definitely did not see the value in taking any recent experimental options. Clearly, I’m not Big Pharma’s $target customer- Vitamin D daily is the extent of my “preventative care”. ☺️
I think you’re dead right. Keep writing!
The stories "missed" by the MSM would have made for multiple award-winning stories in previous years.
There's no shortage of stuff to write about, even if we go about it in our own unique ways.
As the marketing professors tell us, "branding" is important. So a key might be for Substackers to "brand" themselves as writers who simply challenge narratives ... and happen to write a lot about Covid topics, since that is THE most important issue of our times. But I think the most successful writers will have developed a brand that they have produce content worth reading on any and all topics of importance. I've already written about a few non-Covid topics (like inflation), but will do more of that moving forward. Still, there are so many important Covid questions that haven't been fully addressed.
"Variety is the Spice of Life."
I was a 30+ year subscriber to NY Times, and the shift started away from them was first with UnHerd.com out of the UK. They got lost in the post-Covid era, so I stopped when Substack took "their lane" - for me.
This week, I upgraded to "Founder" at The Free Press - Bari Weiss. They seem to truly present BOTH sides of issues, you know, LIKE REAL JOURNALIST!! I also support medical/scientist that give me REAL information.
My suggestion is, find a group/theme to go to the next level. I am not against you, and you can see that I pay for a bunch of content.
If we could end Big Pharma advertising I believe some media outlets would listen to us, conduct research etc.
But Pharma pours HUGE $$$ in media coffers. They won’t bite the hands that feed them.
We ended cigarette advertising; now we must end Pharma advertising.
I’ve read where these companies spend far more on advertising than on research.
Wonder why some SEC coaches did radio/tv spots? A mystery for me....then I see the “sponsors” on banners at courts & stadiums...... Remember those tents set up on game days where it was soooo convenient to drop by & get a shot?
College conferences are beholden to Pharma! What a racket.
Yep, they buy off all possible critics. Getting the colleges on board (and the sports conferences which are the colleges) was very important. As far as I am aware, I'm the only journalist in America who wrote a big story about Pfizer becoming a "corporate sponsor" of the SEC.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-southeastern-conference-is-now
I was puzzled at first.... follow the $$$ always.
I’ll follow you as long as you’re here!
Thank you. Most of these issues tie in together ... you are right "follow the money." And they are running out of $. Or the magic printing press isn't going to be able to print enough in the future to pay all the bills that are coming.
The Powers That Be don't need a magic printing press - they have the "Money Trees" planted in the back yard of all the Federal Reverse Banks!
I make that point all the time, Bill. But I even think that magic printing tree is not going to be able to produce enough money in the future. Or: They'll ramp it up to hyper speed, which will produce hyperinflation.
I think they'll keep printing AND roll-out the digital currencies with the hope of banning all or most cash. They can't take our cash ... and this pisses them off.
I may have said it here before but I have been calling attention to the nightly news being sponsored by big pharma for many years. I have said they would never cover anything bad on pharma and covid proved me right. It is only the citizens stepping up now that is exposing them. Before the substack I was following Dan Bongino, Amazing Polly and others who could see thru the lies during Trumps presidency. You are right about things to come and digital currency is a fight we can't lose.
If the war holds off, I would vote for Climate Changers driving us back a century or too with the electric car racket leading the way. I just can't understand how folks cannot see the damage from mining and processing that EV's are responsible for. So many anti-environment steps lead up to driving an EV. I guess they think when you plug in an EV, the power comes from the electric plant.
I could write a book on the Climate Change lies and scams. That's obviously THE thing for our rulers and has been for decades. They are not backing down. The "vaccine passports" got us a lot closer to the "digital control" and social credit goals they want to achieve.
I'm so perturbed by these new expensive light bulbs I HAVE to buy ... that don't put out any light and don't last nearly as long as they said they would.
Nothing wrong with a good Edison light bulb. The compact fluorescent was just one of many goalposts moved until they have all the wifi meters and thermostats in place so we can be shut down remotely and the electric car won't charge. And you could add to that all the variations of better gas cans coming from CARB that spread across the country.
No, they’re good with whale killing off shore wind turbines to provide the power !
Sweet of you address SteelJ! It’s important for your readers to feel we have a voice in the darkness too!
You wrote:
“I also think other issues - just as potentially calamitous or important - are going to increasingly reveal themselves and engage the interests of the same readers who’ve been so interested in Covid stories.”
I believe your thoughtful words will continue to need to be seen and understood through your writing, as you continue to shine a light on the “riveting drama to come” because as we are promised:
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.”
