During the seventies, we sang along with The Who and deathless lyrics like I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution, take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around, pick my guitar and play, just like yesterday, then I’ll get on my knees and pray, we don’t get fooled again.
It was a great song but neither playing the guitar nor praying did the trick: we did get fooled again. And that realization is what’s slowly slouching towards us, as we stumble listlessly through the waning days of the worst thing that has ever happened to us. The mood, the Zeitgeist, is dark. But considering all the lies, vilifications, half-truths, bad statistics, and downright aggression from people we believed had our best interests in mind—why is anyone surprised that the public no longer trusts, indeed actively distrusts the media, the politicians and even the sacred CEO’s?
Even that Bad Santa, Klaus Schwab, who is surely his own sinister joke, could be heard worrying out loud at Davos recently because the statistics show that the great unwashed are no longer buying what he and his buddies are selling. We do need a Great Reset, but not his version, thank you. We’ve had it with the Elites and their fine global plans for us. For example, Abacus Data in Canada and the global PR behemoth Edelman released stats that show how disaffected the ordinary citizen has become. Abacus combed through the data and concluded that
More than half of those interviewed found themselves agreeing with the statement “official government accounts of events can’t be trusted.
For years there has been evidence that trust in institutional sources of information is more skeptically received – but these numbers point to a challenge that is bigger, and more influential in the political life of Canada than might have been expected. It’s harder for people to agree on what to do to solve collective problems if they don’t trust the basic information on offer by official and news sources.
Oh dear. They might have thought of that before they began lying as a matter of course.
Edelman Trust Canada agrees:
Majority of Canadians worry they are being misled by societal leaders – Around two thirds of Canadians believe journalists and reporters (61%) and business leaders (60%) are purposely trying to mislead them, with government not far behind (58%). Further, less than half of Canadians view government leaders and CEOs as trustworthy (government leaders at 43% and CEOs at 36%).
It shouldn’t come as a shock that in a country with Trudeau as Prime Minister, there is significant disillusionment. As I write this, six million unvaccinated Canadians still cannot leave the country, the airports are in a permanent state of chaos (don’t fly here) and we are proud to offer you gas at the highest prices in the world! Meanwhile, the federal spokesperson for public health, the unelected Teresa Tam (on excellent terms with the WHO) is ‘warning’ Canadians that a seventh (!) wave is coming in the fall and better get ready. It doesn’t help that she looks like a distant relative of the Addams Family. Rates of depression and opioid deaths have reached all-time highs along with food prices. We’re all trying to pretend that everything is ‘back to normal’ but it’s a sham. The stench of a society rotting from the head down is impossible to ignore.
And maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe it’s a sign that we will survive as a free society, after all. You can’t fix something until you define, name, and describe it. That is what is currently going on, painful though it is.
The time has come, the Walrus said, to think of many things. Like reckoning with the social wreckage reaped from 2.5 years of bad faith, relentless fear mongering and lies at the highest level. It is the direct result of a propaganda campaign nobody has seen since WW2. In fact, it put Hitler’s propaganda mantra -Tell the Big Lie—to the test and discovered that yes, it does work. The bigger the lie, the better the compliance. Half the population in Victoria still wears masks—outside! Confusion and dissension on any Covid related subject are the order of the day. We are a society in free fall, fraying and frightened.
That is what Big Lies do—they destroy the social fabric it took hundreds of years to build.
As Neil Oliver, former Scottish Archeologist turned pundit put it so succinctly in a wide-ranging recap of what has happened on the British GB News Channel:
…it was ‘how rapidly that which might reasonably have been advice became coercive…backed up by slanderous aggressive vitriolic shaming rhetoric…if they really are doing it for our own good, they wouldn’t need to force it. My wife and I decided at the beginning (of the vaccines) to simply watch and wait because this was all new stuff, but that was swiftly kicked off the table—it was fish or cut bait, and if you didn’t do ‘the right thing’ they were coming for you.
They came for the entire scientific community that dared to question and disagree with the ‘official story’ courtesy of our captured media, who were repeating lies that only served Big Pharma. They have reaped Billions (!) while the long-term consequences of taking the vaccines are now emerging. It’s a horrifying picture. (see below) The dissenting doctors were shut up and if they refused, were hounded, and lost their licence to practice. A few banded together and are still standing today; and everyone who signed the Great Barrington Declaration has been vindicated. All of them were ignored and vilified by people who knew better.
