A lot of great quotes on the virus stupidity/complete idiocy/absolute mental retardation of the 2020s.
While there is an awful lot of idiocy in the world, the virus-response debacle takes the cake for my entire lifetime thus far, and is hopefully not repeated or superseded.
Proud to have been on the right side of ethics, science, morality, integrity, sincerity, modesty, intellect, logic, rationality; the right side of history the entire time!
a lot of great quotes on the virus stupidity of the 2020s
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence.
-- William Kingdon Clifford
If a vaccine that doesn't reduce spread, lessen symptoms or stop you from getting a virus is considered a success, what exactly does a failed vaccine look like? Asking for everyone ...
-- pseudonym Unacceptable Canadian Girl
We can't rely on how friendly or how trustworthy or how genuine someone seems. It hinges a hundred percent on the evidence, not the packaging, not the presentation, not the messenger, there's just no way around that.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
The 'vaccine' doesn't stop you getting or giving covid. So basically that means that not one person, absolutely none at all, has actually been 'vaccinated' against covid19. I've got that right, haven't I?
-- Paul R. Trotman
If you need to take it every three months, it's not a vaccine.
-- Maxime Bernier
I cannot say this more clearly. If there is NO short or long term safety study or surveillance. NO long term, INERT placebo controlled, randomized clinical trials determining safety. Then RISK is INFINITE and UNKNOWN. It’s not conspiracy. It’s math, logic and common sense.
-- Dr. Stanton Hom
Data from BC, which is quite good, indicated that the average age of a person dying from COVID was 85 and the gain-of-function virus reduced their lifespan by 1-2%. The experimental injections of mRNA gene therapy did not prevent infection, illness or transmission. This proves that there was a complete overreaction, the injections were fraudulent and we should have stuck with our time-tested pandemic plan which had been updated by the end of 2019.
-- D. Januczkowski
The most dangerous liars are those who think they are telling the truth.
-- William S. Burroughs
The risk of getting serious disease and death is relatively low. Now the mask thing. Several sources are consistent: the mask is not necessary. If you feel more comfortable wearing a mask, why not? But I don't think we need to be panicking. The last important message I have is the media coverage. It's disproportionate. This is important; absolutely no question about it. But it's not the only threat we face; it's not even the main one. Even in a worst-case scenario where everybody gets infected hypothetically speaking, ballpark 1 to 3 percent mortality rate, somewhere in there, for coronavirus. Very significant. But heart disease is killing 20-30% of the total population right now! No hypotheticals. And we know it's largely preventable. So it's not even in the same league. You're not going to hear this from the media because virus talk gets eyeballs and clicks. But the truth is, the threats from the usual suspects ... is much greater. Be aware that the exclusive focus on this is not proportional to the threat it represents for us. It's proportional to novelty and shock value.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Automatically accepting every official recommendation because someone told me to is not making an informed decision.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.
-- W. Edwards Deming
There are three ways to convince people en masse to do what you have decided they should do.
1. Explain your reasoning transparently, discuss objections and alternatives, being prepared to change your mind as well as theirs, and hope you come to a majority view in which they agree to co-operate;
2. Scare the crap out of them, which usually requires lying to them via deliberate exaggeration (of risks and/or benefits);
3. Convince them that doing what you want them to do makes them righteous, morally superior to those who don't do it. When it comes to Covid ... which approaches have been chosen? And what does that say about those who lead us and what they think of us?
-- Stephen Cass
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
-- Socrates
Simply ask these two questions. If your shot works, why do I need one? If your shot doesn't work, why do I need one?
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Any time you evaluate any therapeutic, you need to look at it from three perspectives.
Is it safe? Does it work? And do you need it?
Just because you have a capability, it doesn't mean that you have to use it. There has to be a medical necessity. There has to be a need for it.
-- Dr. Vladimir Zelenko
Too many reasons for concern to list here, so I will just remind everyone that 1976 flu vaccine was stopped due to < 50 cases of Guillian Barre. To continue forcing a shot that doesn't work and that causes harm is nefarious. There is no other explanation.
-- Dr. Molly Rutherford
The insanity of the Covid era will be talked about for centuries to come. The lies, coercion, bullying, manipulation, snitching and discrimination towards the unvaccinated spawned a toxic medical apartheid. Kids' education, businesses, the economy and relationships were also ripped to shreds at the altar of authoritarianism. Just despicable. So many people continued with this divisive, revolting messaging even though the facts were not there to back it up.
-- Dan Wooton
Some people feel the personal choices of others are selfish and need to be regulated. What's really selfish is expecting others to surrender their liberties so you can enjoy a false sense of security.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
Mandated medicine is a disgrace, now and forever. We know this from history, and that is why we have signed treaty after treaty edifying the paramount importance of informed consent. There is no more basic liberty than the freedom to choose what goes inside our own bodies.
-- Luke Yamaguchi
Joe Biden called it a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Andrew Neil spoke of punishing the unvaccinated. Jeremy Vine spoke figuratively of holding people down and forcibly jabbing them. Oddly, the smiling fascist Justin Trudeau of Canada called the unvaccinated racist, quite a leap that one. But as a spokesperson from [drug company] admitted in the Dutch Parliament last week, the vaccine was never tested for transmission. In other words, stopping you giving COVID to others. So what the authorities told us about stopping the spread with a jab was a total lie. Take it protect granny - a historic falsehood. Whilst safe for most - though we can't be sure; we don't have long-term data - large numbers of people around the world have suffered severe side-effects. And some have died. The conspiracy theorists, the tin-hat brigade, the so-called anti-vaxxers - who were no such thing, but simply wanted personal choice, were right all along. We will never forget the politicians, the corporations, and the high-profile celebrities and tv doctors who needlessly coerced us into having the vaccine. They've got blood on their hands. Never forgive, never forget, and never again.
-- Dan Wooton
Those who made a choice not to be vaccinated. They have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime. That's a pretty extreme level of discrimination that we have seen. I want people to know that I find that unacceptable.
-- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
The one raw nerve with me on this issue - that's Covid - and their overreaction in my view and their limited ability to understand that. Look, I want to be a team player, but you can't get inside my body. That has to be my decision. This is my body. This is my body, my health. That should be my decision. And even if it did affect you - which it doesn't because we know that having the vaccine you can still transfer it just as easy, or get it just as easy, so that's a red herring - but even if it did, it's still my body! I want to be a team player, I want to help everybody, but you can't come inside my body.
-- Bill Maher
If the unvaxed were dying of covid it would be blasted all over the main stream media in an ‘I told you so’ fashion. Sometimes it’s the things they don’t say which reveal the most.
-- Tobyn Pistoll
Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected.
The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
The autonomy of persons to make decisions, while taking responsibility for those decisions and respecting the autonomy of others, is to be respected.
No individual or group should be discriminated against or stigmatized on any grounds, in violation of human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms.
-- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
There is no ethical or scientific reason to require negative covid tests for unvaxxed people to participate in normal life when it is not required of vaxxed people. The vax doesn't stop disease spread. One day soon, people will be ashamed of their support of irrational discrimination.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The data show that the vaccines are not effective ... and the positions that have been taken by the government have no basis in scientific fact. It's hard to explain them as anything other than an attempt to impose control because it's not science-based and it's not health-based. And in terms of the 'emergency', there is no medical emergency.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
It doesn't matter how ridiculous the lie. As long as the lie is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
-- site: Big Think
It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed in advance of illness. And we want to mandate it? Insanity.
-- Alex Berenson
I feel sad every time someone tells me that they didn’t want the vaccine but felt like they had no other choice. What has happened in our society that we think it’s okay to coerce others into a medical procedure against their free will? This is not okay and must stop.
-- Rick Pittman
It is at the height of selfishness for someone to expect you to inject something into your own body so they may feel safer.
Forcing medical intervention on someone unwilling is unethical, immoral and reeks of degeneracy of not only that individual, but the society that accepts it.
-- Jake Maverick
The fact that there are still people convinced that their fourth injection won't work just because I rejected to take my first leaves me speechless. What's even worse is that these very people still think they are enlightened, extremely intelligent, and of course, right.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
I've covered the law on this. In my view, vaccine mandates are completely and utterly illegal, they're repugnant, they're completely foreign to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to our Common Law.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter
The median age of death in the US from C19 has consistently been above the standard life expectancy.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
It was a red flag when they kept saying they didn't understand the disease, but they completely understood the vaccine. Those two ideas can't live together.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
These people in these positions of authority have convinced themselves that they've saved millions of lives.
But when you take a step back; if you look at the big picture. Let's look at how many deaths have accumulated over time.
You see a gradient across the world of the Covid death tally, and it's going up before the vaccines. When the vaccines arrive that gradient should drop, because it should have had an impact, but the gradient continues on steady as a rock throughout.
You see in the data when [even the current strain] arrives, no impact from the vaccine.
-- Dr. Clare Craig
I often said to people during this ... every day I have to pinch myself ... a couple of times. I'm suddenly hit, as my rational subconscious brain says Ivor, what's happening can't be happening, it's too absurd. And momentarily I wonder, is this actually happening. And instantly of course I say it is. But that is astonishment that my scientific thinker's brain has, just observing what's happening. But of course when you bring in the understanding of mass formation, and a deeper understanding of psychology, and history also, that informs us, then it becomes understandable.
-- Ivor Cummins
It’s just time and time again. I think you’ve seen ideology placed over data and evidence. And then what happens is that they will say something like, okay, six weeks of masks will end COVID. So that’s what they claim — it doesn’t happen. And then what they’ll do is they will kind of move the goal post and say, well, you know, only 95% wore it. So now ... they will constantly try to shift, because they will never admit that their ideology was incorrect. That’s very, very dangerous.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
Nothing came along that made me feel confident of setting aside my initial gut reaction. On the contrary, all of the information that was coming from official sources was intensifying my feeling of threat.
And because so it so quickly became a slanging match, we were suddenly in the playground being bullied by big boys and girls.
And I thought this is so inappropriate; this is is an emergency facing the entire world, and within minutes, the best tool at their disposal has been calling people names. If there's no credible, readily understood argument that can be made in a low calm voice to explain to me why I ought to take a part.
If it's already at the point where they just say if you don't do it I'm going to hit you, and if that doesn't work I'm going to hit you harder ...
