In this article, I write that a healthy young person has a greater chance of being struck by lightning than dying from Covid. This statement is not hyperbole or embellishment. I think it's true. I researched mortality risks of "healthy" children (0 to 17) in the UK in the first year of the pandemic and concluded that their risk of dying from Covid in the first 12 months of the pandemic was about 1 in 2 million. Per another research project, I found that the risk of a random person in America being struck by lightning is about 1 in 700,000 in a 12-month period.
Here's a story I wrote about the (ignored) UK children's mortality study. All I did was subtract from the children's population that did not have prior "life-altering" medical conditions.
I don't think this is right. The chance of being struck twice in the same 12 month period is something like 1 out of 700,000^2 (squared), which is 1 out of 490 billion. In actuality, the odds are probably a bit better - some kids live on mountains or play golf or whatever... But not 1 in 2 million better.
As a math person, thanks for correcting this so I don't have to. Your odds are correct, if it were totally random, and as you say, it's not random, which changes the odds.
Every step of the way was based on deep state fraud. When the pandemic was announced and the eua begun, about .00005% of the world population was affected. Even that number was to dubious at best. The disease could never be traced back to a cause by a virus. For the millionth time, if it was a virus that caused disease, with trillions and trillions of viruses in our body, we'd all be dead. The cause of death and disease was never a germ. The treatment was often the cause of much if not most of the disease and death. Finally, the whole game from beginning to never ending was wrought with fear and fraud. Fool me once? How about fool me a thousand times.
Great article Bill. You hit the nail on the head perfectly.
I still am amazed at my brother and sisters who still to this day don’t get it even after telling them very early on when I had three old work mates from the same company die within days of getting the first shot right after the roll out. No questions,no curiosity, only response was stop send us information on the vaccines. Brother brag’s about getting shots and boosters to travel. Sister’s have had adverse events with one having on going heart issues. Still no clue. They trust the medical “so called”experts.
I think I know why. They all have multiple college degrees and or Masters degrees and graduated with honors and or grade points of 3.5 or better. Me? Graduated in 5 years with a 2.2 in Business Management and Marketing.
I love my siblings and don’t want to see them or anyone hurt, but come on people. WAKE UP!!!
The public has to take some (a lot) of the blame here. We let these dumb leaders or sociopaths achieve complete control of our society. They couldn't have gotten to the positions they've obtained without too many of the masses going along ... and "following" these dangerous people.
After I got out of the military, I went to a Jr. college for a semester and then went to Montana St U. for two years and quit. About 20 years later I got a B.A. in history from Metropolitan State College in Denver, CO because I wanted to finish and I liked history. I'm just a retired claim staker. Even I knew everything about the injections was a lie, a fraud and a globohomo reptilian attempt to kill and control.
You don't know the half of it. My mom's nursing home in Toronto is a non-profit facility funded by the government and run by community board and family council. Yet it MANDATED hand disinfection, antigen test, mask, and health history screening for every visitor and employee every time we enter, while even Health Canada itself announced that gene jabs, testing, masking and screening are no longer needed for everyone because of "Covid equilibrium". The province never passed these mandates, but we still have the Emergency Act in place with no Emergency. How can a publicly funded long term care facility with no democratic legislative authority mandate these things with threat of denying entry? And acquire police power to charge refuseniks with criminal trespass if they refuse? Visitors must now complete self-screening via online portal to OneAccess (private data collection corp) with personal ID and health information regarding symptoms, whereabouts and recent travel history; we must conduct self-testing with useless rapid antigen test that cannot even react to the current Omicron strain, but we are not given safety shield or gloves to protect against spill or splash from the corrosive reagent chemical we must use. Anyone who refuses to mask up, disinfect with carcinogenic sanitizer, answer the privacy-invading questions and accept risk of chemical burns from the test kit, will not be permitted entry.
Did that in order to get in to care for my mother despite not having two gene jabs. The imposed mandate for testing and screening came about because I was ignoring the ridiculous rule to wear N95 or face shield instead of loose surgical mask, that they made up to punish me for challenging them on refusing me admittance for three years because I was not 'fully vaccinated'.
Aliss, frequently I say to my husband : Your mother did us a favour by dying when she did.
She was in a nursing home in London and we live in Toronto - a long drive sometimes lasting for 3 hours depending on traffic; my husband never missed a weekend visiting for those 4 long years. She had a lot of medical issues at that time , supra nuclear palsy , following years of RA treatments that started in her 40 's . I knew her husband was speaking for her because I had thought her mind was like swiss cheese and somehow he was covering it up. It was a brutal 4 years with her personality change and I think my father in law gave up looking after her because there was no known cure and her medications would keep her going for years( he died of cancer) . I do know the nursing home, prior the years of a virus debacle , would frequently be shut down because of a flu outbreak - that's what it was called in those days . All the residents would get something called Tamiflu - that the government stockpiled and based on the number of times the clients got it, I think it was in their food to use it up! We never had a flu injection and never caught a thing in the years we were going there -she died in 2018 . It would have been a disaster to have to see her after the vaccine roll out and I believe we dodged a bullet based on the nightmare for you . Is your mother still alive and if so what are the protocols now since we have no appetite here to look into how this virus was handled?
