***This is a special issue from The Redneck Intellectual. The time has come for a proper accounting of what happened in and to the United States (and around the world) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Covid was not an “act of God,” nor was it an act of Mother Nature. Covid was a man-made disaster. We know that now. It was created in a lab in Wuhan China, which received funding from U.S. taxpayers.
This man-made plague killed millions of people. This man-made crisis almost broke the world economy. This man-made catastrophe almost broke Western civilization. In a moment of mass hysteria (and that’s exactly what happened), the West lost its mind.
I have one question for you: if you knew in 2020 what you know now about Covid-19, its source, the effectiveness of masks, the vaccines, alternative medications, the lockdowns and the long-term effects of the lockdowns (including the propaganda and censorship that went with the lockdowns), would you do anything differently? If a similar kind of virus hit the United States again (and there is a likely chance of that happening), would you act as you did in 2020 or would you behave differently?
Many people died because of Covid-19, and many have died or been injured by the vaccines. Many more people’s live were ruined by the lockdowns.
The long-term consequences of the lockdowns on the young and the elderly are still largely unknown, but we are now beginning to see the effects. Think about it: millions of elderly people were effectively imprisoned in their rooms in assisted-living facilities, or in their small apartments, or in their homes. They barely left their homes for months on end. They were prevented from seeing their families. Many died alone.
Hundreds of millions of children around the world were likewise banned from attending school and trapped in their homes in front of computer screens for hours on end every day, seven days a week. I have seen with my own eyes the damage done to young people by the lockdowns.
The time has come for an accounting of what happened. In what follows, I provide some perspective and evidence for your consideration.
SOURCE: THE WUHAN VIRUS?
HOW IT STARTED:
Coronavirus almost certainly came from an animal, not a lab leak, top scientists argue
The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health
HOW IT’S GOING:
Lab Leak: Likely—Newly available government cables add to the pile of suggestive evidence.
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins.
AH, RIGHT—NOW THE PARDON FOR FAUCI MAKES SENSE: Sen. Rand Paul Says Fifteen Federal Agencies Knew of EcoHealth Coronavirus Research and Possible Link to Covid.
LYING LIARS
IT’S ALL ABOUT GOVERNMENT-MANDATED INCENTIVES: Lab owner pleads guilty to faking COVID test results during pandemic.
MASK CHIC
A NEW LOW IN 21ST-CENTURY FASHION: More Mask Hysteria: As summer turns to fall, the maskaholics are attempting a comeback.
GOOD ADVICE: No Masks, Please, We’re Rational: Maskaholics are incorrigible. The rest of us should pay them no heed.
OK, SO MAYBE IT’S NOT FASHION AFTER ALL; MAYBE IT’S A SIGN OF MENTAL ILLNESS: The Mask of Ignorance: Recent responses to the Cochrane review suggest that there may be no cure for maskaholics.
IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE SCIENCE. You do know that, right? At a certain point for some people, the mask became chic and a performative sign of virtue signaling: The Mask Comes Off: Determined to defend face coverings, a Scientific American article dismisses scientific “rigor.”
LEST WE FORGET. Here’s what mass insanity looks like:
LOCKDOWN FASCISM
THE LOCKDOWNS WERE THE SINGLE WORST THING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS DONE DURING MY LIFETIME: Death and Lockdowns: There’s no proof that lockdowns save lives but plenty of evidence that they end them.
THE MEDICAL-GOVERNMENT COMPLEX (THINK FAUCI), BY WHICH I MEAN THE SO-CALLED “GOVERNMENT PUBLIC HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT,” HAS INDEED BECOME A THREAT TO INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY: Lock Them Down: America’s public-health establishment has become a threat to individual liberty.
THE POLITICIANS GROOVED ON THE LOCKDOWNS, which brought out the very worst impulses of the ruling elite: Lockdowns: the Self-Inflicted Disaster: Governments’ use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects.
TRUMP GOT PLAYED LIKE A FIDDLE ON THIS ONE AND IS TO PARTIALLY BLAME. Anyway, watch the documentary. It’s well worth your time: New Documentary Asserts Deborah Birx Was Real Culprit Behind Disastrous Covid Lockdowns.
WHY DID THEY DO IT, THEN? The Fickle ‘Science’ of Lockdowns: Experts foresaw before Covid that the strategy would fail. The authorities embraced it anyway.
FAUCI WAS, FROM DAY ONE, SELF-EVIDENTLY A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR. His flip-flops were brazenly self-serving: Tyranny of Fauci and the experts: COVID-19 misinformation campaign
VACCINATION
I’M PRO VACCINE ON THE CONDITION THAT THEY ACTUALLY, YA KNOW, WORK: Study Finds That the More Covid “Vaccine” Doses You Have, the More Likely You Are to Get Covid
UTTERLY SHOCKING! Whoever would have thought? Does this mean my grandmother was right the whole time? Bombshell CDC Study: Natural Immunity Provides Significantly More Protection Against COVID Than Vaccination Only
LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE LIED, MANY DIED, AND THEN THE COVER-UP BEGAN: URGENT: Pfizer failed to report six deaths of Covid vaccine recipients when it updated its clinical trial results in July
SURELY THERE IS A CRIME SOMEWHERE IN ALL OF THIS: Explosive Study Once Removed by Lancet within 24 Hours, Now Peer-Reviewed and Public: Reveals 74% of Deaths Directly Linked to COVID-19 Shot.