I've never got beyond knowing that that's why something is wrong.
They had to force it on people.
-- Neil Oliver
If you look at the data from Israel, and that's one country ... that has given four shots to virtually the entire population, and it didn't make any difference. Didn't improve hospitalization, didn't improve death, didn't improve cases. It was a nothing.
A lot of statistics don't get very much play in the regular newspaper. The truth is it rapidly became clear ... you were MORE likely to get Covid if you were vaccinated. For a while there, they were on their high-horses, talking about this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. If it weren't for the unvaccinated, then Covid would just disappear. Well they don't say that anymore. This is actually a pandemic now of the vaccinated.
These are statistics that are kept by the government! Even the statistics that they've got on reported harms are wildly more common than with traditional vaccines in which I have a great deal of faith. I'm tired of people who are getting dubious about the Covid vaccines in particular - which aren't even genuine vaccines - being called anti-vaxxers. I don't want to take a medication that's not going to do me any good.
Regular people were like hmmm, we understood why this was rushed to begin with, but we've had some time now to collect some information. The truth is those vaccine harm databases are probably about 10% of reality, which brings the frequency of some kind of negative, serious ... at least somewhat serious side effect to about 1 in 100; that's extremely high.
It's just not that dangerous of a disease. Now we're stuck with this permanent overreaction.
-- Lionel Shriver
I remember reading about propaganda in history books and thinking 'wow this is so obvious, nobody would fall for this today'. Boy was I wrong.
-- unknown attribution
Being a 'conspiracy theorist' is spending endless hours for years and years gathering as much information as possible from as many resources as possible and critically thinking about what that information means then having people who do nothing but watch TV tell you you're crazy.
-- pseudonym E. Galv
Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be colossally stupid.
When the vaccine making process has been rushed, there have been bad outcomes.
-- Jen Christensen
I want to point out the essential absurdity in this exercise, and I hope you see it. A for-profit company releases a product and every person on the planet is forced to come up with reasons why they don't want it. This is insanity. For any other product, in any universe that made sense, we would say it's the profiting company's responsibility to convince people that its product is worth consuming, not the other way around. The fact that they've achieved widespread, rushed, unquestioned consumption (and widespread vilification against anyone who has not) can only be explained by propagandistic manipulation.
-- James Edward Taylor
Flu deaths are down because of better hygiene, masks and social distancing … but US COVID numbers are ‘bad’ because people aren’t listening to hygiene protocols, masks and social distancing. Makes sense.
-- Eric July
It's a lot easier to tell yourself you're a hero than it is to realize you've been complicit in the biggest fraud in history.
-- unattributed, somebody on the internet
When people do their own research before buying a car or house, they're considered a 'smart consumer'. When you do your own research before putting something in your body, you're called a 'conspiracy theorist'.
-- Dr. Ben Tapper
Take all of the Covid-19 deaths from around the world, all ages, all-time, and add them up. The total is less than the number of children (ages 5 and under) who have died from malnutrition during the same period.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Scientifically, it makes zero sense. How can you force people to take a vaccine in order to stop transmission when that vaccine is not effective at stopping transmission?
-- Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, Florida Surgeon General
We’re all Team Reality now, folks, even if some of the bluechecks still haven’t caught up. The only question left is not how much good but how much damage those miracle shots have done.
-- Alex Berenson
This is not the Andromeda Strain. Yes it's a serious thing that we should respect and take seriously but ... life goes on.
-- Bill Maher
I trust the science; you trust the television.
-- unattributed somebody on the internet
Mandates, which are rigid by definition, seem a bad match for assessments of personal safety, which are, by our nature, flexible and variable. With risk must come choice.
-- FLCCC Alliance
Imagine demonising people who are protesting against mandatory medical procedures. The reality is that history will rightly view mandates the same way as we view other forced medical procedures.
-- David Limbrick, Member of Parliament, Australia
I'm anti-fraud. Not anti-vaccine. Give me a vaccine which works well. Then we can evaluate risk / benefit.
-- Dr. Michael Yeadon
Yet again Big Tech censorship is counterproductive and useless. Too bad mRNA vaccine fanatics can’t see the problem is their product, not “misinformation”. If the Covid vaccines worked, no one would be reading this. “Misinformation” is not a thing. Misinformation is the other side of a debate, facts and data the would-be censors don’t like.
-- Alex Berenson
And how long had the [brand name] and [brand name] vaccines been studied, when released for mass use in the winter of 2021? Two months.
-- Dr. Norman Doidge
I get a kick out of people who demand unequivocal proof before they'll change an opinion that was formed for them with absolutely no proof whatsoever.
-- somebody on the internet
Mask mandates were always an anti-scientific farce. They were nothing more than part of the scare campaign and the propaganda to brainwash people using fear, so they’d line up like sheep to be injected again and again.
One of the saddest things I’ve seen was the high percentage of people … in the open air wearing a mask, tricked into thinking it was protecting them.
-- Craig Kelly
The need for continuous boosters shows that the science isn’t working.
-- somebody on the internet
The COVID vaccines, the mRNA platform, is a complete failure! This vaccine will harm and kill and is killing innocent healthy people coerced into taking it to put bread on the table. The vaccine is ineffective (you may say it’s a gene delivery platform, an injection and not a vaccine and I agree) and not properly safe. It is dangerous and I state and warn AGAIN, do not take it, do not take any more of it, do not under any circumstances give to your children.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
Vaccine skeptics are the true critical thinkers. We overcame the most sophisticated forms of manipulation.
Regarding mRNA "Covid vaccines": anyone who would think for a minute, would realize that there was not a way to know for sure that vaccines were safe and effective, simply because not enough time has passed. Similarly, anyone could see that the masterminds behind the lockdowns and vaccinations, the billionaires behind the scenes, and the corrupt governments, all ensured that any dissent would be silenced. Thus, the purported consensus did not, in fact, exist at all. The minority of people saw through that, decided accordingly, and refused vaccination.
-- Igor Chudov
First time in history that the ineffectiveness of a medicine is being blamed on those who haven't taken it.
-- Robert Malone
A vaccine so safe and effective that it takes a court order compelling [manufacturer] to release vaccine data despite the fact that the government has already given immunity to the drug manufacturer.
-- David Freiheit
In science, especially biomedical science, you are never 100% sure about anything. Ever. Full stop. That’s about the only thing we know for sure, ironically.
-- Dr. Vincent Esposito
Trust the science is the most anti science statement ever. Questioning science is how you do science.
-- (unknown)
Can we trust big Pharma? Trust is for friends and family. It's not for corporations, and it's not for strangers on the internet either. In science, we look for confirmation, reproducibility. We have to scrutinize information, we have to demand evidence for claims, we have to fact check everything. Be careful forming views based on what we would like to be true. Science can be pretty cold, science doesn't care what we prefer. science works by criticizing ideas.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Blind faith in any institution does not make one honourable.
-- (unknown)
We do not need to force vaccination on healthy young adults, healthy middle-aged adults and children. The idea behind universal vaccination with a flawed vaccine for a virus that mutates rapidly is absurd. It is time to stop the madness and the mandates.
-- Robert Malone, MD
The unvaccinated are not a danger to the public. They are a danger to the narrative.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Seeing jabbed people spending 99% of their time with other jabbed people and getting sick constantly now should be enough to get some neurons firing in those calcified brains … but it’s not. That’s how bad this really is.
-- Pseudonym The Architect
If there is one positive we can take away from this entire Covid hoax, it's the way it has exposed all the evil people we didn't know where there. Doctors, nurses, police, academics, friends, family. People who we thought we could trust. It's all in the open now. We see you.
-- pseudonym The Architect
First, these vaccines ‘mis-train’ the immune system to recognize only a small part of the virus the spike protein. Variants that differ, even slightly, in this protein are able to escape the narrow spectrum of antibodies created by the vaccines. Second, the vaccines create ‘vaccine addicts,’ meaning persons become dependent upon regular booster shots because they have been ‘vaccinated’ only against a tiny portion of a mutating virus.
-- America’s Frontline Doctors group
Israel is one of the most injected countries, and it appears from this data that this represents a clear failure of these products to provided protective immunity against emergent variants and to prevent transmission.
-- Dr. Jessica Rose
Before there was a vaccine, I was allowed to sit in my college classroom with a cloth mask.
Now, when 98% of my campus is triple vaxxed, I will be arrested for stepping foot onto campus without a booster and KN95 mask.
What "science" are we following???
-- somebody on the internet
There is no scientific or medical justification for any of these mandates.
-- FLCCC Alliance of doctors
While a typical vaccine uses an antigen of the disease it is trying to prevent, [brand name] and [brand name] COVID-19 doses contain synthetic RNA fragments encapsulated in a nanolipid carrier compound, the sole purpose of which is to lessen clinical symptoms associated with the S-1 spike protein, not the actual virus. They do not actually impart immunity or inhibit the transmissibility of the disease. In other words, they are not designed to keep people from getting sick with SARS-CoV-2. They only lessen a person’s infection symptoms if or when that person gets infected.
These injections are not vaccines. They do not prevent infection, they do not render you immune, and they do not prevent transmission of the disease.
-- Peter Gyel
I’m not anti-science for refusing to wear a mask. Anti-science would be reading the label on a box of masks that says does not protect against viral infections and still wearing one.
-- somebody on the internet
We all know in the [brand name drug company] trial that was published in the medical literature, that more people died who got the vaccine than who got the placebo. In other words, the vaccine killed more people ... more people died who got the drug than who didn't get the drug. But see everybody is focused on how many lives we can save from covid, and they're not focused on how many deaths were caused by the vaccine.
Now three million people die every year. You just saved 10,000 lives, congratulations. That's rounding error! We turned this country upside-down to save just 10,000 lives. But we actually didn't save 10,000 lives. You come up with at least 150,000 people who have been killed by the vaccine. So you killed 150,000 in order to maybe save 10,000 lives. And that's if the actual variant matched the vaccine, which it doesn't.
And for kids, the risk/benefit is even worse. We kill 117 kids to save 1 life.