I love this. It mirrors what I worry about - sounding like I think I'm so goddamn smart. I try to remember to add the same caveats you did - I'm not that smart, this shit is obvious. Most everybody else is just that stupid. And - it's not just me, I may be among a small minority, but still millions in this country alone see everything I do just as clearly. We aren't that great, there is simply something fundamentally very wrong with most everyone else.
Way, way back when I was a teen in the 60's, the figure some like-minded people and I kicked around was 3% of people are capable and willing to see things as they are. Just an estimate of course, but it seemed about right, and still does.
I also worried about coming across as arrogant or smarter-than-thou .... so I feel better that you got the point we're both making - it's just that everyone else is so surprisingly ignorant.
I still wonder how so many experts could be wrong about EVERYTHING. Statistically, they should have been right about a few things ... but they weren't.
I do have all the credentials but was appalled by all the (seemingly) obvious lies and misdirections from the beginning. I tried desperately to convince my kids (now 18 and 20) to reconsider what they were being told, but failed. There were no “authoritative” sources to support my contentions, and my (very intelligent) son said “what makes you think you’re so much smarter than all these experts?” I didn’t have enough info then to say it’s not about smarts, but rather honesty. When the “incentives” turned into coercion, there could be no doubt.
Honestly I didn’t have an answer for him. They both got injected.
Sorry to hear about your kids' attitude toward your wisdom. I agree with Bill Rice though, it is definitely about smarts. People who can't figure out obvious truths from evidence right in front of them are not smart, end of story. "Scientific" consensus and conventional wisdom is off the rails all the time, that's nothing new. I would try to hammer that home, with examples like dietary advice to eat rice cakes and avoid eggs. For decades you were a heretic to say dietary fat might be better than refined carbs. Many, many examples exist. My kid understands that, and didn't get jabbed. But it's largely luck, sometimes there is nothing you can do but try.
Mrs. Gump reduced the intelligence question to its core part: "Stupid is as Stupid does."
How can someone be "intelligent" if they believe ridiculous things? Or: You continue to believe nonsensical assertions even after the evidence is overwhelming?
If someone consistently and repeatedly believes non-plausible assertions, this provides even more evidence this person is not very bright.
The corollary to this is that people who consistently pick up on falsehoods before others might be ... smarter than most other people. But I guess it's politically incorrect to point this out.
I have been struck by the fact that many contrarians who have been proven to be right are not often asked to be on the interview shows (Ron Paul comes immediately to mind). The people who have repeatedly made claims that were spectacularly wrong experience little or no consequences from their embarrassing batting averages.
As soon as Covid was monetized and politicized, people stopped being willing to reasonably discuss what the FACTS were. Add constant fear porn on every main stream media channel, fraudulent infection rates and falsified death counts, authoritarian and heavy-handed statewide mandates in most parts of the country/world and mass hysteria set in. And then there's pride. Those people in power who made the wrong decisions, believed the wrong "data", and created more problems than they solved are probably too prideful to admit ever being wrong. I don't think I'll ever trust the medical community/"experts" again...
I'm not dumb but I did buy the fear porn they circulated and got 1 jab, peer and family pressure won out... now I know not to believe the bs on this or the climate bs
There were thousands of brave experts that were speaking out (eg The Great Barrington Declaration) ... but the censorship industrial complex was running full steam. Just like it does now for the Climate Crisis hoax.
I'm still trying to figure out how seriously to take people like Malone, McCullough, Kirsch, and Malhotra who eventually woke up but thought getting the jab was a good idea. And the 3 doctors were part of the system and should know exactly how corrupt it is. I gotta come down on the side of "not very", although I appreciate their work greatly.
People who were briefly fooled often become the most motivated (pissed off) and effective warriors for "getting" the people who tried to fool them. Tucker Carlson once backed all the "interventions" in the Mideast and today he's one of the most forceful and influential critics of the "Neo-con" movement.
I keep waiting for one family member who lost a child to the vaccines to become the leader of this fight. People who lost children to fraud and lies also often become the greatest advocates for bringing justice to the guilty. But this hasn't happened yet with Covid. Although some family members are trying - they are just ignored and censored.
