Excellent work! My background is in newspaper journalism (though I left the field in my late 20s over 20 years ago), so I appreciate articles like this that gather the evidence to show just how complicit major outlets such as the NYT were in creating the conditions for the unnecessary, ineffective, and damaging policies supposedly meant to “keep us safe” by “stopping the spread” and by, of course, “following the Science” (the capital S means I’m referring to the cult-like actions of the new religion of scientism, not actual science).
I remember being distinctly frustrated in spring 2020 when such media mouthpieces made Trump himself the spokesperson for the skeptics when there were already a fair number of courageous scientists and doctors who were expressing skepticism, and when it didn’t take too much of my “doing my own research” to find the conflicts of interest of the Faucis and Daszeks who were being lauded as trustworthy despite not revealing such conflicts.
It was the sort of “journalism” that my J-school professors would have rejected with a loud, red pen scribbling irritated questions all over their first draft.
Having said all of that, while the global breadth and depth of the psyops surprised me, having watched media misbehavior for decades and understood that the mainstream press functions as a sort of propaganda arm rather than as a distiller of truth, I can’t say I was too surprised by its COVID-19 era behavior.
And while there are still those who remain loyal to such outlets, the good news is that the past several years has ripped the scales off many peoples’ eyes.
Anyway, great piece and thank you for working with Madhava, who I have increasingly deep respect for, because that gave credibility to your work from the get-go and, maybe more importantly, it was through his page that I found this gem!
Thank you for this once again solid, awesome piece. The NYT, et al, should be discredited forever. I was working on a Substack about the conditioning to allergically turn away from information because the media associates what's most true and most important with what they've trained us to react negatively to. When I read your analogy of "cooties" ( https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/when-the-cult-is-the-majority?utm_source=publication-search ), it was so succinct and perfect, I borrowed it, with credit.
This is the first article, Part Two coming soon with a focus on measles / denial of treatment.
I'm surprised that ex-President Joe Biden didn't issue pardons to Peter Daszak and all the other scientists who were instrumental in the development of the COVID pathogen for their great efforts to assist in developing another vaccine that we didn't know we ever wanted or needed before 2020. We already know he pardoned der Fauscista; why not all the others?
That punch line applies to something almost daily...
Lone Ranger: "Well Tonto, it looks like we're surrounded by hostile Apaches."
Tonto: "What you mean 'we' white man?"
As to the body of this essay, yes, and there were many other clues about the bioweapon before the summer of 2020, such as the genetic sequencing with spliced functional sequences from HIV (the most studied virus ever) and the never-seen-in-a-coronavirus Furin cleavage site, which greatly enhances viral pathogenicity. There was also the Human-ACE-2-Receptor binding specificity, and early declarations from Luc Montagnier that it was a lab-modified virus.
The strains which swept across the world were not descending from each other in real time, but their mutations/differences indicated that they had diverged from common ancestors 4-8 years earlier, which only made sense if they were separately introduced from different lab strains, or, as with the Omicron family, had been circulating since early 2018. https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/11/13/omicron-predated-sars-cov-2-wuhan-by-years/
Excellent work! My background is in newspaper journalism (though I left the field in my late 20s over 20 years ago), so I appreciate articles like this that gather the evidence to show just how complicit major outlets such as the NYT were in creating the conditions for the unnecessary, ineffective, and damaging policies supposedly meant to “keep us safe” by “stopping the spread” and by, of course, “following the Science” (the capital S means I’m referring to the cult-like actions of the new religion of scientism, not actual science).
I remember being distinctly frustrated in spring 2020 when such media mouthpieces made Trump himself the spokesperson for the skeptics when there were already a fair number of courageous scientists and doctors who were expressing skepticism, and when it didn’t take too much of my “doing my own research” to find the conflicts of interest of the Faucis and Daszeks who were being lauded as trustworthy despite not revealing such conflicts.
It was the sort of “journalism” that my J-school professors would have rejected with a loud, red pen scribbling irritated questions all over their first draft.
Having said all of that, while the global breadth and depth of the psyops surprised me, having watched media misbehavior for decades and understood that the mainstream press functions as a sort of propaganda arm rather than as a distiller of truth, I can’t say I was too surprised by its COVID-19 era behavior.
And while there are still those who remain loyal to such outlets, the good news is that the past several years has ripped the scales off many peoples’ eyes.
Anyway, great piece and thank you for working with Madhava, who I have increasingly deep respect for, because that gave credibility to your work from the get-go and, maybe more importantly, it was through his page that I found this gem!
Thank you for this once again solid, awesome piece. The NYT, et al, should be discredited forever. I was working on a Substack about the conditioning to allergically turn away from information because the media associates what's most true and most important with what they've trained us to react negatively to. When I read your analogy of "cooties" ( https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/when-the-cult-is-the-majority?utm_source=publication-search ), it was so succinct and perfect, I borrowed it, with credit.
This is the first article, Part Two coming soon with a focus on measles / denial of treatment.
( https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/information-permaculture-and-cooties ).
Thank you for your thorough, inspiring work!!
And thanks to you, Ellen. All of our work spreading the truth is important, and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Yes, thank you so much!!
You wrote:
The headline was, We were Badly Misled about the Events That Changed Our Lives, and my question is about WHO did the misleading?
The answer is in the question: "WHO did the misleading".
There you go, solved it for you.
Thanks for your great newsletter. 👍
Yes to WHO, pun intended.
I'm surprised that ex-President Joe Biden didn't issue pardons to Peter Daszak and all the other scientists who were instrumental in the development of the COVID pathogen for their great efforts to assist in developing another vaccine that we didn't know we ever wanted or needed before 2020. We already know he pardoned der Fauscista; why not all the others?
Maybe his robo-pen ran out of juice after working too hard that last week in office.
That punch line applies to something almost daily...
Lone Ranger: "Well Tonto, it looks like we're surrounded by hostile Apaches."
Tonto: "What you mean 'we' white man?"
As to the body of this essay, yes, and there were many other clues about the bioweapon before the summer of 2020, such as the genetic sequencing with spliced functional sequences from HIV (the most studied virus ever) and the never-seen-in-a-coronavirus Furin cleavage site, which greatly enhances viral pathogenicity. There was also the Human-ACE-2-Receptor binding specificity, and early declarations from Luc Montagnier that it was a lab-modified virus.
The strains which swept across the world were not descending from each other in real time, but their mutations/differences indicated that they had diverged from common ancestors 4-8 years earlier, which only made sense if they were separately introduced from different lab strains, or, as with the Omicron family, had been circulating since early 2018. https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/11/13/omicron-predated-sars-cov-2-wuhan-by-years/