-- Steve Kirsch
I'm going to focus my remarks today on the elephant in the room that nobody likes to talk about: that the vaccines kill more people than they save. Today, we focus almost exclusively on COVID death saves and vaccine efficacy because we were led to believe that vaccines were perfectly safe. But this is simply not true. For example, there are four times as many heart attacks in the treatment group in the [drug company] 6-month trial report. That wasn't bad luck. VAERS shows heart attacks happened 71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine. In all 20 people died who got the drug, 14 died who got the placebo. Few people noticed that. If the net all-cause mortality from the vaccine is negative, vaccines, boosters, and mandates are all nonsensical. Even if the vaccines had a 100% protection, it still means we killed two people to save one life.
-- Steve Kirsch
Feeling sorry for those unable to think and use common sense. Do you logically think passports will prevent the spread of a virus even though the vaccines do not stop the spread. People have been put into such fear they lost the ability for rational thinking.
Even with 100% vaxed and with passports the virus will still be here. So much put into forcing those who will be just as well off with the natural immunity that everyone will eventually have. It is ridiculous what the government has done. The mandates have caused more harm than good.
-- Daniel Verkerke
Then to add so much rudeness and hate and discrimination to the ignorance, is mind blowing. What happened to these people's humanity?
-- Michael Schneider
Mrna vaccines should be withdrawn from the market now. No one should get them. No one should get boosted. They are a dangerous and ineffective product.
-- Alex Berenson
Freedom is not a reward for compliance. That’s how jails work.
-- somebody on the internet
Remember when they were beating people up and arresting people who were walking alone on the beach or swimming by themselves for not following some regulation that didn't even work?
-- Dr. James E. Olsson
For two years we've been held hostage by the irrational fear of those who think we need to flatten the curve.
-- Randy Hiller
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
-- George Orwell
This is about freedom - the freedoms that are being lost. We have, unavoidably it seems, given away freedoms in this country that were fought and
died for. There are a hundred thousand white crosses on foreign battlefields with Australians lying under them, and they fought and died so we wouldn't have
to rally, and if we did we had the freedom to do it. So these are not anti-vaxxers; these are people who are fighting for freedom that governments are taking away. We're seeing a government that is averse to any kind of risk, manipulating and controlling every aspect of our lives, and that's why they're there that's why I'm here [protesting].
-- Graham Hood
Austria is forcibly injecting it's people with a dangerous substance under threat of a massive fine. Belarus never had a lockdown at all. If Austria is a 'full democracy' and Belarus is 'authoritarian', I'll take authoritarianism. It's more free.
-- some guy on the internet
There is nothing more central to the idea and practice of freedom than bodily autonomy. It is the basal freedom from which all others are derived. Without it - as the history of slavery starkly reminds us - all other liberties are comparatively ornamental. For this reason, we must vigorously oppose this organized attempt to present the vaccines which have been delivered to millions under rather severe coercion.
-- Thomas Harrington
The traditional attraction of vaccines to those making public health policies lies in their ability to turn the vaccinated person into a "dead end" for the virus. Vaccines that have the capacity to stop the chain of infection and transmission in this way are said to offer "sterilizing immunity." Given that the vaccines have shown no documented ability to stop infection and transmission, the argument that one should get vaccinated to further the public good has little or no validity. Rather, the decision to take one of them should be seen as a purely personal decision.
-- Thomas Harrington
As the abbreviated clinical trials have shown, these are not sterilizing vaccines and thus no one can or should be coerced to taking them in the name of the “public good”.
-- Thomas Harrington
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Any claim that the vaccines are “safe and effective” must be seen not as factual, but rather aspirational. We will only be able to arrive at definitive conclusions about their effectiveness and safety in several years time when the full cycle of trials is completed and/or government agencies have rigorously collated and analyzed the results of their widespread experimental use among the public.
-- Thomas Harrington
The public health mandarins are both fearful and furious; they staked their political careers and medical reputations on vaccines that have provably failed.
-- Alex Berenson
Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.
-- Richard Feynman
Costing someone their ability to put food on the table runs afoul of free will.
-- Roman Baber
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
-- Charles Mackay
In a rational world the scientific and medical establishment would be long past any pro-mRNA propaganda. The jabs have failed. They were a (semi-)noble experiment, but they’ve failed. The proof fills hospitals and morgues from Tel Aviv to Edinburgh.
-- Alex Berenson
They somehow managed to demonize coughs, sniffles and having no symptoms at all ... but normalized strokes, blood clots, neurological disorders and 'died suddenly'.
-- somebody on the internet
Forty years of positive data on Ivermectin. But we have to ban it because they don't have enough data. Zero data on an experimental vaccine. But we have to put it in kids as fast as possible because the data says so. This never-ending doublespeak is mind-blowing.
-- some Marc guy on the internet
I'd like you to consider all you are sacrificing by choosing to embark on this Crusade. Precedents are being set, daily. What you have broken doesn't simply unbreak itself when you put down your whip. To get us to comply, you have erased the principle of individual bodily autonomy, destroyed the principle of unconditional rights and freedoms, and tossed out the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the freedom to work to feed our families. In short, you have normalized the idea that "might makes right" at every level of society. Tyranny always marches through the front door, welcomed by many as the solution to some alleged existential threat that supposedly can only be solved through "temporary tyranny". As always, we are told that this time is different. It never is.
-- Julius Ruechel
At the beginning, the very beginning, the hide-in-the-basement, stock-up-on-bottled-water, shut-down-the-world-the-plague-is-here panic made sense. Maybe. But within a few weeks, even as the United States and Europe had just begun lockdowns, anyone paying attention could see the cure was worse than the disease. In our desperation to control Covid-19, we had done more damage to ourselves and the world than the virus ever could. By then, though, it was already too late.
-- Alex Berenson
We vaccinated 4 billion people … and you’ll never believe what happened next. Daily COVID infections [graph of skyrocketing] worldwide since the epidemic began. Just imagine how bad things would be if we didn’t have vaccines.
-- Alex Berenson
If you're going to mandate something, it needs to have a very clear public-health rationale. I don't believe that coercion is a line that any physician, any government should cross.
-- Dr. Martha Fulford
Regarding the genetic covid vaccines, the science is settled: they’re not working. They are not completely safe. These genetic vaccines are leaky, they have poor durability, and even if every man, woman and child in the United States were vaccinated, these products cannot achieve herd immunity and stop covid. They are not completely safe and the full nature of the risks remain unknown. If there is risk, there must be choice.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
People think the problem is the unvaxxed, when the real problem is stupidity.
-- DJ Lange
Where is all the data that supports mandates? They're not looking at hard science and hard data. They're going with a 'well it feels good to have a mandate'.
-- Alex Villanueva, Los Angeles County Sheriff
What is mass formation psychosis? Psychosis is when people lose some contact with reality. Mass formation psychosis is when a large part of a society focuses its attention to a leader(s) or a series of events and their attention focuses on one small point or issue. Followers can be hypnotized and be led anywhere, regardless of data proving otherwise.
-- somebody on the internet
I don't actually think that anyone was changed by the last two years. I think people's essential natures were revealed by the last two years. I think a lot of uncomfortable realities and truths were simply laid bare by the last two years.
-- Neil Oliver
Does a perfectly healthy person have a moral obligation to his fellow man to take a medicine with unknown risks, that will only offer him some temporary protection against something the would more than likely defeat naturally? I’d also like to add that this medicine does not prevent others (even others who have taken said medicine) from getting sick from you.
-- Jonathan Renaud
Suggesting shots aren’t dangerous because you got them and are fine is like saying that Russian Roulette isn’t dangerous because you played and survived. It’s called gaslighting.
-- somebody on the internet
Where no coherent claim can be made that vaccination is for the “greater good,” to remove personal choice from the equation by premising employment upon taking a medically unnecessary and possibly injurious vaccine is unconscionable.
Politicians appear to believe that “getting people vaccinated,” the justification for these requirements, is an end in and of itself, regardless of whether it does anything to reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, not to mention improve public health overall.
Mask mandates fare no better. For two years, study after study has confirmed what could not escape the objective, casual observer: that community masking with cloth and surgical masks does nothing to slow the spread of COVID-19, despite the attempts of politicians and compromised scientists to twist results of this research to claim otherwise.
Mandates that serve no legitimate public health purpose and are instituted merely to punish the noncompliant should have no place in a civilized or democratic society.
-- Jenin Younes
By maintaining the pretence that people have a real choice between being vaccinated or being stripped of their employment, schooling, social interactions and travels, governments seek to coerce and manipulate without triggering charter protections. The strategy is to accomplish indirectly what could be unconstitutional if they enforced it directly.
-- Bruce Pardy
The Omicron variant is a relatively mild virus. And to just keep vaccinating people and thinking of doing it again to protect the population is, in my view, now a waste of time.
-- Dr. Clive Dix, former head of UK vaccine task force
Three times more people died of COVID after the vaccine than died before the vaccine?
-- William Wallis
That’s correct. There are no analyses…showing the more we vaccinate, the more COVID deaths we have. That’s shown in over 145 countries, so there is a relationship. Keep vaccinating hard; we’ll have more COVID deaths.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
If you scare enough people, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny.
-- Elon Musk
Regarding the genetic COVID vaccines, the science is settled. They are not working, and they are not completely safe. These vaccines do not prevent Omicron infection, viral replication, or spread to others. In our daily lives, with our friends, with our families, we all know that this is true. The facts, figures and analysis clearly points to a failed vaccination policy that needs to be reversed now.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
If you listen to what these experts say, if you read the largely overlooked documents, and if you actually look closely at the primary data from the CDC and [private drug company], you will find a story of American health agencies' misleading communications and a myopic policy agenda sometimes at odds with science.
-- Bari Weiss
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
-- Albert Einstein
The power of authority: how easily we do what we're told. There's a reason why Milgram's experiment stays with us today. Whether it's evolutionarily or socially drilled into us, it seems that humans are capable of doing terrible things, if only we are told to do so by someone in power — or, at the very least, when we don't feel responsible for the consequences.
-- Jonny Thomson
Thank you for teaching students that our own mental health is much less important than making triple-vaccinated adults feel safe.
Thank you for teaching me that even the most minute risk is not worth taking.
Thank you for teaching us that we should never question authority, or think critically, but instead, we should follow whatever the people in charge tell us to do. Obedience is best. I realize now that thinking for yourself is overrated and not really necessary when you can just make decisions based on fear.
Thank you for pushing your irrational fears and anxieties on me.