Good points. But, I gotta think if you fall for an obvious scam once, you're simply that type person, and can't be relied upon to spot the next one. We need them though, there aren't nearly enough of us without the converts. Probably still not enough even with them. I've had similar thoughts to yours, we need more movers and shakers to suffer tremendous personal loss for the narrative to flip.
I love it! To me, it was common sense from Day One. My experience being having abandoned annual flu shots long ago. They never delivered the advertised efficacy. So, the COVID vax , I mean glorified flu shot, didn’t have my full support. Then Fauci started in with scare tactics that did not make SCIENTIFIC sense. Can we take turns being valedictorians?? Some of the smartest people I know completely lost their mental faculties!! You could caugh and they’d run out of a room! 😂😂😂😂
My husband’s dr pressed him to take the pneumonia vax. Why my husband refused, he asked why. My husband explained that he had done the research and it had mercury in it. The dr told his assistant to get the insert and bring it to him. She did, the insert (which he had never read) did show mercury as an ingredient. He told his assistant to send them all back to the manufacturer with a letter stating that he would no longer give those shots due to the ingredients.
However, the insert for the Covid vax was totally blank. A HUGE piece of paper, folded exactly as all inserts on all other meds, which, unfolded, reveal a blank.
Doctors, hospitals, hospital administrators, nurses all WELL paid for each and every lockstep they took.
I was really surprised when two good friends got it the first day it was offered here. Most of us were scared and floundering, but come on.....you don't just jump on a horse if you know very little about how to ride.
These people DID have brains - they are now in some la la land and have past the point of no return. They are still stunned I never took it. It has truly damaged the friendships.
A few days ago, a dunce on Twitter proclaimed his love and admiration for Tony Fauci. I was dumbfounded by this display of stupidity, but I was even more astounded by the huge number of imbeciles who seconded his declaration. It was like something out of North Korea. These Fauci devotees are in a cult.
Depressing, isn't it? Sometimes I'll scroll through the comments on an article in a left-leaning site and get total clarity on why the world is as it is.
I wrote a Substack article titled "It pays to read the Reader Comments." But I didn't make your excellent point. You can also learn how the other side thinks.
BTW, my article on "Reader Comments" ... got a ton of reader comments!
On the one hand...it’s not possible that they are this stupid. It simply cannot be. On the other hand...there is still more than one person driving around solo rocking a mask, and playing the Covid can only get me while I’m standing in a restaurant game. So....I give up.
A few months ago I overheard a virtual meeting of my wife and her colleagues. They were discussing whether masks should still be worn as many patients were refusing to wear them. A few of the meeting attendees were complainig about wearing masks but most seemingly had no opinion or were uncomfortable voicing it. The consensus was that more guidance should be sought. Bear in mind that my wife's co-workers are all highly paid health care proffessionals I was amazed that no one simply refused to wear the mask. They are still having to mask up all day every day due to "policy". It's often not stupidity or evil intent that drives bad decisions just cowardly compliance by people who have forgotten how to think and stand up for themselves and know that to do so will carry negative carreer consequences.
The ability of most to ignore easily observable reality and unquestionably believe what they are being told has been simply amazing, but nothing new I’m afraid. History is littered with tragedy stemming from the same blind allegiance to authority. Here it comes again...
Great article, new follower! I have to say that I am immensely proud of the fact that I didn’t fall for the plandemic from day one. I spent hours and hours reading and researching, questioning their narratives and none of it added up. Viruses did not all of a sudden behave in ways they never had before. My family (a rather large group) had only 4 who did not listen and succumbed to the pressure, every one of which have gotten infected multiple times. The rest of my family, all my surrounding neighbors, and my intimate circle of friends immediately began one of the prophylactic protocols I researched and most never even got Covid. None died, none hospitalized. We also continued to socialize, no masks, no social distancing, etc. I firmly believe that my reading and researching and sharing what I learned made an impact on their lives and it was time well spent! It’s people like you, who have resisted the censorship and have put yourself out there publicly that gave me those tools. Thank you!
Not to question your new found confidence in your level of intelligence (I’ve was feeling similar thoughts about how I behaved during the Hysteria as compared to people I imagined were far more intelligent and credentialed than I), but I’m curious as to what the percentage is of stupidity to malice our public health officials/media/politicians. Many, many are undoubtedly blinded by their own hubris invariably leading to a kind of stupidity, but how many pushed these destructive mitigation measures due to malice?
It’s one thing for highly credentialed professionals in blue states to sheepishly follow “The Science” and just generally doing what they are told (strange the lack of critical thinking, but it’s what happened), it’s another for public health professionals to throw out 100 years of pandemic policy--the WHO’s most recent guidance published September 2019 was against masks, lockdowns, and called for life to go on as normally as possible--and call for measures they KNEW wouldn’t work! That’s not stupidity, that’s advancing an agenda. A really destructive one.
