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Kate's avatar

So true! All of this! I was a teen during the Hong Kong flu pandemic in late 1960s (between 1 to 4 million people worldwide died of this flu). No one panicked. Nothing shutdown. Adults went to work and kids went to school. There was little news coverage. We were hardly even aware that it existed. And that is how the covid situation should have been handled.

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Alan Roberts's avatar

Right

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Because it was never more than a common cold virus. I caught Covid in Cleveland in February 2020, and was over it well before the lockdowns. So did most of my coworkers.

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Alan Roberts's avatar

Exactly

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Elizabeth's avatar

A friend had Thanksgiving with visiting doctors from China in 2019. She and her daughter became very ill in an unusual way. They recovered but it was baffling as my friend was not one to come down with the flu or even a cold. Of course it was already here. But it was used as a weapon against the people. I didn't protest against the Patriot Act. Big mistake. What was to be turned outward quickly swung inward.

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Alan Roberts's avatar

Exactly

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James Mills's avatar

Experts, researchers, organizations are (in many cases) so insulated from reality and accountability that they have been able to skate along, playing status games and producing substandard products for years. That changed for all the world to see during COVID.

It took a few years for their failure and arrogant (false) certainty to be uncovered, and it's STILL being uncovered. Now there are lively discussions about misinformation and right-wing media ecosystems and demogoguery... but none of them want to acknowledge the truth: we don't trust them because they were badly wrong, and when it came time to account for their errors they lied. That's it.

https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/quietly-correcting-the-covid-narrative

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Alan Roberts's avatar

Valid

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Bill Beshlian's avatar

This makes sense. I remember speaking with a couple of my Nurse Informatics colleagues at work in November 2019. They were talking about the flu season was looking and an early growth in the rate of flu like infections.

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Alan Roberts's avatar

Right

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EK's avatar

I agree with your premise, but I don’t think it was done out of fear. They used fear to justify their actions, for sure.

In September, 2019, there were significant tremors happening under the surface in the repo markets, which is where the financial institutions leverage funding. That was continuing into 2020. Lo and behold, the banks got emergency relief in March.

They knew they couldn’t do a bailout like they did in 2008, so they had to cover it with other distractions. The covid game also let them introduce the shots to start culling the elderly and other vulnerable portions of the population.

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Dale's avatar

I have long since believed that there was no “it” but only a fraudulent diagnostic and 24/7 piped-in fear.

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TriTorch's avatar

You may want to read this: https://tritorch.com/PCRFraud

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