-- some America teenager
They're letting hysteria drive them to do really damaging things.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
You never, ever, ever start a vaccination programme in the middle of a pandemic. Are they insane?
-- Dr. Roger Hodkinson
To all so called Canadians that like or approve of these government mandates. Do everyone a favor and move to China, Cuba, Iran, or North Korea. I'm sure they would love to have you there to rule over your life since you enjoy tyranny so much (very un-Canadian). "STRONG AND FREE" it's in our god damn anthem.
-- some pseudonym on the internet
Never mass vaccinate during a pandemic with a vaccine that cannot block infectious transmission.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
We could start by ending the bullying and coercion of those who have made the choices to which they are entitled as free human beings. We could agree that a person has the right to feed their family without having to submit to a medical procedure of uncertain efficacy uncertain safety.
-- Neil Oliver
If you roll out large-scale vaccination using a vaccine that cannot prevent infectious transmission, you cannot control this pandemic. The virus will escape, all the time. You cannot win this.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
Our future will remember who stood up for the truth, lives, and liberties, and who made billions of precious humans needlessly suffer.
-- Joy Pullmann
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
No one person or group can claim the mantle of public health, and no one person or group can claim to know what is best for the collective, just as no one leader should make devastating decisions for the 'greater good' of society. Self-proclaimed public health experts are really nothing more than aspiring autocrats who happen to populate governments and academic departments.
-- Jordan Schachtel
Taking things away from people until they say yes is not a choice.
-- somebody on the internet
Bullies identify what you want then hold it hostage until you comply: your job, a degree, your kids’ education, etc.
-- somebody on the internet
Those who say vaccine mandates and passports are justified because polls show the majority of Canadians approve of them don’t seem to know that fundamental rights exist precisely to offer protection against the tyranny of the majority.
-- Maxime Bernier
You shouldn’t need an exemption to opt out of a medical procedure that has death as a possible adverse reaction.
-- somebody on the internet
Public health isn't simply about making the most medically prudent policies. It's about weighing them with social, psychological, and economic realities. Too often, it seems Canadian public health officials create policy in a bubble, ironically unaware that saving lives must be balanced with the need to actually live life.
-- Sabrina Maddeaux
No one has the right to make you engage in an act of self-harm. And even if the jab were completely safe, no one has the right to make you put anything into your body against your will. If you let them claim ownership of your body, you really can’t complain about what comes next.
-- internet guy Way of the World
So say all dictators and tyrants. They all say that their tyranny is for the greater good.
-- Don Boudreaux
If hospital workers in Quebec and Ontario don’t need to be vaccinated while working in areas of the highest transmission, vaccine mandates and vaccine passports anywhere are complete nonsense.
They must be dropped immediately.
-- Derek Sloan
A shot that reduces symptoms is called a treatment, not a vaccination. A shot of cortisone reduces symptoms of shoulder pain. A shot of morphine reduces pain generally. A shot of ceftriaxone can be used prophylactically to prevent gonorrhea. No one calls those shots vaccinations against their target.
A shot of mRNA that reduces symptoms of C19 is a treatment. We are simply treating C19 prophylactically. And suppressing innate immunity in the process.
If you thought repeated shots of morphine had some unfortunate long-term consequences, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
When they say ‘refusing to get vaccinated’, by definition of language it is not a choice. You don’t ‘refuse’ a choice, you ‘refuse’ an order.
-- Kate Wand
And more recent data from highly vaccinated countries show that the jabbed are casually a source of asymptomatic spread. The vaccine suppresses symptoms, but doesn’t stop or prevent infection or reduce viral load (some evidence it’s actually higher).
So, for a year, these ass clowns were scaring everyone into thinking symptomless, healthy people were to be shunned and feared. This was the basis for all the terrible, evil mitigations: lockdowns, distancing, mask mandates, etc.
Now that their beloved magic needle juice is here and actually causing asymptomatic spread, it’s crickets.
These people are evil.
-- Dave S.
Since covid vaccines do not confer meaningful protection against infection and transmission, and the risk of severe covid is very low for large parts of the general population, vaccine passports and covid vaccine mandates have no medical or epidemiological justification. Indeed, countries and US states using vaccine passports, such Israel, France, Italy and New York, have recently reported record new coronavirus infection rates. Thus, pressuring people into getting vaccinated (e.g. through a "no jab, no job" scheme) must be seen as a major medical crime and a crime against humanity, especially given the ignored superiority of natural immunity and well-documented vaccine-related health risks.
-- Swiss Policy Research group
Lowering “the burden on doctors and nurses holding our health care system together” is something that could have, and should have, been addressed decades ago, and has little to do with Covid or with vaccines. Canada has doggedly refused to learn from superior health care systems in France, Japan, Germany, Singapore, and dozens of other countries where “hallway medicine” and deadly waiting lists are unheard of. Instead, we cherish our ideological commitment to a dysfunctional government monopoly system that serves patients poorly. Blaming overcrowded hospitals on any one particular virus or disease is intellectually dishonest, considering the fact that Canadian hospitals have been periodically overcrowded for many years.
-- John Carpay
We live in a time where the courageous are attacked by those with irrational fear, while those with irrational fear applaud themselves as courageous.
-- Kulvinder Kaur, MD
It is not the responsibility of the unvaccinated to protect the vaccinated. That’s the vaccine’s job.
-- somebody on the internet
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-- Albert Einstein
Remember when you took evidence-based science and civil liberties for granted?
-- Dr. Eli David
In a real pandemic hospitals desperately hire as many doctors and nurses as they can. They certainly don’t fire them.
-- Dr. Eli David
If you still need a booster after been fully vaccinated, and testing after been fully vaccinated, and hospitalization after been fully vaccinated, and masks, social distancing & lockdowns all after been fully vaccinated? Then it’s time to admit that you’ve been FULLY conned.
-- Dr. Adam Aneevit
Lockdowns are to prevent ICUs from being overrun. So just in case you weren’t keeping track, Justin Trudeau’s government spent [$500,000,000,000] in the name of Covid, and increased ICU capacity by zero beds. You read that right, they spent $500,000,000,000.
-- Quentin Gardiner
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.
-- Mark Twain
You don't have to even be a doctor, or to even understand evidence-based medicine to know that these shots are not safe and they're not effective. I think anybody with half a brain can see that now. But it is amazing the power of fear, and the power of this narrative that we've been sold that our only way out of this mess is to jab everybody. And so people desperately don't want to believe that these shots aren't safe and aren't effective. Because everybody has so believed the nonsense that there is no alternative to these jabs to keep you safe, they're desperate not to realize that they're a disaster, and that they're actually the worst medical treatment ever invented in terms of safety and efficacy.
-- Dr. Charles Hoffe
Coercion is evil precisely because it thus eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and make him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.
-- Friedrich Hayek
The official government statistics from the United Kingdom show that people who are vaccinated have much higher infection rates than people who are unvaccinated. It’s an interesting vaccine which produces higher infection rates in those who’ve received it than those who didn’t.
-- Tony Heller
Nobody who advocates forced medical treatment on others is virtuous!
-- somebody on the internet
You do not experiment on humans, and consent must be freely given without coercion and include a discussion about alternative treatments … and an individual’s material risk of developing covid-19 or actually coming to harm from it.
-- Dr. Sam White
No person under any circumstances can receive any pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal concerning any biological product or medicine injected into their body. It must be a free choice after fair balanced and full informed consent.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
It is well known that fear tends to push people to look for a powerful authority to follow, and for scapegoats to punish.
Hence the rhetoric of the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’, despite that line not actually having a connection with reality.
Governments and statist politicians have realized that they can simultaneously spread fear by emphasizing worst case scenarios, while scapegoating unvaccinated individuals to redirect anger away from the state.
-- Spencer Fernando
It went from '2 weeks to slow the spread' to '3 injections to feed your family'. This is all getting VERY exhausting... Leave. People. Alone.
You do not need a medical or religious 'exemption' to refuse a medical procedure. Especially an unnecessary one. 'I don't want it' is a totally sufficient reason. You are a free an autonomous human being with rights.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Surely we are living in one of the most stupid time periods in human history.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
We must acknowledge that the waning support of the wider public cannot simply be dismissed as Covid denialism. Or as conspiratorial delusion and heartless contempt for human life.
-- Owen Jones
The false dichotomy between harsh authoritarian measures or mass death must be abandoned for good.
-- Owen Jones
As we approach the second anniversary of the greatest episode of collective hysteria in our history, it is noticeable how little has been achieved by all the incredibly damaging, unprecedented measures taken.
Yet we still have many among us, in positions of great power, who want to carry on doing things which have not worked, in the hope that it will be different the next time.
-- Peter Hitchens
The problem here is that you have to realize that the people making these decisions are also human. Don't put them on pedestals. Use your rational capacity. Think. Be objective. Question. Science is not done by consensus. We're meant to question. It's not scientism; science is not a religion.
-- Dr. Sam Dube
Science that can't be questioned is propaganda.
-- all sorts of people
Science is never settled. If you feel the need to protect science via censorship – it’s propaganda, not science.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Doctors and scientists had to follow a very specific narrative. That’s not science, that’s propaganda.
-- Joe Rogan
They’d rather cancel surgeries than uphold the constitution. This is not about health at all, this is just about control.
-- Will Kalisz
No matter how noble someone feels their cause is – they lose all moral authority if they break the law to achieve it.
-- The RN Rant persona
It's not "the unvaxed". It's being lawfully vax free. The fact that so many have not taken the time to research and educate themselves about the harms and the law as they followed blindly in compliance willingly sacrificing all freedoms is what the evil tyrants have been feeding off of as they watch the segregation unfolding.
-- somebody on the internet
This vaccine does not protect you from covid. It does, however, protect you from governmental oppression ... for now, that is.
-- Christine Anderson, Member of European Parliament
There's only one side of this debate that is trying to censor the other side. Why would you trust the side that is censoring people?
-- somebody on the internet
Only people desperate to hide their lies want to control free speech.
-- pseudonym Catturd
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
-- Ayn Rand
Don’t take security in the false refuge of consensus.
-- Christopher Hitchens
If you’re waiting for the government to ‘give’ you your freedom back then you’re already a slave.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Covid deaths are heavily biased toward the elderly and chronically ill, vaccine deaths seem to be heavily biased toward the young and healthy. What kind of society sacrifices the lives of the young and innocent for the decrepit?