Stupid can be shown a different way, malice cannot.
Your point gets us into some very dark areas. If all of these people are NOT stupid, they are intentionally promoting edicts they know will harm perhaps billions of people. I of course don't know the percentage that might have been acting from malice. Probably very few. I think groupthink and going-along-to-get-along explains a lot of what happened and why. But there are real psychopaths, sociopaths and sadists in the world. I don't think the number is zero.
Your point is provocative and disturbing. Even if you were originally fooled, at some point you must have realized you were wrong ... and yet you still continue to support measures that you know are harming billions of people.
In my humble opinion, the people leading the show actually had high intelligence, but much higher psychopathic tendencies. The people below them, who followed like sheep, may have reasonable intelligence as well, but were subjected to "menticide' or "The Rape of the Mind," as Joost Meerloo wrote in 1956.
The "worst case scenario" would seem to be the "culling of the herd," as expressed at one time by the Deagel Report and the recently-demolished Georgia Guidestones. An author named Nick Daniel Huntley wrote one or more books about the Guidestones and their connection to mandatory vaccination. These books were available on major websites a year or so ago, and then suddenly disappeared, as though they never existed!
No need to be humble, you are correct. A thorough understanding of psychopathy and how normals relate to psychopaths is essential to understanding how societies function. As Rice pointed out, when no one was looking, many of the fear mongers were caught flouting their own rules, so they knew they were bullshit. Whitmer, Newsome Pelosi, Feinstein, the Bidens (visiting the Carters), and Fauci himself come to mind. These aren't even top of the food-chain manipulators, and they knew.
Yes, I was curious and could not find the book Also many good book on Propaganda by author Noam Chomsky and it is so interesting how we as individuals and society as a whole can be maniupulated.
priorities, JD... " Bread and circuses "' (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) derived from an ancient Roman strategy of keeping people happy by providing them with two things humanity seems to always cherish and desire: food & entertainment.' Alas, Truth runs a distant 3rd...
Dennis, I got it. Thank you so much! I've been finishing another book someone sent me on "The Great Re-Set" so haven't gotten to your book yet. Thanks for following up so I can make sure it's in my reading stack!
Covid-19 was a DoD run / Deep State / Kazarian Mafia / Globalist Psyop. It was also a compliance test, as well as the wet dream of the Malthusian Eugenicists who have run the world for centuries. And... it was a cover for the financial system implosion/ shift to the CBDC digital enslavement system too.
Back to the dumb vs compliant question. IMHO, The doctors were not dumb, they were indoctrinated into the “Rockefeller Medicine” system launched with the (Carnegie funded) Flexner Report in 1910. A similar indoctrination occurs in the hallowed halls of academia.
I’m astounded at how many people revealed their inner ‘Karen’s’. I see clearly how things happened in Nazi Germany with people snitching, and mindlessly complying.
What to do? Investigate Voluntaryism. Build your local communities & barter systems. James Corbett has a fantastic solution series on his website. CorbettReport.com.
That Rockefeller Medicine movement was one of the great tipping points in our history. I also now better understand how so many Germans could have snitched out their neighbors, resulting in their deaths. I do think the doctors (and the scientists) used to be smarter or more indepent-thinkers. The journalists used to be smarter and braver. Eventually, they got all the key organizations.
It’s been a long- term agenda to get us to this point. I’m a professional conspiracy theorist aka bullshit analyzer, so I’ve been watching the “show” for over 20 years. Orwell’s 1984 = Huxley Brave New World are blueprints not sci-fi.
In this article, I write that a healthy young person has a greater chance of being struck by lightning than dying from Covid. This statement is not hyperbole or embellishment. I think it's true. I researched mortality risks of "healthy" children (0 to 17) in the UK in the first year of the pandemic and concluded that their risk of dying from Covid in the first 12 months of the pandemic was about 1 in 2 million. Per another research project, I found that the risk of a random person in America being struck by lightning is about 1 in 700,000 in a 12-month period.
Here's a story I wrote about the (ignored) UK children's mortality study. All I did was subtract from the children's population that did not have prior "life-altering" medical conditions.
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2021/07/30/for-majority-of-uk-children-covid-mortality-is-0-000/
So a kid is more likely to get struck TWICE by lightning...
Good way to put it! I think so.
I don't think this is right. The chance of being struck twice in the same 12 month period is something like 1 out of 700,000^2 (squared), which is 1 out of 490 billion. In actuality, the odds are probably a bit better - some kids live on mountains or play golf or whatever... But not 1 in 2 million better.
As a math person, thanks for correcting this so I don't have to. Your odds are correct, if it were totally random, and as you say, it's not random, which changes the odds.