Bret Weinstein, a classic Liberal fired from his tenured position as a biologist, said it best on Unherd and in conversation with Neil Oliver: I will be vindicated. I hope he is correct. Neil Oliver’s insight that The State no longer has your back echoes what the statistics tell us about plummeting levels of trust in government and its agencies:
Perhaps it’s time to do a recap of the Big Lies we’ve been fed. I know everyone is tired and dismayed and maybe we no longer want to think about this at all. I too would much rather have cocktails on the beach and think about nothing, but the times seem to be against it.
Forgive me for sounding rather portentous, but I believe that only a grassroots demand for a public Mea Culpa will restore what has been squandered. This public conversation should focus on the mistakes, the arrogance and the lack of trust the Elites showed to the average person. Such a conversation could save us from living forever in a society of deep divisions, distrust and ultimately, decline. Trust is a two-way street. The pandemic proved that our Dear Leaders do not trust citizens to behave in a responsible manner. They opted for collective fear-mongering and bullying. So, they shouldn’t be surprised that we no longer trust them, either.
Lest we forget, here are the Ten Big Lies forced on the public:
Lie the First: the Covid virus is as dangerous as the Spanish Flu, which killed roughly six people in every thousand. We’re still arguing about what the actual death rate of Covid-19 is because, you guessed it, our stats cannot be trusted either. In the US, the number of deaths is said to be just over one million, which works out to slightly over 1.5 people per thousand. The actual numbers are dodgy because different jurisdictions counted differently. You might have died ‘with Covid’ or ‘from Covid’ or from Covid and underlying malignancies, or however you want to define it. The fact that some hospitals in the US got paid to report Covid cases and deaths added to the corruption of the data. All we know for sure is that only the very old, very unhealthy, and very obese are truly at risk of dying from Covid. Everyone else can survive this, especially the young, especially with early treatments. The entire Covid-19 scenario of lockdowns, masks and making ‘heroes’ of frontline health workers was flawed. Many people now believe that it was simply a test to see how much government intrusion and bullying the average citizen would put up with. We have our answer. And once you’ve established that all you have to do is cry Virus Wolf, and the people will do your bidding, why, it’s a perfect recipe for the next pandemic and more billions for some ‘miracle drug’. Or am I missing something here?
Lie the Second: We’re all in this together. We were all in it separately. The very old and frail were indeed at high risk of dying, but the rest of the population was not, least of all the children. The people with desk jobs could work from home; nobody else could, creating a highly unequal risk situation. Public transport is one of the riskiest situations in a viral world. But we continued to expect people to crowd into buses and trams because well, we actually couldn’t do without these workers. These were without fail the people on minimum wage, just barely getting by, doing three jobs. Did we help them? No. Instead of identifying who was truly spreading the virus, who was at risk and who wasn’t, we opted for one size fits all solutions that worked for nobody.
Lie the Third: There is only one way out of this: vaccines. A full-press disinformation campaign on the uses of tried, effective and above all, cheap, drugs and early treatment protocols followed. Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir were demonized because, well, we can’t have our profits tampered with, can we. Patients in the early stage of the virus were sent home, to cope without any support or early treatment, to die alone. Information on how to boost and protect your immune system with Vitamin D wasn’t mentioned, though it is highly effective. No, we were force fed a one- size-fits-all dogma. Doctors, researchers, and eminent virologists who disagreed were fired and demonized, their careers ruined. The Great Barrington Declaration was dismissed though the signatories were eminent in their respective fields. And that shouldn’t happen in a democracy. All of a sudden, the things we once prided ourselves on—open debate and respect for opposing viewpoints—became suspect. In the words of the Canadian PM, anyone who disagreed with his vaccine mandates were ‘people with unacceptable views’, racists, and worse.
Lie the Fourth: vaccines are ‘safe and effective’. Where to start? We have no idea about the so-called ‘safety’ because this drug has only been around for 1.5 years, we do not have all the data on how it was created nor what is in it, and after three boosters and more than half of vaccinated people getting the virus and passing it on, one can conclude that the entire safe and effective campaign was great for the bottom line of Pfizer et al, and a disaster for everyone else. The actual deaths and illness from the vaccines are beginning to emerge in spite of, you guessed it, another full press disinformation campaign. Strange and hitherto rare diseases keep cropping up and the rates of heart disease in young men is also at an all-time high. The Pfizer data revealed 34 pages of ‘side effects’ that were reported. Many were not reported because the VAERS system is unwieldy, and people are loath to report on mysterious symptoms they can’t quite figure out. There is also a well-known bias against looking too deeply at ‘side effects’ of new drugs. The drug companies have nothing to gain by paying attention to harms done by new drugs. They are routinely underreported. Acknowledging the harm that the vaccines have done is the hardest part and will take a strong stand by those who understand the scale of the deception. I salute the doctors who stood up and fought for us, their patients. That kind of courage is rare. One of them publishes on Substack and this is the most comprehensive data about the harm the vaccines cause that I have seen yet. https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/a-massive-spike-in-disability-is?s=r
Lie the Fifth: trust The Science because it is the Truth. This is so idiotic that it shouldn’t have worked; but it did. The very essence of actual science, which is to ask questions, to test what other scientists say and do, was demonized. We had to do that because otherwise, people might have decided against the vaccines, the government agencies explained. Yes, they might have, and many did. It’s called informed consent, and it is a legally enshrined principle in the Canadian Charter of Rights. They ignored it and vilified anyone who took it seriously. Like the Freedom Convoy of Canadian Truckers, who took the hit, in their income, their reputation and their freedom. I am hoping that the legal challenge to the vaccine mandates, mounted by a former Minister, will go all the way to the Supreme Court. In a Democracy, justice and the rule of law is not just a nice idea; it must be seen to be done. And if the decision is that the entire gruesome story of how vaccines were forced on the public was illegal, then maybe we can heal. Maybe we can trust again. But not until that happens.