-- pseudonym Leaky Vaccine
The ‘vaccinated’ operate under a thin veil of illusion that they are somehow safe. Data for so many countries illustrate that ‘vaccination’ is not protection, and less so all the time.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
Science has never been about one person, like [US health bureaucrat] saying "I am the science". Not only is it arrogant, it's incredibly dangerous for progress that might be stymied by that.
-- Rand Paul
A lot of people talk about mandating, and legislation, and policy, and restrictions. It's just evil. It's as simple as that. I'm tired of this rhetoric from politicians and people in the media, who make out as if it's inevitable, it's going to happen, so we're doing it. This is tyranny, it's fascism, it's wrong, it should not be happening. Where are people's rights, our human rights, our right to choose what we do with our bodies? Who has those powers to say no we're taking those rights away from you.
They should not have those powers. Any government that can legislate to give anybody a medical intervention whether they want it or not is pure tyrannical, and it is evil.
-- Richard Taylor
Don't talk about breakthroughs; these are not breakthroughs. These are naturally-occurring infections that have to occur because there is no immunity against infection against Covid-19. Whether you take an inactivated vaccine or a gene-based vaccine is entirely immaterial. There is no basis whatsoever for any intramuscular vaccination. There is no basis. And every attempt is bound ... is doomed to fail.
-- Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi
"After 20 months, I have concluded that pandemic policies are driven by people with paranoid ideation and/or severe anxiety disorders."
-- Gil Nimni, MD
The alarmism today. It's as if there's actually a competition going on: who can scare people the most. I guess during the pandemic, many world leaders have had some practice at this.
-- Nigel Farage
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-- Albert Einstein
Let's convince the unvaxxed that its a good thing... and it works... while convincing the vaxxed that it doesn't work and they need a 3rd... 4th... anyone else see a problem in this logic?
-- March Jay
The protected need to be protected from the unprotected, by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.
This is the new $cience, do not question it.
-- Dan Ellison
Still have yet to hear any media outlet talk about the immune system and how it works. Why?
-- somebody on the internet
Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?
-- Cristie Rose
It’s freaking scary how easy it is to brainwash large swathes of the population. It’s absolutely terrifying.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
No one should have the right to deny you making a living based on the possibility you might get sick some day. But sadly, this is becoming a reality. THAT makes me sick!
-- Robert D Humphreys
It is not the goal that renders a system oppressive; it is always the methods by which the goal is pursued.
When a political elite pushes an agenda this hard, and resort to extortion and manipulation to get their way, you can almost always be sure your benefit is definitely not what they had at heart.
As far as I am concerned, I will not be vaccinated with anything that has not been properly vetted and tested, and has shown no sound scientific evidence that the benefits outweigh the disease itself in possible long term side effects, which to this day we don't know anything about.
I will not be reduced to a mere guinea pig by getting vaccinated with an experimental drug, and I will most assuredly not get vaccinated because my government tells me to and promises in return, I will be granted freedom. Let’s be clear about one thing: no one grants me freedom, for I am a free person.
-- Christine Anderson
The worst part of the past 20 months has been the non-stop assault on peaceful people.
Decent people who are just trying to mind their business, enjoy life, take care of families, and not hurt each other; being demonised, imprisoned, shamed, bullied, and treated like criminals.
Stop treating innocent people like criminals. Stop treating healthy people like they are diseased. Stop treating peaceful people like they are violent.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I feel like the past 20 months have largely consisted of people trying to convince me to be as afraid as they are. And them getting mad at me for refusing to be.
People now think that being more afraid than you makes them a better person. Many even take pride in their unhinged levels of hysteria. Cowardice is not a virtue though. And never will be.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Covid will be endemic.
We can entrench the segregationist, repressive, unscientific, fascist approach of the past 2 years.
Or we can focus on protecting the most vulnerable and get back to normal life.
-- Maxime Bernier
Anyone that supports a Vaccine Passport should not attend any Remembrance Day Ceremonies. That would be a further slap in the face to our fallen heroes. They sacrificed their lives and defeated the ancestors of our current oppressors. They did this to give us personal rights and freedoms as individual people. I would rather see the Vaccine supporters protest the bravery of our heroes, instead of hypocritically pretending to support their bravery.
-- Scott Sheppard
Tonight I was at a restaurant and saw a screen showing a baseball game. Tens of thousands of people in the stands, packed in, no masks in sight. I’m sure almost all of them older than school age, meaning at higher risk of transmission and infection.
Masking in school is pure theater, devoid of scientific justification. Those advocating the masking of school-aged kids are advocating child abuse.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
The government is now making noises that sound ominously like last year. It's like Groundhog Day. It's absolutely where we were last year. But the difference was that last year we didn't have almost all of the adult population vaccinated. And we were told that that was the answer.
We're being treated like children. We're being groomed. I actually feel that I'm being groomed by an abusive partner. We're having these things dangled all of the time and then taken away and we're being punished for being naughty. Look guys - if you're not good, if you don't behave you're going to be on the detention step, and that means no Christmas. If you don't behave, we will take Christmas away from you again. And of course it all comes back to that dreaded chorus, that dreaded refrain to protect the NHS.
Please, please, please stop telling me to protect the NHS. Stop telling me. Stop assuming that I will sacrifice my life, my freedom, everything about my existence, to protect the NHS. The NHS is supposed to protect us, and the idea that I and you and the citizens of this country take secondary importance to an organization that we pay for is not acceptable anymore. We do not accept that we have to do anything to protect the NHS.
We mustn't forget that we've actually had winter crises in the NHS for the last two decades. We can find those headlines going back as far as 2000, probably further, and people waiting 16 hours in ambulances which is absolutely outrageous. No one should be waiting 16 hours in an ambulance, but this is not new and yes covid may put a bit of extra pressure on that but let's not also forget that in the last 10 years the number of beds available in the NHS has gone down dramatically, so we have less beds.
We've had 20 months. The government have thrown money hand over fists at testing companies, PPE companies, giving out lateral flow tests to people that don't need it. That money could have been invested in opening up beds in the NHS so that we didn't have this crisis. We've done nothing to prepare for this.
We were told the vaccine was the answer. Obviously it isn't. We've done everything that we can, you and I and everybody else have given up 20 months of our lives, and now we're being told actually it's not over. The rhetoric and all the noises right now sound as if we are going into exactly the same position as last year. Can someone explain to me what the point of the vaccine was? I mean I thought this was supposed to have made the situation a lot better and yet we are being told it's going to be just as bad as last ... it could be worse than last year. Well, what's the vaccine for then?
-- Kevin O'Sullivan and Dr. Renee Hoenderkamp
Oct. 2021
Collective public health is a socialist communistic ideal and has no place in democracies. It is not anyone else's problem to protect the health of some stranger.
-- Brent Cutforth
If you can't question it, don't call it science.
-- PragerU
What it seems to me that public trust requires now is a willingness for an open discussion about the evidence on which decisions are made.
In order that decisions are based on the old principle that a democracy is government by explanation. It isn't enough just to tell people.
You have to explain why you have made the decisions you have based on the evidence that's available to you at the time.
Science particularly in the evolution of this pandemic, there are different views in the scientific community. Surely the mistake I think [political] ministers make is to imagine that somehow science speaks with one voice. That's not the case. We all know that there are different views among the scientists, and that’s why ministers when they appear at a podium and say science says x undermine their own credibility, because science never says something with a single voice.
-- Former UK Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell
If this was a real pandemic why haven’t the homeless been wiped out? Why aren’t there mass funerals happening every day? Why were the hospital staff being furloughed for the last 18 months?
-- Mike Loncar
For 18 months the (Covid) death toll was published on state TV every single day… Every single day. Now the excess death rate is rising to very worrying levels… and nothing from state TV.
-- pseudonym Dilliagaftiers
[People] are conflating (as is the media and government) the virus Sars-Cov-2 and the disease that it causes which is Covid19. They are conflating them on purpose because they want the public to think that the purported ‘cases’ of positive PCR are cases of Covid19. A PCR test can only detect bits of virus (i.e. Sars-Cov-2). It cannot tell you if you have the disease (Covid19). This is a huge scandal and straight up fraud!
-- some internet person
The issue has nothing to do with who is a scientist and who is not. The issue has everything to do with independence of mind and the willingness to canvas and investigate the spectrum of opinion, debate, clinical reports and authoritative documents, as well as the affiliations of their proponents.
-- David Solway
A solution to all of this is literally to just leave people alone.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The West is firmly in the grip, not of a virus, but of delusional madness.
-- Neil Oliver
You need to comply your way into gaining your freedoms!
-- JP Sears
At no time in history have the people forcing others into compliance been the good guys.
-- somebody on the internet
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-- Joseph Goebbels
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
-- Ayn Rand
Informed consent is not coercion, extortion, blackmail, discrimination, segregation, harassment, threats, or intimidation.
-- somebody on the internet
Government/health mandates have not made sense since ‘Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve’. Unelected power-soaked bureaucrats advising low-functioning politicians how to run the country has resulted in a mess of epic proportions that we have now and will suffer from for years.
-- Bob Morrison
Beginning with 'two weeks to flatten the curve' 19 months ago, every edict and restriction imposed on Canadians was supposed to return us to normal life. Each one has only further eroded our liberties. The 'new normal' they have in mind for us is endless government tyranny.
-- Derek Sloan
The fatal blow for a free society is the sleight of hand that convinces a population it's more important to restrict their neighbors than their government.
-- unknown attribution
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
-- Selwyn Duke
“Except for an extreme case, where someone is a direct threat to others, government should never force people to put things into their own bodies. That’s tyranny.”
-- John Stossel’
It's a common cold in the unvaccinated. The majority of people if you're healthy and well ... great. It's turning into what all coronaviruses become over time. It's turning into a common cold for most people. I'm not anti-vaccine; I'm pro good science.
I don't think we need to be coercing people into a shot where one of the potential side effects is death. In order to keep your job, you have to get a shot for which one of the side effects is death. Is that right? That's not moral; that's not ethical.
It's a benevolent mutation. It is acting more like a common cold. Viruses always mutate. And it's going to be among us for a long time probably, at an endemic level.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
If the vaccine passport idea was so great, supporters wouldn't need to resort to ludicrous comparisons like driver's licenses, childhood immunization booklets, or flu shots. They could simply show the science behind it. But there is no science - nothing but quackery and hatred.