Every step of the way was based on deep state fraud. When the pandemic was announced and the eua begun, about .00005% of the world population was affected. Even that number was to dubious at best. The disease could never be traced back to a cause by a virus. For the millionth time, if it was a virus that caused disease, with trillions and trillions of viruses in our body, we'd all be dead. The cause of death and disease was never a germ. The treatment was often the cause of much if not most of the disease and death. Finally, the whole game from beginning to never ending was wrought with fear and fraud. Fool me once? How about fool me a thousand times.
They all knew , it was by design, carried out as planned, and all did as they were told, for whatever personal gain or motive. All guilty.
Agreed! It is hard to understand why so many people followed the deception and aided and abetted the criminals.
👍 - this shyt just makes me so sad! Have no idea how you do what you do Bill! But we thank you ♥️
Great article Bill. You hit the nail on the head perfectly.
I still am amazed at my brother and sisters who still to this day don’t get it even after telling them very early on when I had three old work mates from the same company die within days of getting the first shot right after the roll out. No questions,no curiosity, only response was stop send us information on the vaccines. Brother brag’s about getting shots and boosters to travel. Sister’s have had adverse events with one having on going heart issues. Still no clue. They trust the medical “so called”experts.
I think I know why. They all have multiple college degrees and or Masters degrees and graduated with honors and or grade points of 3.5 or better. Me? Graduated in 5 years with a 2.2 in Business Management and Marketing.
I love my siblings and don’t want to see them or anyone hurt, but come on people. WAKE UP!!!
It's hard waking up from a nightmare. Those who are refusing to wakeup from this one are fools, hiding behind their own foolish pride.
Let them sleep I say.
PonyBoy
Foolish pride. That says it all so perfectly. Just like the old saying. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.
The public has to take some (a lot) of the blame here. We let these dumb leaders or sociopaths achieve complete control of our society. They couldn't have gotten to the positions they've obtained without too many of the masses going along ... and "following" these dangerous people.
And as the saying goes, pride goeth before the fall…
After I got out of the military, I went to a Jr. college for a semester and then went to Montana St U. for two years and quit. About 20 years later I got a B.A. in history from Metropolitan State College in Denver, CO because I wanted to finish and I liked history. I'm just a retired claim staker. Even I knew everything about the injections was a lie, a fraud and a globohomo reptilian attempt to kill and control.
They don’t have the wisdom or humility to wake up.
Seems like if JR is smart enough to see through the lies, he's be smart enough to see what you just said, doesn't it?
You don't know the half of it. My mom's nursing home in Toronto is a non-profit facility funded by the government and run by community board and family council. Yet it MANDATED hand disinfection, antigen test, mask, and health history screening for every visitor and employee every time we enter, while even Health Canada itself announced that gene jabs, testing, masking and screening are no longer needed for everyone because of "Covid equilibrium". The province never passed these mandates, but we still have the Emergency Act in place with no Emergency. How can a publicly funded long term care facility with no democratic legislative authority mandate these things with threat of denying entry? And acquire police power to charge refuseniks with criminal trespass if they refuse? Visitors must now complete self-screening via online portal to OneAccess (private data collection corp) with personal ID and health information regarding symptoms, whereabouts and recent travel history; we must conduct self-testing with useless rapid antigen test that cannot even react to the current Omicron strain, but we are not given safety shield or gloves to protect against spill or splash from the corrosive reagent chemical we must use. Anyone who refuses to mask up, disinfect with carcinogenic sanitizer, answer the privacy-invading questions and accept risk of chemical burns from the test kit, will not be permitted entry.
Every story I hear from Canada seems to fit that Twilight zone nightmare. Hang tough and good luck!
Can this not be challenged? If they are government funded, complain to your MP. Just sending a copy of your post to him/her might help.
Did that in order to get in to care for my mother despite not having two gene jabs. The imposed mandate for testing and screening came about because I was ignoring the ridiculous rule to wear N95 or face shield instead of loose surgical mask, that they made up to punish me for challenging them on refusing me admittance for three years because I was not 'fully vaccinated'.
Aliss, frequently I say to my husband : Your mother did us a favour by dying when she did.
She was in a nursing home in London and we live in Toronto - a long drive sometimes lasting for 3 hours depending on traffic; my husband never missed a weekend visiting for those 4 long years. She had a lot of medical issues at that time , supra nuclear palsy , following years of RA treatments that started in her 40 's . I knew her husband was speaking for her because I had thought her mind was like swiss cheese and somehow he was covering it up. It was a brutal 4 years with her personality change and I think my father in law gave up looking after her because there was no known cure and her medications would keep her going for years( he died of cancer) . I do know the nursing home, prior the years of a virus debacle , would frequently be shut down because of a flu outbreak - that's what it was called in those days . All the residents would get something called Tamiflu - that the government stockpiled and based on the number of times the clients got it, I think it was in their food to use it up! We never had a flu injection and never caught a thing in the years we were going there -she died in 2018 . It would have been a disaster to have to see her after the vaccine roll out and I believe we dodged a bullet based on the nightmare for you . Is your mother still alive and if so what are the protocols now since we have no appetite here to look into how this virus was handled?