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH, OR CAN YOU? What does science tell us about COVID-19 death rates and their relationship to the covid vaccines? These scholarly and scientific papers provide clear evidence demonstrating that mortality rates increased for the vaccinated (vs. non-vaccinated) populations (in Germany and Italy, respectively).
THE VACCINES AND CANCER. THE TOLD US TO FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE,” BUT SOMETHING WENT WRONG, HORRIBLY WRONG. Maybe the point is that we did not follow the science. Instead, we got cancer: Massive cancer deaths study vindicates my warnings over covid boosters.
Cancers Appearing in Ways Never Before Seen After COVID Vaccinations: Dr. Harvey Risch
Systematic suppression of the truth – covid vaccines are linked to cancer and death.
THEY LIED AND PEOPLE DIED:
Covid vaccine may have killed hundreds of thousands in the US alone.
The vast scale of vaccine damage America tried (and failed) to hide.
NOT GOOD: World Health Organization officially confesses COVID shots CAUSE monkeypox
THOSE WHO CLAIMED TO SPEAK IN THE NAME OF GOVERNMENT SCIENCE LIED TO YOU: Oxford Study Lays Bare the Terrible Decision to Vaccinate Children Against Covid – The Daily Sceptic
SCIENTIST SAYS THE VACCINES CHANGED THE WAY WE THINK AND ACT—AND NOT FOR THE BETTER: The Indoctrinated Brain.
FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SCIENTISTS:
THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE RULING CLASS
BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE SCIENCE. When you willfully ignore the science, there is almost certainly something else going on: Ignoring the Science: Why does the CDC still recommend Covid shots for kids?
AND LIE THEY DID: The Covid Cover-up: Health authorities and policymakers squandered public trust by lying to the American people.
MAYBE THE REVERSE QUESTION IS THE ONE THAT NEEDS TO BE ASKED: WHAT DID THEY GET RIGHT? What the Censors Got Wrong During Covid
AND NOW WE KNOW THE TRUTH! This letter from Mark Zuckerberg to Jim Jordan reveals certain important things: 1) the government (i.e., the Biden-Harris administration) pressured social media outlets to “censor” and thus propagandize; 2) Facebook did in fact “censor” ordinary Americans; 3) Facebook, at the behest of the federal government killed the Hunter Biden laptop story.
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! The WHO’s Power Grab
MEET DR. EVIL: NYC Covid Czar Had Drug-Fueled Orgies While Mandating Lockdowns, Jabs
DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE? Jailed Felons among Thousands who Scammed COVID Relief Program out of Billions of Dollars
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: “Covid” Didn’t Destroy Businesses and Lives; The Government Did.
THE COVID REGIME WAS PARTLY ABOUT CREATING AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO EXTEND THE WELFARE STATE: Medicaid Eligibility Matters
THIS IS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES. Promise: France proposes to outlaw medical dissent
LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES
WE WON’T KNOW THE FULL CONSEQUENCES OF THE LOCKDOWNS FOR MANY YEARS TO COME: Study finds boys’ mental health more impacted by COVID-19 pandemic than girls.’
COVID TOTALLY BROKE SOME PEOPLE: Meet the Americans STILL isolating 4 years into Covid pandemic… including NJ woman who’s been in lockdown for 1,620 days.
THE REAL STORY WAS NEVER THE TOTALITARIAN GOALS OF THE LEFT, BUT THE UTTER COWARDICE OF REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS TO FIGHT FOR A FREE SOCIETY: The Democrats’ Greatest Achievement: Convincing Idiots That Tyranny Is Virtue.
I know people who died because of this man-made virus. I’ve seen many lives—up close and personal—destroyed by the Covid lockdowns. Surely crimes were committed.
There is a destructive virus in this world much worse than Covid. That virus is a philosophic virus that has done damage to the intellectual immune system of the West. The virus must be identified and eliminated. We can never let this happen again.
The other problem is the catastrophic loss of credibility by the public health authorities. This was deserved but when something really deadly shows up, they won't be believed. The dropoff in the rates of traditional vaccination is already evident. The only fix is a rigorous review carried out under the supervision of a skeptic like RFK.
Great post! If you haven’t read A Plague upon Our House by Scott Atlas MD I highly recommend it. Thanks as always for sharing evidence-based content.
P.S. To those readers who subscribe, without evidence, to vaccines as lifesaving medicine, I recommend you look up Social Desirability Bias or read Bryan Caplan on the this subject. Just because something sounds good doesn’t always mean that it is.
P.S.S. To those readers who know someone 80 years or older who died “from COVID”, I would encourage you to check out the mortality rate of 80+ year olds who contract a form of respiratory illness or the flu. As the great Thomas Sowell has reminded his readers: correlation is not causation. If you’re still outraged about this fact ask yourself how many older people died because of government lockdowns and not making high risk individuals and the elderly a priority from day one.