It seems that the official position on the origin of the Wuhan Red Death has now shifted to the “lab-leak theory”. We all knew, right from the beginning, that this was the most parsimonious explanation, but we were told again and again that it was a racist, debunked, right-wing conspiracy theory, and those who argued otherwise were silenced, shunned, deplatformed, and punished.
We were entirely right, and within our rights (indeed, we had a civic duty!) to question:
– Masking (especially for children)
– Lockdowns
– School closures
– Vaccine efficacy
– Vaccine safety
– Vaccine requirements for employment, travel, and public life generally
– Vaccination of children
– Quarantining healthy people
– Asymptomatic transmission
– Natural vs. artificial immunity
– Outdoor contagion
– Suppression (banning!) of early treatment with common off-label medications
– Natural-origin narratives
– Arrogation (and abuse) of extraordinary “emergency” powers by politicians at every level of government
– Denunciation of reasonable skepticism as pernicious “misinformation”
In particular I find myself seething with anger at the people — many of whom are friends of mine — who obediently (and, when challenged, belligerently) supported oppressive restrictions and mandates, which in many cases cost families their livelihoods, while their own employment (and paychecks) continued wholly unaffected as they worked from home. (You know who you are.)
I realize that I’m just shouting up a drainpipe here, but if the people in our public institutions who did all this to us are able just to whisk it all into the memory hole, and we simply “move on”, we will have demonstrated that there is, quite simply, no longer any limit to the lies and abuses we will acquiesce to, and that the virile and ornery American spirit that built this nation is now on its deathbed. (That may well, of course, be the fact of the matter: there’s isn’t, as far as I can see, much evidence to the contrary.)
Or have we, at last, had enough? Can we rise to our feet, and live?
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Malcolm I’ve been reading about censorship and lying by media and government and just seething. I’ve asked people I know, like you have done, just what do they think now? They don’t seem to realize what they gave in to and that media and government and big tech simply can’t be wrong. Their gods can’t let them down. I, we, simply can’t be right because come what may, we must be wrong. Our gods: truth, fact and evidence are lesser ones and shall remain so.
My BP medicine is maxed out and yes, we can rise and live….eventually. It will take a while like slow motion dominos falling and there are lots of them to fall.
This virile and ornery American resisted all of it from the very start. I was yelled at in public places, denied entry to places and some family members would not allow visits. We missed funerals for refusing to wear masks as my wife and I weren’t jabbed. Our commercial building restaurant tenant went out of business and we had to spend a half million getting the building switched around for a new tenant after a year of no income. Our other business barely made it after many employees took government handouts and stayed home. Etc, etc, etc. Just forgive and forget? No way. And now we know several jabbed who have died suddenly.
LP, I lost my good friend Alan C. very suddenly in the fall of 2021: a fit and healthy man in early retirement, a former kung-fu student of mine who rode miles on his bike every day, who just dropped dead in his kitchen. I miss him terribly, and I strongly suspect it was that damned vaccine that killed him.
I was, and continue to be, one of the refusers.
I live in NYC, and did not comply with any aspect of the insanity from day one.
My family and I were denied entry to restaurants, museums, movies and gyms for 6 months when the sickening vaccine passports were required.
That so many millions complied without the slightest resistance really lowered my view of my fellow man.
I was only allowed admittance to my children’s schools without a passport starting about a month ago.
My son has attended a well regarded public middle school for three years, and I have never seen the interior of the building and he will be graduating from 8th in June.
I have been yelled at in the street for not wearing a mask when that was demanded of the sheep, and laughed at when I refused vaccination despite having robust natural immunity from a Covid infection in February of 2021.
Despite what many think, we are still in the middle of this nightmare, as the true fallout from mass vaccination with a very problematic experimental drug has yet to fully unfold.
I will caution all of my fellow refusers to now beware the begrudging admission of the lab leak hypothesis from certain quarters.
As horrible as it may seem, I think a good deal of evidence now shows that it was no “leak”, that this whole disaster was a controlled release, possible several times in different locations, and that our own Deep State was directly involved.
This is not to let China off the hook. Far from it.
There is a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel, but we aren’t there yet.
The worst, in terms of the fallout, is yet to come.
Another Dave,
I lived in NYC too when this horror-show began (we sold our Park Slope house in October 2021, after living there for 40 years), and to my shame I allowed myself to be nagged and browbeaten by family and friends into getting the first two rounds of the vaccine, though a) I knew it was a crapshoot, and b) I was outraged at the power being arrogated.
Bravo for your defiance; I know very well how hard that must have been. And I agree that there are many more chapters of this awful story yet to come.
I’m another person who took the first two jabs-Moderna-simply because of where my wife and I live. Our senior community also has a nursing care building which means rules from Medicare/Medicaid. My wife took no jabs because she never takes them. I did so because I am the one who must do the going places and getting things on and off campus. I figured I needed to do it for the sake of my neighbors since by definition we are all at risk–over 65 and many other factors.
I/we have not taken any jabs since my first two and we both got late Covid around last Labor Day. Since then, my next physical showed in bloodwork that I had low platelet count. I have never had that or any blood concern. My Dr sent me to a hematologist just to be safe and all was fine. My opinion was the low reading was caused by the jab. Neither Dr disagreed.
God.
How I miss my friends.
https://malcolmpollack.com/2007/06/04/duff-man/
To give but one example.
There are more, or were to be sure but that particular one’s son – early on took me to task severely. He’s come around.
Yet again, and just yesterday. A young late 40ish guy who I formerly employed to do “strong back absolutely – strong opinion capably expressed not necessary” – Anyway the poor young guy had to switch-out his colostomy bag leaving me to clean my bathroom this morning.
He’d gotten “perfectly boosted” back last November as recommended and, at that time harangued me “JK, How you of all people, [pulmonary] challenged as you are and; the son of an MD no less can continue to refuse to ACCEPT the Science …!”
He’s a VAERS statistic poor fellow and now we got his Living Will notarized among the other things I took him around to yesterday to attend to he [heartrendingly] asked me more than once:
” … … How could you possibly have known?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npBqHcpswMo
But I didn’t bother with any of that actually. By way of explaining yesterday I simply reminded him of how his Dad “introduced” me to him …
This is the most contrary guy [me] you’ll ever meet. … .