Great post, Bill! Blood boils 🤬
I love this. It mirrors what I worry about - sounding like I think I'm so goddamn smart. I try to remember to add the same caveats you did - I'm not that smart, this shit is obvious. Most everybody else is just that stupid. And - it's not just me, I may be among a small minority, but still millions in this country alone see everything I do just as clearly. We aren't that great, there is simply something fundamentally very wrong with most everyone else.
Way, way back when I was a teen in the 60's, the figure some like-minded people and I kicked around was 3% of people are capable and willing to see things as they are. Just an estimate of course, but it seemed about right, and still does.
I also worried about coming across as arrogant or smarter-than-thou .... so I feel better that you got the point we're both making - it's just that everyone else is so surprisingly ignorant.
I still wonder how so many experts could be wrong about EVERYTHING. Statistically, they should have been right about a few things ... but they weren't.
I do have all the credentials but was appalled by all the (seemingly) obvious lies and misdirections from the beginning. I tried desperately to convince my kids (now 18 and 20) to reconsider what they were being told, but failed. There were no “authoritative” sources to support my contentions, and my (very intelligent) son said “what makes you think you’re so much smarter than all these experts?” I didn’t have enough info then to say it’s not about smarts, but rather honesty. When the “incentives” turned into coercion, there could be no doubt.
Honestly I didn’t have an answer for him. They both got injected.
Sorry to hear about your kids' attitude toward your wisdom. I agree with Bill Rice though, it is definitely about smarts. People who can't figure out obvious truths from evidence right in front of them are not smart, end of story. "Scientific" consensus and conventional wisdom is off the rails all the time, that's nothing new. I would try to hammer that home, with examples like dietary advice to eat rice cakes and avoid eggs. For decades you were a heretic to say dietary fat might be better than refined carbs. Many, many examples exist. My kid understands that, and didn't get jabbed. But it's largely luck, sometimes there is nothing you can do but try.
Mrs. Gump reduced the intelligence question to its core part: "Stupid is as Stupid does."
How can someone be "intelligent" if they believe ridiculous things? Or: You continue to believe nonsensical assertions even after the evidence is overwhelming?
If someone consistently and repeatedly believes non-plausible assertions, this provides even more evidence this person is not very bright.
The corollary to this is that people who consistently pick up on falsehoods before others might be ... smarter than most other people. But I guess it's politically incorrect to point this out.
I have been struck by the fact that many contrarians who have been proven to be right are not often asked to be on the interview shows (Ron Paul comes immediately to mind). The people who have repeatedly made claims that were spectacularly wrong experience little or no consequences from their embarrassing batting averages.
As soon as Covid was monetized and politicized, people stopped being willing to reasonably discuss what the FACTS were. Add constant fear porn on every main stream media channel, fraudulent infection rates and falsified death counts, authoritarian and heavy-handed statewide mandates in most parts of the country/world and mass hysteria set in. And then there's pride. Those people in power who made the wrong decisions, believed the wrong "data", and created more problems than they solved are probably too prideful to admit ever being wrong. I don't think I'll ever trust the medical community/"experts" again...
I'm not dumb but I did buy the fear porn they circulated and got 1 jab, peer and family pressure won out... now I know not to believe the bs on this or the climate bs
You nailed it. Thanks.
There were thousands of brave experts that were speaking out (eg The Great Barrington Declaration) ... but the censorship industrial complex was running full steam. Just like it does now for the Climate Crisis hoax.
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I'm still trying to figure out how seriously to take people like Malone, McCullough, Kirsch, and Malhotra who eventually woke up but thought getting the jab was a good idea. And the 3 doctors were part of the system and should know exactly how corrupt it is. I gotta come down on the side of "not very", although I appreciate their work greatly.
People who were briefly fooled often become the most motivated (pissed off) and effective warriors for "getting" the people who tried to fool them. Tucker Carlson once backed all the "interventions" in the Mideast and today he's one of the most forceful and influential critics of the "Neo-con" movement.
I keep waiting for one family member who lost a child to the vaccines to become the leader of this fight. People who lost children to fraud and lies also often become the greatest advocates for bringing justice to the guilty. But this hasn't happened yet with Covid. Although some family members are trying - they are just ignored and censored.
Good points. But, I gotta think if you fall for an obvious scam once, you're simply that type person, and can't be relied upon to spot the next one. We need them though, there aren't nearly enough of us without the converts. Probably still not enough even with them. I've had similar thoughts to yours, we need more movers and shakers to suffer tremendous personal loss for the narrative to flip.