-- Milhouse Van Houten
Covid fanatics aren't concerned with people's health anymore. Their goal is to punish dissent and persecute those who reject their narrative, even if it means further damaging our healthcare system and negating our fundamental rights and freedoms.
-- Maxime Bernier
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance”
-- George Bernard Shaw
Statistics aside this is not a vaccine, look up the definition, it’s a flu shot. When I got polio and Smallpox vaccine I did not get these diseases! The very fact that people are still not only contracting COVID but dying after being fully ‘vaccinated’ only proves this.
-- Rosemary Lambert
If I had 3 Smallpox shots in 9 months and still got Smallpox I would have some questions.
-- Danielle Kemble-Hudson
As someone who grew up in the Middle East, who grew up in Saudi Arabia, there's something ironic and actually quite amusing about this notion that face coverings are now mandated in supposedly free countries and cities. Again I've simply maintained my position. I'm not against masks themselves, I'm not against vaccines themselves. I'm against mandate, I'm against the use of the state or government force to force these things upon free people. We're not living in North Korea, we're not living in China. If you live in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Western Europe - these are supposed to be free countries where you recognize adults as adults, and adults are able to make their own decisions.
In a particular circumstance like this, we know and we've known for a very long time, that this particular virus affects people differently based on their age, based on their comorbidities, based on their general health. Lots of different factors, and everyone is different. Everyone has a different risk analysis and a different risk profile.
And the government doesn't care about you more than you care about yourself. The government doesn't care about your family or your friends more than you care about them. And there's suddenly been this absurd notion in this - all of a sudden it's like other people are responsible for your own health now. We've never thought about that before. If you got sick in the past, nobody would think to blame that on another individual. Just living life. Everything has risk in it. None of us get out of this world alive. People were dying and getting sick prior to 2020 and we've always had diseases, we've always had vaccines. None of this stuff is new. What is new is the level of hype, and I would say propaganda, that has surrounded this particular virus which has resulted in this global mass psychosis where a lot of people now are literally living by rules they previously never would have advocated for, or thought believable in their own countries.
And in some cases are even advocating against ... very, very anti-liberty, anti-freedom, anti-democratic policies, which is what it is. So I don't even call myself anti-lockdown or anti-that. I'm simply pro-liberty, I'm pro-freedom. I simply am advocating for what everyone claimed they used to believe a year and a half ago.
All around the world ... people are not running off of data and common sense, and people are not willing to have these conversations. The level of demonization that's been going on for everybody who is simply pro-liberty, pro-freedom - trying to label them as anti-vaxxers or trying to say that they don't care about public health or they're trying to get people killed. It's all absurd. It's all emotion, it's all programming, and I stand against that.
People keep saying trust the experts, follow the science. But that's not what people are doing. People are just running off of whatever they've been told to believe. They're not adjusting their positions when new information comes out and there have just been so many layers of absurdity and hypocrisy and truly anti-scientific nonsense going on.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Society is now being divided by manufactured consent. The ‘good’, those complying with government mandates, no matter how unscientific or illogical, are rewarded with freedoms that have been taken away by the inflated fear of covid-19. Like the basic ability to work, travel, go to university, or watch a movie. While the ‘bad’, most medically unable to take the vaccine, or those simply exercising their human and constitutional right not to take one, are being punished, denied full participation in society.
We’ve been pushed to the edge of a cliff through divisiveness and fearmongering, over a virus whose median age of death in Canada is greater than average life expectancy.
-- Dr. Emag Guirguis
It seems like more and more people are becoming giant balls of mental instability. Hatred and anger. And when I say hatred and anger, I'm not just talking about your average rude comment. I'm talking about a sick kind of soulless cruelty to the extent that they're publicly wishing for the financial and reputational destruction, imprisonment, and even the deaths of those they regard to be their opponents in some way.
-- Britney Sellner
When it comes to coverage of COVID-19, the legacy media is failing to inform Canadians on integral information that would help the public understand the virus better.
Many Canadians are unwilling to learn to live COVID-19 and obsessed with case numbers and strict public health measures, such as vaccine passports.
-- Anthony Furey
“The absurdocracy begins when countries receive protocols drawn up by the WHO and apply them as if they were a dogmatic salvation brought by the gods, ceasing to apply their own scientific knowledge, ethics, deontology, critical thinking and verification effectively and clinic of those protocols acquired as their own. Suddenly almost all health workers stop having a logical task of control and care of their patients to become practically mere machines that follow the protocols regardless of their logic and result, or the evidence that can be interpreted from their application.”
-- Vaccine Choice Canada
That is what is massively depressing – the ease with which totalitarian police states have emerged across the board with scarcely a murmur of protest.
-- somebody on the internet
I am preparing myself against the urge to vomit when I see the usual knee-jerk wearing of poppies in October (the competitive virtue-signalling gets earlier by the year) by the zombies who have absolutely no f**king idea what it’s all about. Watch the masked bands of hypocrites at the Cenotaph insulting the dead by tremulously wearing masks as wreaths are laid.
'Land of the Free' ... "
-- Rick H
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity towards those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
-- Bertrand Russel
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
-- Christopher Hitchens
Firing hospital staff over vaccination status wouldn’t even be a possible consideration in a real pandemic.
-- Daniel Alexander
“The majority of Canadians have been clamouring for vaccine passports as a way to make them feel safer about COVID-19. But while feeling safe isn’t the same as actually being safe, politicians are rushing ahead with these polarizing policies anyway.”
-- Anthony Furey
Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it.
Imagine a virus so deadly people must be coerced into taking a jab to protect themselves against it.
Imagine a vaccine so safe that the government granted them a blanket immunity against all financial liability for adverse reactions to it. Imagine how safe the manufacturer believes the vaccine to be for them to demand such immunity in the first place.
-- some people on the internet
As a very high % of our population is "fully" vaccinated (or at least "partially") - we should expect that the dominant circulating variant will always be one that has a selective advantage to infect vaccinated people.
The fact that it spreads is PROOF that vaccinated spread it.
This obviously negates ANY logic or reason for a vaccine passport.
-- some people on the internet
“If you have to be persuaded, reminded pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized. If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance – you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.”
-- various people on the internet
The thing freaking me out is the authoritarian "next door." I used to wonder "how did the holocaust happen? How did Rwanda happen? How did Mao happen?" and now I realize the authoritarians are all over the place, lying dormant, waiting for something to scare them.
-- Jesse Parker
We think we’ve come so far … torture of heretics, burning of witches; all ancient history.
Then before you can blink an eye, suddenly it threatens to start all over again.
Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot; those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.
People like her will always be with us – waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness.
Vigilance … that is the price we have to continually pay.
-- writer for Star Trek
When doctors and nurses refuse the vaccine you know something is very wrong.
-- Cathy Hastings Jancowski
Society loves a scapegoat. It's comforting to be part of a majority that can point at a minority to blame for their ills.
The scapegoats that we are ostracizing today are those who are choosing not to get vaccinated.
-- Cory Morgan
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious who comes ambling along.
-- Carl Sagan
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
-- Thomas Paine
"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?"
-- Sam Harris
It was supposed to be a fight against the pandemic to protect the people. It became a fight against the people to protect the pandemic.
-- [somebody on the internet]
I detest inauthentic people. I highly respect authentic people even if I may disagree with their positions and/or behaviours. Authenticity is one of the great qualities of an individual's personhood. Many so-called "intellectuals" are defined by their inauthenticity.
-- Gad Saad
There are likely over a billion people in the world right now who are literally afraid to breathe fresh air unimpeded and who get triggered by seeing smiling faces.
It's horrible and the media is responsible for creating such a level of hysteria and distrust of fellow humans. It used to be 'healthy until proven sick' but now it's 'sick until proven healthy'. People need to understand that's a disease in itself.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
-- Charles Bukowski
The COVID19 vaccines are the only products in world history where failure of the products is blamed on the people who don't use them.
-- Kelly Victory
In a FREE society, there is no banning of information because it is "linguistic violence," "hate speech," "misinformation," "disinformation," and other fascist euphemisms. The marketplace of ideas is the mechanism by which you adjudicate the veracity of your ideas.
-- Gad Saad
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
-- CS Lewis
"Beware. In general, science doesn't work by consensus. If it requires consensus statements, it usually means that power and control are at hand. But it isn't science that says 'follow the science'. It's politics in scientist clothing."
-- Eric Weinstein
When we were kids, we were punished for lying. Now, we are punished for telling the truth. When you incentivise lies over the truth, you get more lies. And any society built upon deception is dangerous and unsustainable. So stop lying.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Of all the vaccines I have taken in my life like Tetanus shots, measles, mumps, polio, meningitis, TB shots, etc... Never have I heard so many lies and deceptions over a vaccine that says I have to wear a mask and socially distance even when fully vaccinated, and that I could still contract or spread the virus even after being fully vaccinated.
Never had to get tested when I was perfectly healthy without any symptoms whatsoever.
Never been bribed by the establishments to take the vaccine in order to win a holiday and/or cash prizes - tickets to the football or earn frequent flyer points.
I never had to worry about cardiac issues, neurological disorders, blood clots and sadly more!
Didn't even have to worry about death.
Never was I ever THREATENED by the use of FORCE by the Government, Employers, Police force, and Military for a vaccine as seen here in Australia and overseas.
I was never judged by my friends or relatives if I didn't take it. I was never discriminated against for travel or other regular services to a point where I could not buy or sell without it.
The vaccines I have listed above never told me I was a bad person for not taking them or for even taking them for that matter.
I have never seen a vaccine that threatened the relationship between my family members and/or close friends to a point of destroying my relationships with them over it.
Never have I seen it used for political gain. Never seen a vaccine needing 24/7 mass media advertising and promotion on every media outlet known to mankind. Then there’s mixing and matching different vaccine brands and being told it's okay to do it one day and then told the next day to not do it.
I have never seen a vaccine threaten someone's livelihood, as well as wipe out their jobs. I have never seen a vaccine that allows a 12-year-old child's consent to supersede their parent's consent (that one alone blows me away).
Finally, after all the vaccines (jab, shots) I listed above, I have never seen a vaccine like this one that discriminates, divides, and judges a society. So much information is censored, deleted, and removed from the internet and mainstream media!