Lie the Sixth: Pfizer and Big Pharma can be trusted. If you believe that, you’re welcome. I won’t bother to disenchant your world view. I envy your naivete though I am convinced that it won’t last the year.
Lie the Seventh: The virus came from a wet market in Wuhan. That was a convenient cover story for those people who think that gain of function research is ‘good’ for us. People like Anthony Fauci, who funnelled American funds to the Institute of Virology in Wuhan. Fauci is one of the primary players in a global game of chicken, which we, the public, lost. American money, aided and abetted by French expertise, built the Wuhan Institute, thus outsourced playing with viral fire to China. Fauci himself said that they didn’t want this type of lab in their own back yard in Kansas. All evidence now points to a long and convoluted story that began with 12 miners in a remote bat cave in China, who came down with a new viral disease in 2012. Samples of their saliva was shipped to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and there they played around with it, making it more lethal. And then it either escaped or they let it loose on purpose. Nobody knows what actually happened, (the Chinese have destroyed the data) but political infighting prevented the actual tracking of the story from emerging in the US media because Trump believed it. So naturally, it couldn’t be true. No wonder we have a crisis of Trust in the Media.
Lie the Eighth: Masks and lockdowns work. They work all right: masks do not protect you from this virus, but it is a convenient virtue signal to others of like mind. Look at me; I am safe! Lockdowns, especially of schools and small businesses, have caused immeasurable harm. The small business class in America, already struggling, has received a mortal blow and may never recover while the billionaire class just kept collecting all that loose cash. Most damning, an entire generation of children is permanently scarred by a lack of social interaction with other kids; the IQ levels are way down. Read it and weep:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-covid-cult-did-lasting-damage-to-our-kids
The devastation of small business owners is horrible and shows the injustice of our dear leaders who decided that we should eat junk food at KFC but must never dine in restaurants. And if you think that the Elites followed their own idiotic and harmful lockdown laws, please inform yourself of the so called Partygate scandal swirling around Boris Johnson. He will eventually be forced out because of it.
Lie the Ninth: there is only one correct opinion on the Covid-19 Pandemic and that opinion comes from the big public health organizations such as the CDC, WHO, etc. etc. Oh yes, and Bill Gates, the man who is already warning us about more pandemics to come, who really cares about your health, and really understands a virus better than you do…just read his book! In which he confuses digital and medical viruses…yes, this is a guy who really knows what’s good for us. We should definitely trust an engineer and businessman known for playing hardball to be our collective doctor. It’s amazing, but no matter what happens, he wins. He owns stock in all the relevant companies, and he is friends with all the Big Players. So yes, definitely trust him.
Lie the Tenth: everything is back to normal, nothing to see here, let’s just enjoy the summer…see Teresa Tam and Bill Gates on the next ‘wave’. Watch the inflation numbers, the gas prices and the homeless people, not to mention the opioid deaths and draw your own conclusions.
The Chinese have already decided that we, as a society, are headed for the dustbin of history. It’s up to us to prove them dead wrong.
Great breakdown of the lies we’ve been fed over the past two years. The entire hour-plus exchange between Weinstein and Oliver is superb, thanks for the excerpts. I think Weinstein has been red-pilled even more than Oliver. As a scientist, he clearly sees the smoking guns through the media-mediated clouds of misinformation.
Thank you, Monika, for your comprehensive and well written summary of all those lies we have been betrayed with. It is the same picture in Germany, but it seems that the truth cannot be suppressed anymore. There was a big report in one of the leading German newspapers (FAZ) about a severe AE (Adverse Event)-incident; this would not have been possible a few months ago.