I love it! To me, it was common sense from Day One. My experience being having abandoned annual flu shots long ago. They never delivered the advertised efficacy. So, the COVID vax , I mean glorified flu shot, didn’t have my full support. Then Fauci started in with scare tactics that did not make SCIENTIFIC sense. Can we take turns being valedictorians?? Some of the smartest people I know completely lost their mental faculties!! You could caugh and they’d run out of a room! 😂😂😂😂
In retrospect, they had us when they got so many people to accept their annual flu shots .... that don't work.
I agree, but it begs the question, who do doctors not question it?
My husband’s dr pressed him to take the pneumonia vax. Why my husband refused, he asked why. My husband explained that he had done the research and it had mercury in it. The dr told his assistant to get the insert and bring it to him. She did, the insert (which he had never read) did show mercury as an ingredient. He told his assistant to send them all back to the manufacturer with a letter stating that he would no longer give those shots due to the ingredients.
However, the insert for the Covid vax was totally blank. A HUGE piece of paper, folded exactly as all inserts on all other meds, which, unfolded, reveal a blank.
Doctors, hospitals, hospital administrators, nurses all WELL paid for each and every lockstep they took.
Demonic
Utterly demonic
I didn't know this. Good grief. Thanks for sharing.
I remember reading the ingredients online...I believe each company had it posted there. Consequently that was enough for me to see PEG there.
Why not who
I was really surprised when two good friends got it the first day it was offered here. Most of us were scared and floundering, but come on.....you don't just jump on a horse if you know very little about how to ride.
These people DID have brains - they are now in some la la land and have past the point of no return. They are still stunned I never took it. It has truly damaged the friendships.
A few days ago, a dunce on Twitter proclaimed his love and admiration for Tony Fauci. I was dumbfounded by this display of stupidity, but I was even more astounded by the huge number of imbeciles who seconded his declaration. It was like something out of North Korea. These Fauci devotees are in a cult.
Man. It's a (perversely) fascinating psychological and sociological study that's for sure.
Depressing, isn't it? Sometimes I'll scroll through the comments on an article in a left-leaning site and get total clarity on why the world is as it is.
I wrote a Substack article titled "It pays to read the Reader Comments." But I didn't make your excellent point. You can also learn how the other side thinks.
BTW, my article on "Reader Comments" ... got a ton of reader comments!
Here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/TheRichFromCali/status/1637902180874358784?s=20
Wow. Surely those are bots.....
Never mind.
They’re really that stupid, aren’t they?
That tweet got 19,200 likes.
Wow......
Probably not real people. Fake posts like all the other fake crap we have seen.
On the one hand...it’s not possible that they are this stupid. It simply cannot be. On the other hand...there is still more than one person driving around solo rocking a mask, and playing the Covid can only get me while I’m standing in a restaurant game. So....I give up.
A few months ago I overheard a virtual meeting of my wife and her colleagues. They were discussing whether masks should still be worn as many patients were refusing to wear them. A few of the meeting attendees were complainig about wearing masks but most seemingly had no opinion or were uncomfortable voicing it. The consensus was that more guidance should be sought. Bear in mind that my wife's co-workers are all highly paid health care proffessionals I was amazed that no one simply refused to wear the mask. They are still having to mask up all day every day due to "policy". It's often not stupidity or evil intent that drives bad decisions just cowardly compliance by people who have forgotten how to think and stand up for themselves and know that to do so will carry negative carreer consequences.
Well said. Thanks.
The ability of most to ignore easily observable reality and unquestionably believe what they are being told has been simply amazing, but nothing new I’m afraid. History is littered with tragedy stemming from the same blind allegiance to authority. Here it comes again...
Great article, new follower! I have to say that I am immensely proud of the fact that I didn’t fall for the plandemic from day one. I spent hours and hours reading and researching, questioning their narratives and none of it added up. Viruses did not all of a sudden behave in ways they never had before. My family (a rather large group) had only 4 who did not listen and succumbed to the pressure, every one of which have gotten infected multiple times. The rest of my family, all my surrounding neighbors, and my intimate circle of friends immediately began one of the prophylactic protocols I researched and most never even got Covid. None died, none hospitalized. We also continued to socialize, no masks, no social distancing, etc. I firmly believe that my reading and researching and sharing what I learned made an impact on their lives and it was time well spent! It’s people like you, who have resisted the censorship and have put yourself out there publicly that gave me those tools. Thank you!
Judy, Thank you very much for subscribing and for those kind comments and corroborating personal anecdotes.