So many doctors, health care professionals, police and scientists are censored and forbidden to speak out or ask legitimate questions when what is being allowed or not allowed does not make sense! Particularly when it comes from mainstream media. I have never known a vaccine that has made all the Pharmaceutical companies that manufacture it exempt from liability if it kills everyone to a point where no life insurance will cover it!
This is one powerful vaccine guys! It does all these things above that I have mentioned and yet....
It does NOT do the ONE thing it is supposed to do- which is...?
FIGHT OFF THIS PANDEMIC!
So why on earth would I get it?"
-- somebody on the internet
It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere.
-- Voltaire
“The cultivation of fear has been a centerpiece of public health policy since the beginning of the pandemic. This is plainly wrong. One might call it abusive.”
-- Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
"We have the ideology of Covidism, whereby everything must give way to the sole objective of stopping the spread of a single virus. Nothing else matters. Covidism's kernel of truth is that people make reasonable efforts to protect seniors and other vulnerable individuals but it perverts and corrupts this truth by imposing unscientific measures that destroy our economy, shred the fabric of civil society, harm our mental and physical health and drive people into unemployment, poverty, depression, anxiety and despair."
-- John Carpay
We basically have a society now that is traumatized by fear and therefore they literally can't think for themselves anymore. They need the constant reassurances from media and government that they will be taken care of.
-- somebody on the internet paraphrasing some doctor
The church was right to stop Galileo from spreading misinformation. As we know, the authority is always correct and conspiracy theorists like Galileo are always proven wrong in the end.
-- Tim Pool
Standing up for yourself does not mean you are starting trouble. Don’t allow narcissists to manipulate you into believing you are argumentative. You have a right to express yourself without always being shut down.
-- Maria Consiglio
Ask yourself this question – if government is permitted to coerce and compel what you inject into your body, who has ownership/control of your body and mind – the government or you? If you can’t own yourself, can you own anything?
-- Randy Hillier
Tyrants are not the problem. People obeying tyrants is the only problem. The people have the power and always have.
-- somebody on the internet
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
-- Herbert Hoover
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
-- Baron de Montesquieu
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
A lot of people are against losing our rights to tyrannical governments and having illegal mandates shoved down our throat. Hundreds of thousands of our young men, kids a lot of them, died protecting our freedoms and I can't believe Canadians are ok with that. I wonder how many hypocrites will show up on Remembrance Day.
-- Kevin Hankins
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.
-- Banksy
Standing up for what is right is never easy in the face of angry mobs fueled by fear. But holding the line is indeed what we must now do. Whatever our personal medical choice happens to be, we should support the healthcare workers losing their jobs, the dissenting doctors who bravely speak out, and all of the people attempting to abide by their conscience in these difficult times. We must defend the perimeters of our own bodies and reject the obnoxious idea that anyone else should be able to decree that we be injected with whatever they happen to believe we should be forced to accept. This is a very slippery slope on which we must refuse to step. If we surrender our bodily autonomy to the government, then we will have nothing left. Wrong is wrong. Do not comply.
-- Laurie Calhoun
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
-- Ezra Pound
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
-- Johann Goethe
Politicians have figured out a set of persuasion techniques that work like a charm:
You claim something won’t happen.
When it starts happening, you claim it’s not happening.
Then, you switch to claiming that it’s good that it’s happening.
You say anyone who opposes what’s happening is an extremist and is ‘putting people at risk.’
You talk about how ‘the vast majority’ support what’s happening, to build up the bandwagon effect.
Finally, you direct all the fear and anger towards those who continue opposing what’s happening, and who ‘dare’ to point out the hypocrisy.
Sadly, it works.
-- Spencer Fernando
In the current milieu of contending claims and ever-changing narratives, and the evident failures of national Covid-19 policies – heavily vaccinated Iceland, Gibraltar, the U.K and Israel, for example, have experienced a significant rise rather than a reduction of cases– the government vaccine mandate is also in likely contravention of Section 1 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It “guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
In the current context of statistical variance, inconsistent testimony, conflicting reports and factious disaccord among the experts, as well as the example of other non-compliant countries such as Sweden and most recently Denmark, the “limits” to Section 1’s abrogation are by no means “reasonable.” Nor are they “demonstrably justified” – they are simply imposed by decrees that are often concocted behind closed doors during moments of panic.
The collateral and perhaps irreparable damage – social, political, economic – unleashed by government policies is not in doubt. They need to be rigorously re-assessed.
-- David Solway
Understand the creatures doing this to the core of their being... their defining trait is their obsession with controlling others.
If you look at these politicians their own lives are completely out of control... insanely so. Yet they seek to control others with a zealotry that would make any cult in history jealous.
-- Alan Cross
What's not taught in school is that science is a way of learning what is and is not true. The scientific method is a way of ensuring that your own bias does not leave you thinking something is true that is not, or that something is not true that is.
Science is a means of querying nature. And when we have enough experiments and enough observations, only then can we say: This is how nature behaves, whether you like it or not. And that is when science contributes to what is to what is objectively true in the world.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The one thing you can say about mandated vaccines ... it doesn't matter whether these are the best vaccines (they're not even vaccines, they're viral-based genetic therapies, but for short I'm going to call them vaccines) ... it doesn't really matter what's in them, it doesn't matter what the side-effects are, all that doesn't matter. What really matters is this: if you accede to the principle that someone can tell you what to put in your body, whether it's the government or your boss, you don't own your body. And by definition, you're a slave. That is the only thing that matters here.
-- Dr. Lee Merritt
We were treated kindly in the beginning, "stay home and stay safe". But when some would not comply after the short curve turned into a year and a half with more and more restrictions... And healthcare workers, and families losing their jobs and businesses, are objecting to the experimental jab because of health reasons or other reasonable objections, we were silenced. Cancelled. Discussion and debate is shut down. Then we were told, then threatened, fined, then punished. While others who complied were rewarded.
-- Diane Earl
The current public health Zeitgeist of 'vaccinate everyone at any cost" has squeezed out any room for nuance or reasoned discussion.
-- Christine Van Geyn
Viagra began life as a high-blood-pressure medication. Hair-restorer Rogaine was originally an ulcer pill. The sleep aid Trazodone was intended as an anti-depressant. Medical history is filled with stories of repurposed drugs yielding useful or even miraculous results. Yet in the midst of a global pandemic that has taken millions of lives, innovation of this sort has become all-but officially forbidden. Dedicated physicians seeking new ways to treat their patients during the early stages of Covid-19 using inexpensive over-the-counter or repurposed medications have been harassed and bullied by the scientific/medical/regulatory establishment. [There is a] sinister institutional antipathy towards potential Covid-19 treatments aimed at keeping patients out of the hospital.
-- Margret Kopala
There’s a debate to be had whether the definite harm inflicted upon identified people for the sake of relieving some indeterminate degree of risk to others is proportionate. It’s still to be seen how many people’s lives will be upended, potentially irreparably, by these policies in comparison to the reduction in hospitalizations that is counted as their principal justification.
The vaccines’ inability to reliably prevent transmission should delegitimize mandates. The further disregard for naturally acquired immunity when it comes to mandates is particularly baffling.
-- Travis D. Smith, PhD
The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.
-- [multiple attribution]
The obedient view themselves as virtuous, never cowardly. Now that 'science' is admitting fault, people will say 'but I did my best and I trusted the science!'. Problem is - you were lied to the whole time, you're medically damaged, and you couldn't discern truth from $cience.
-- Dr. Brad Campbell
Imagine letting your family members die afraid and alone because the government forbade you from being with them in their final moments. Imagine patting yourselves on the back and considering yourself virtuous for allowing this. Imagine calling it 'for the greater good'. Imagine.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.
-- Booker T Washington
Being able to work, access public places, move freely, and travel in your own country and abroad are not privileges that can be arbitrarily taken away from some people by politicians. In a free society based on the rule of law, they are fundamental rights. Are we still one?
-- Maxime Bernier
I have concerns about the effects of this kind of censorship on public discourse and quite frankly on the advancement of science. Even scientists use social media now to communicate their ideas with the general public, with other scientists. And anyone who knows anything about science or the methods of science, or how science makes progress, understands that at its essence, at its core, science is about debate, it's about hypothesis generation, it's about offering conjectures, plausible ideas, and then testing them and refuting them.
So science just is conjectures and refutations. If you get into a room with a bunch of scientists, all they ever do is argue; they argue about data, they argue about their theories they argue about which theory best fits the data, they argue about big questions, and they argue about tiny little subtleties that only the specialist and sub-specialists and sub-sub-specialties would understand. But science is an ongoing debate; that's just what it is. So anyone who shuts down an ongoing debate in the name of science is killing science. They don't know the first thing about science. Science and censorship just are incompatible.
-- Aaron Kheriaty
Update: I am still unvaccinated.
I survived the greatest psychological fear campaign in human history.
I choose to operate at a frequency above fear. I see our media and governments for what they are now: powerless without our incessant fear.
The emperors have no clothes.
Once you wake up to the truth, your life will become yours.
Fear is a drug. Most of us are addicts, and governments worldwide are the dealers.
The more we feast on the fear they sell, the larger and wealthier these monsters become.
Any personal decision that I make will never be because of propaganda or brainwash or censorship or mandates or fear.
I am truly free.
-- Candace Owens
The latest ... “no jab, no job” is reprehensible in a land such as Canada. As a retiree and a school bus driver for over a decade now, I was given the option of either getting inoculated or face testing three times per week.
Both are medical procedures I am not comfortable with, so I took the third option — retiring (quitting). This was not my “choice.” I’m in excellent health for being 72, but I could take that third “option” when many cannot. How do you pay the bills and feed the kids with no income? Often, you’re not even eligible for EI or welfare, because you quit and the government took that avenue away.
This isn’t Canada. Forcing people to quit under these conditions is barbaric.
-- Ron Hofman
I had minimal repercussions from the covid. I had chills; I didn't even have fever; and I had a cough, and I slept a lot. That was the entirety of my covid.
I've had flu in the past which was much worse and much more uncomfortable.
-- Dennis Prager
It's especially sad that this [freedom from medical tyranny] is beyond merely a 'controversial' take, but totally demonised by a scarily large segment of the population who seemed ready & willing to put on a brown shirt and goose step against former friends & family who didn't fall in line with what the media tells them to do. We have more than enough data from modern history alone to know better than to go down this road again, yet here we are.
