The Vaccines Cannot Do What Is Asked of Them
A universalising pandemic ideology blinds our leaders to the strategic possibilities open to them, and compels one policy failure after the other.

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Increasingly, politicians and medical bureaucrats are entranced by a bizarre pandemic ideology. Like most ideologies, it remains oblivious to evidence and argument, holding that the risk of severe outcomes from Corona infection is far more evenly distributed across the population than it is; and allowing only universal solutions, such as quarantining and vaccinating entire populations. These obtuse views, which just won’t go away, are at the root of our failed and destructive policies. For 20 months now, this pandemic ideology has blinded everyone in charge to the possibility of shielding the vulnerable, leveraging seasonal patterns in infection, and leaving the kids alone. The stratified nature of Corona risk is the key to unravelling the pandemic, and it’s the one thing nobody will recognise.

COMMENT:
It is good to see that others are also recognizing pandemicism: pandemic mythology turned into full-blown ideology, an ideology that combines catastrophism with totalitarianism and prohibits rational inquiry, let alone critique.

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https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/the-vaccines-cannot-do-what-is-asked

#covid19 #Pandemicism

CHALLENGE THE "PANDEMIC"

Further to the last post, it has become abundantly clear through the many cases lost in Canadian courts, that judges routinely respond: "Well, it's a pandemic, so..."

As long as legal challenges fail to assault and dismantle this basic, fundamental, core belief, they will continue to fail.

We need to ask:
❓What "pandemic"?
❓Who has the authority and the right to declare a pandemic?
❓On what basis can one claim that there is or was a pandemic?
❓What is it about a given pandemic that necessitates certain specific measures?

Again, too many on our side work with the assumption that we are in fact "in a pandemic". Drop that term, as much as you have dropped "vaccine". When the "pandemic" was first declared in Quebec, there was zero evidence on the ground to warrant that classification.

#covid19 #Pandemicism #legality #resistance

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering
Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, David Henry
BMJ. 2002 Apr 13; 324(7342): 886–891.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886

[Thanks Stephen]

EXTRACT:
A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor diseases and promote them to prescribers and consumers. Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, and David Henry give examples of “disease mongering” and suggest how to prevent the growth of this practice

There's a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they're sick. Some forms of medicalising ordinary life may now be better described as disease mongering: widening the boundaries of treatable illness in order to expand markets for those who sell and deliver treatments. Pharmaceutical companies are actively involved in sponsoring the definition of diseases and promoting them to both prescribers and consumers. The social construction of illness is being replaced by the corporate construction of disease.

Whereas some aspects of medicalisation are the subject of ongoing debate, the mechanics of corporate backed disease mongering, and its impact on public consciousness, medical practice, human health, and national budgets, have attracted limited critical scrutiny.

Within many disease categories informal alliances have emerged, comprising drug company staff, doctors, and consumer groups. Ostensibly engaged in raising public awareness about underdiagnosed and undertreated problems, these alliances tend to promote a view of their particular condition as widespread, serious, and treatable. Because these “disease awareness” campaigns are commonly linked to companies' marketing strategies, they operate to expand markets for new pharmaceutical products. Alternative approaches—emphasising the self limiting or relatively benign natural history of a problem, or the importance of personal coping strategies—are played down or ignored. As the late medical writer Lynn Payer observed, disease mongers “gnaw away at our self-confidence.”

Although some sponsored professionals or consumers may act independently and all concerned may have honourable motives, in many cases the formula is the same: groups and/or campaigns are orchestrated, funded, and facilitated by corporate interests, often via their public relations and marketing infrastructure.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1122833/?s=09

#covid19 #Pandemicism #capital_accumulation #medicalization #disease_mongering #fear_mongering

Covid Policy Tactics Were Borrowed from the Vietnam War

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▶️ justifications for starting the War and the Lockdowns were similarly questionable
▶️ the stated mission was changed after intervention began
▶️ last far longer than governments had suggested in their original rollouts
▶️ dubious experts who were/are the faces and drivers of government policy
▶️ government officials misleadingly used fake statistics to advance their agendas
▶️ the government mistakenly relied on human confinement to eliminate elusive foes
▶️ the experts ignored the larger context of the challenges presented, thus causing vast, unnecessary collateral damage
▶️ governments failed to recognize the limits and costs of intervention
▶️ decision-makers unjustly and evilly shifted burdens from those who had already lived a long time to a younger generation who had the most vital life to lose
▶️ striving to fulfill such unrealistic pledges in these parallel situations cost many people dearly
▶️ zero tolerance
▶️ created economic winners and losers
▶️ the more affluent have been insulated from the suffering experienced by those who live hand to mouth
▶️ the government implemented technical solutions that were falsely touted as game-changers
▶️ governments also failed to consider the longer-term effects of their drastic interventions
▶️ government printed so much money that it will cause economy-distorting inflation that will stress individuals and families for decades
▶️ Partisan politics strongly tainted both the Vietnam and Coronavirus responses
▶️ Presidential history might repeat itself in the pandemic Era
▶️ Eventually, a consensus will emerge that the Coronavirus response was, like the Vietnam War, a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, intergenerationally unjust, deeply destructive overreaction that caused far more harm than they prevented

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https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-policy-tactics-were-borrowed-from-the-vietnam-war/

#covid19 #COIN #Vietnam #history #myth_making #lockdowns #Pandemicism

The Psychology of Mimetic Contagion

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...I suggest that two accounts of social psychology—the mass formation theory of Matthias Desmet and the mimetic contagion theory of Rene Girard, help to answer this question. These two theories also go a long way toward explaining some of the more puzzling behaviors we saw emerge during the pandemic....

Individuals in the mass are impervious to rational argumentation, and respond instead to vivid visual images, including numbers and statistics presented in charts and graphs, and repetition of the messages central to the narrative. Desmet furthermore claims that—as in a hypnotized state where one can be insensitive to pain, allowing even for surgery without anesthesia—someone caught up in the process of mass formation becomes radically insensitive to other important values in life. All kinds of goods can be taken from him, including his freedom, and he takes little notice of these losses and harms....

In addition to the mass formation theory, the insights of Stanford Professor Rene Girard, one of the 20th Century’s greatest thinkers, on mimetic contagion and the scapegoating mechanism are helpful to understand this phenomenon. In many ways, this complements the mass formation account. Girard saw that we imitate not only one another’s behaviors, but one another’s desires. We end up wanting the same thing(s), e.g., “I need to be first in line for the vaccine, which will let me get my life back.”

This can lead to mimetic rivalry and increase social tension and conflict. The mechanism that societies use to resolve this conflict is scapegoating. The social tension (amplified during lockdowns and with the fear-based propaganda) is attributed to a person or class of person, with the proposal that if we can only rid ourselves of the [fill in the blank “unclean” member(s) of society] the social tension will resolve.

The banishment or destruction of the scapegoat (in this case, the unvaccinated) falsely promises to return society to a harmonious state and diffuse the threat of violent conflict. While scapegoating does relieve social tensions a bit, this is always only temporary. Mimetic rivalry continues, social tensions once again build, and another scapegoat must be identified (e.g., now the enemy is those who spread alleged disinformation). The cycle continues. ....

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https://brownstone.org/articles/the-psychology-of-mimetic-contagion/

#covid19 #Pandemicism #mass_psychosis #hysteria #psychology #demonization