Not to question your new found confidence in your level of intelligence (I’ve was feeling similar thoughts about how I behaved during the Hysteria as compared to people I imagined were far more intelligent and credentialed than I), but I’m curious as to what the percentage is of stupidity to malice our public health officials/media/politicians. Many, many are undoubtedly blinded by their own hubris invariably leading to a kind of stupidity, but how many pushed these destructive mitigation measures due to malice?
It’s one thing for highly credentialed professionals in blue states to sheepishly follow “The Science” and just generally doing what they are told (strange the lack of critical thinking, but it’s what happened), it’s another for public health professionals to throw out 100 years of pandemic policy--the WHO’s most recent guidance published September 2019 was against masks, lockdowns, and called for life to go on as normally as possible--and call for measures they KNEW wouldn’t work! That’s not stupidity, that’s advancing an agenda. A really destructive one.
Stupid can be shown a different way, malice cannot.
Your point gets us into some very dark areas. If all of these people are NOT stupid, they are intentionally promoting edicts they know will harm perhaps billions of people. I of course don't know the percentage that might have been acting from malice. Probably very few. I think groupthink and going-along-to-get-along explains a lot of what happened and why. But there are real psychopaths, sociopaths and sadists in the world. I don't think the number is zero.
Your point is provocative and disturbing. Even if you were originally fooled, at some point you must have realized you were wrong ... and yet you still continue to support measures that you know are harming billions of people.
Malice and evil are closely related, and the amount of evil that was unleashed on the world during the scamdemic was beyond anything I've ever seen.
In my humble opinion, the people leading the show actually had high intelligence, but much higher psychopathic tendencies. The people below them, who followed like sheep, may have reasonable intelligence as well, but were subjected to "menticide' or "The Rape of the Mind," as Joost Meerloo wrote in 1956.
The "worst case scenario" would seem to be the "culling of the herd," as expressed at one time by the Deagel Report and the recently-demolished Georgia Guidestones. An author named Nick Daniel Huntley wrote one or more books about the Guidestones and their connection to mandatory vaccination. These books were available on major websites a year or so ago, and then suddenly disappeared, as though they never existed!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59421532-georgia-guidestones-commitment-to-world-depopulation
No need to be humble, you are correct. A thorough understanding of psychopathy and how normals relate to psychopaths is essential to understanding how societies function. As Rice pointed out, when no one was looking, many of the fear mongers were caught flouting their own rules, so they knew they were bullshit. Whitmer, Newsome Pelosi, Feinstein, the Bidens (visiting the Carters), and Fauci himself come to mind. These aren't even top of the food-chain manipulators, and they knew.
Yes, I was curious and could not find the book Also many good book on Propaganda by author Noam Chomsky and it is so interesting how we as individuals and society as a whole can be maniupulated.
Since the Ancient Greeks and Romans they've asked: Why is it so easy to misle the people?
priorities, JD... " Bread and circuses "' (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) derived from an ancient Roman strategy of keeping people happy by providing them with two things humanity seems to always cherish and desire: food & entertainment.' Alas, Truth runs a distant 3rd...
Well done, Bill.
Thanks, Dennis. I feel better after I write these.
Keep the flow. did you get the Soros book?
Dennis, I got it. Thank you so much! I've been finishing another book someone sent me on "The Great Re-Set" so haven't gotten to your book yet. Thanks for following up so I can make sure it's in my reading stack!
Wonderful.
Covid-19 was a DoD run / Deep State / Kazarian Mafia / Globalist Psyop. It was also a compliance test, as well as the wet dream of the Malthusian Eugenicists who have run the world for centuries. And... it was a cover for the financial system implosion/ shift to the CBDC digital enslavement system too.
Back to the dumb vs compliant question. IMHO, The doctors were not dumb, they were indoctrinated into the “Rockefeller Medicine” system launched with the (Carnegie funded) Flexner Report in 1910. A similar indoctrination occurs in the hallowed halls of academia.
I’m astounded at how many people revealed their inner ‘Karen’s’. I see clearly how things happened in Nazi Germany with people snitching, and mindlessly complying.
What to do? Investigate Voluntaryism. Build your local communities & barter systems. James Corbett has a fantastic solution series on his website. CorbettReport.com.
That Rockefeller Medicine movement was one of the great tipping points in our history. I also now better understand how so many Germans could have snitched out their neighbors, resulting in their deaths. I do think the doctors (and the scientists) used to be smarter or more indepent-thinkers. The journalists used to be smarter and braver. Eventually, they got all the key organizations.
It’s been a long- term agenda to get us to this point. I’m a professional conspiracy theorist aka bullshit analyzer, so I’ve been watching the “show” for over 20 years. Orwell’s 1984 = Huxley Brave New World are blueprints not sci-fi.
No doubt, Michi. They are instruction manuals, not warnings.