Luke 8:17
SteelJ made some great points. I really enjoyed our dialogue thread. As far as I can tell, we think exactly the same about most things. He ought to start a Substack!
I really enjoyed it too! You're already writing what needs to be written so I can relax. We SHOULD think the same, otherwise one of us would have to be wrong! Kidding of course, but when you think about it, people should agree a lot more. If different people are looking at the same evidence and being as objective as they can, why would their conclusions be different? At least it seems like it should work that way.
You're right, there's no shortage of material. We'll all be counting on Substack.
Logical point there. You didn't know your post inspired a story. Thanks!
Made me smile to see that it did! A good one, as always. I agree war, economic collapse, digital currency, and others can be more destructive than COVID. But there's something about COVID that's particularly riveting to many. I think the open southern border is a hugely important story. But when Tucker starts on it, I always fast forward all the way through. I just don't want to watch the coverage, it seems totally pointless. Same with other issues that are as big or bigger than COVID. I doubt if I'm unique that way. However, even if I'm right and COVID draws readers disproportionately to its importance, the pool you're drawing from is likely to grow. That might more than offset the waning of the most polarizing issue I've ever seen. And like you say, COVID might have some blockbuster stories coming.
Once a group, any group in power gains a level of control, they are hard pressed to relinquish such power.
Covid showed those in power what populations would endure.
It's my opinion that digital id's, digital money and 15 minute cities are the next wave.
I can't say what you all would be able to stomach, but those in power are going to have to kill or maim me before I will allow them to take away the freedom my father fought for against the Nazis in WWII.
Junk silver.
Buy now
The ramifications of the Covid™️ debacle will not be fully known, even to those of us who recognize the scam, for a very long time. And meanwhile, as others have pointed out, there are related civil liberties and individual freedom concerns that seem to be revving up - the Climate, digital currencies, health freedom, do we really need 97 genders, and so much more. Keep writing! I’m a new subscriber, but I’ve seen you in the comments sections of other Stacks.
Guaranteed!! As long as the media continues to execute “ the narrative”, as long as Social media does the censoring of any counter narrative at the behest of the Government and as long as people with a scintilla of integrity and common sense continue to be outraged by all this corruption and abuse of power... Substack will continue to be a larger forum for the actual honest to goodness “ unadulterated “ TRUTH. And the more the mainstream media and politicians demean and discredit “ Y’ALL”, the more we need to stay the course. Wasserman Schulz’s treatment of Matt Taibbi tells you everything you need to know ... it’s not about us or our rights, it’s about THEM.
They don't care if a global nuclear war would leave them “controlling” only an apocalyptic dystopian landscape. They are psychopaths. If worse comes to worst, they would rather blow up the whole planet, even if it means they have to blow up themselves as well, but in their mind, that would still be better than giving up their power and control. This is illogical, but that's how psychopaths think.
And substack will at some point be forced to comply with some kind of censorship rules because "misinformation". So we'll have to move to another form of communication. How about an old fashioned typewriter and a mechanical letter copying press?
I've always thought: At some point they are going to come after Substack and its writers. We're starting to reach too many people and have too much of an influence.
And your biggest offense?? Disagreeing with “ them.” What country is this?
Your subtitle took the words I was about to post!
There was no outrage over CoVid; there still isn’t. Strikers in Britain are ‘outraged’ that inflation - that their passivity caused - means their wages buy less. The strikers are public,service workers whose jobs were secure and who got paid during the lockdowns. In France millions are out having a tantrum ‘outraged’ because their welfare is being cut, because the State is bankrupt. The media and public is ‘outraged’ that the energy companies are making ‘huge profits’ whilst energy prices have soared, but they are not ‘outraged’ at the Govt and its policies that caused this, or ‘outraged’ that soon we probably will have no energy. Had there been Covid ‘outrage’ we would have been reading about it and commenting in the MSM. Substack fills a gap in the market, a source of unfiltered, information and critique of the official line. It is a refuge for those who know there is more to what we are being told by officialdom, who know we are being deceived and want a trustworthy, free source of information and dialogue. Global warming - or Govt policies and the machinations of their puppet master, should be causing outrage but it isn’t. The MSM didn’t do anything different during the Fakedemic that it hadn’t been doing for years on other issues, particularly ‘climate change’, so substack will remain the go-to source of for the minority (sadly) who don’t like being conned and take comfort from the other voices here, that they are not alone.
Thanks, John. Excellent post.