-- Kris Greaves
What is happening to us? You can’t even ride a chairlift (outside at a ski hill) without showing your papers? When did we become so complacent that we have to show our papers and personal health records to a hostess to sit in a restaurant? You can go to a mall and walk around sipping a coffee … but better show your papers to go into the food court. What’s next? Show your papers to walk on the sidewalk? And sports are completely out. Why are the vaccinated so insane?
-- Dee Bebs
Dictators and tyrants are often born through a genuine desire to do good – but when their approach fails, and relinquishing power would cause a self-inflicted wound, illiberalism often follows.
-- Aaron Siri
For my friends and family who have recently gotten their Covid shot or who know they will get one soon, awesome for you. I can see how relieved you are and I’m so glad that this option is available for you!
For my friends who aren’t sure they will get one just yet, or maybe ever, or already know that they never will, I want to throw some love and respect your way, too. I am happy that you have that choice. Medical freedom is important. AND let me add, SHOULD NEVER BE MANDATED
The wonderful thing about informed consent is that two people with the same information, can make two completely different choices and neither of them is right or wrong. That is what medical freedom is and should be.
There are benefits and risks to every medical procedure. Doing the “right thing” means you’ve weighed the risks and benefits for YOURself, and are making an informed decision! The only wrong decision in my opinion, is made:
>>purely out of fear,
>>>social pressure or
>>>>emotional reactivity.
If you have researched your decision and are comfortable with it....GREAT.
What’s right for one person, may be wrong for the other. Both, on an INTUITIVE and BIOLOGICAL level. We’re all doing the best we can with the information we hopefully have spent time digging into.
Let this be a gentle reminder *for all* to please respect each other and be mindful of the message we put out there. Is everyone “wrong” because they believe differently than you? They very likely have just as strong of a reason for their choice as you do.
So whether you choose;
C0V1D shot
No shot
You’re okay in my books and I respect YOUR DECISION
Projecting hateful language at others because they made a decision that was BEST for them, is NOT OKAY. This only creates more division.
-- somebody on the internet
This is medical tyranny at its finest ...
Cruel and unfair treatment by people with powers over others.
Violating civil rights by legalizing discrimination against vulnerable individuals susceptible to harm from one size fits all medical procedures and vaccine policies that fail to respect biological diversity and the limitations of scientific knowledge.
The government made it political, its not about health care ... no accountability, no transparency, using threats to push their radical agenda. As well, the media has been bought off and told what to say by the government.
Health care is about taking care of the sick, but we're not being very preventative about it. Informed consent is all of a sudden a thing of the past.
We now live in an age where we must fight for our freedoms and liberties, safety and securities ... for ourselves, our children, their children, our elderly, our military, our law enforcement, our health workers, etc. We are being grossly censored for having an opinion; ridiculed, harrassed, and demeaned for not conforming to the mainstream's warped ideologies.
We are trapped between believing the lies of the government and media versus believing the hard truths revealed by alternative, independent and unbiased news media. Our sense of trust has been decimated beyond recognition, as we wade through the dense fog of coercion, ultimatums, intimidation, blind compliance, unneccesary restrictions, relentless threats, and so forth.
Our Constitution is no longer protected, adhered to and looked upon as the laws of the land, something to be revered as citizens of our respective countries.
The idea that doctors all across the world are blatantly threatened and coerced into telling their patients to consume certain medications, prescriptions, vaccines and other health regimens which are completely against their oath of office, against what they believe is best for the patients being treated under their care.
We live in a free country, and as such we should have the power to do what we want to do, and have the ability to move and act freely without consternation, contempt, offence, vitriol, and utter ignorance and naivety from a detrimental group of people!!
-- Dawn K. Martin
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
-- Michael Crichton
[On employers not allowing exemptions or accommodations]
If we had the rule of law, they would be working a lot more.
A lot of these things, they only work if people are actually following the law, and they have a strong incentive to follow the law, and a disincentive not to follow the law.
The disincentive to loot the store is that you will be caught by the police, you will be charged, and you will be thrown in jail, and you will get a criminal record. That disincentive is usually quite strong because you're usually thinking ok I'm likely to get caught and this law is not likely to change after I get caught. So what you're having right now is like the images of looting in the States, and there's all these riots and stuff. If you have ten police officers but a hundred men who want to loot the store, what's going to happen? The rule of law is going to break down in that situation. Those men are going to loot, and they're going to get away with it. And that's essentially what you're seeing right now with all these employers all across the country. They're all doing this all at once, and they're getting away with it. And they're all seeing each other and saying hey, Bob's getting away with this; Jim's getting away with this; ok well we can do it too. Who's going to hold us accountable? Courts are on our side and they can't keep up anyways cause we're all doing this all at once, so we can loot everybody's rights and get away with it.
That's the breakdown of the rule of law and that's what you're seeing right now.
So that's why on both the employment law side and the religious accommodation, human rights side, you're seeing wholesale abrogation of rights, is because there's no rule of law. There's no disincentive to employers to not respect your rights. And what incentive would be there to respect your rights. Well the only incentive would be to not get in trouble. Like I said, that's not there. There's no public relations incentive, there's no human decency incentive, because if you're unvaccinated, you're socially and culturally regarded as second class, as a leper, as an undesireable, as somebody worthy of discriminating against. Maybe it's not as bad as, but it's analogous to being a Jew in 1930s Germany. It's kind of how the unvaccinated are being treated.
-- James Kitchen, lawyer
So disgusting to see the promotion of discrimination lately.
Someone who is hesitant or scared to get it should not be pressured, threatened with job loss, mocked, coerced or forced.
This is so wrong.
-- social media page The Independent Canadian
[Vaccine mandates have made a society] divided between people who think the government should decide what goes into your body, and are ok with discrimination - and people who know that all medical treatments are private and personal, and know it’s wrong to discriminate.
-- Eva Karczmarczyk Kryzanowski
The government is the real virus. The media is the super spreader.
-- social media page Freedom Matters in Canada
Remember when Canadians were looking enviously at Europe and their high rates of early vaccination? While Canucks were complaining about being at the back of the line European countries like Germany were injecting in Jan/Feb/Mar.....we didn't really get rolling until April/May.
So they're two to three months ahead of us.....and experiencing worse outbreaks than last year when NOBODY was vaccinated. How can that be? Occam's Razor has the answer.....if the vaccines really worked then things would be better in Europe right now, not worse.
And our turn is coming....we're just a few months behind. Keep taking those boosters for the immunizations that don't immunize.
-- Gordie Canuck
Some people wouldn’t know tyranny if it covered their faces, locked them in their homes, enacted the biggest wealth transfer in history, censored them, made them show papers, and force medicated them.
-- FrancisxONeill
"The government has a dilemma, they need to convince the unjabbed to get jabbed because it works while at the same time convince the jabbed they need a booster because it doesn't."
-- somebody on the internet
Next door neighbor is a cardiologist who treats covid patient. Two things he’s told me: (1) if you walked through the ICU, you would not be surprised by anyone you saw; and (2) take vitamin D.
-- K.B.M
Most people don't want the truth because the truth is so hard, they prefer to stay in their regular comfort zone.
-- [redacted]
You're absolutely right, we can't give up. This v@x doesn't even prevent us from catching the virus, neither does it prevent us from spreading it— so then why is our livelihood being held hostage?
-- [redacted]
They'll just convince people (it won't be hard at all really) that by getting a 3rd shot and vaccinating their kids, herd immunity will be attained. And then the herd will follow orders, and there still won't be herd immunity.
-- [redacted]
You are right. A lot of these videos are telling the truth. It's hard to believe that over 80% of the population don't or can't see it.
-- [redacted]
Are people really that ignorant that they don't see the facts, the adverse effects and the lack of effectiveness of these so called vaccines? I keep hearing trust the science. Guess what... there is always 2 sides to the story and there are many scientists, doctors etc that are showing that the risks outweigh the benefits. Just because the majority of people choose something doesn't make it right. It makes my head spin.
-- [redacted]
What I want is for you to make the best decisions for your health. That’s not my business, not the media’s business, not your boss’s business & not Justin Trudeau’s business. If privacy & individual health decisions no longer matter, we’re in big trouble. This is worth the fight.
--Jedediah Bila
Kids have a 99.9978% chance of surviving this disease if contracted. Vaccination is futile in terms of preventing illness, but they will make these kids more susceptible to autoimmune disease and infectious diseases generally.
These jabs for kids have no science behind them.
-- Greg Nigh
I am not vaccinated. In a sane society, a personal decision like this would not warrant a column, or even an explanation. But we do not live in a sane society.
The vaccine helps protect the vaccinated from dying, but it does not protect the vaccinated from either getting or spreading COVID. In other words, it seems clear to many of us that the vaccine is a personal health benefit, not a public health benefit. Therefore, whether to get vaccinated is a profoundly personal decision, not a public health decision.
-- Lisa Boothe
In Medicine, "Informed Consent" involves providing a risk-benefit analysis - based on science.
Ransoming a patient's social status & full participation in society is NOT part of that equation.
-- The RN Rant
Gibraltar is 100% vaccinated and about 40% having the booster shots. They just cancelled Christmas celebrations because of the high rise of Covid. If 100% vaxxed does not stop it, then it is time to open up. Take a look at Sweden, and their practice of no lockdowns, no passports, no coercion to get the vax.
-- Sheila Bell
I didn't think I'd be living in a time where we would have to have arguments about tyranny, actually, which is potentially I think, what is coming. I know it's a big, big word, but a kind of biomedical tyranny is possible. And I'm not talking about lockdowns, or masks, or whatever, I'm talking about where we could be going with this kind of technological division of society. That's all on the table now. And I never thought we would be in the position of having to argue that we should not isolate a third of the people in our culture for medical reasons. Or indeed argue that we shouldn't censor the
media.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
I'll start off by saying that, for me, it's always worth taking a step back and looking at the context. The decision to be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated, which ought to be a personal medical decision that everybody could take, becoming a proxy for something much bigger, which is a conversation about the kind of society that we want to live in. And a conversation about the authoritarianism, that is rising very, very fast for which the vaccines, or vaccination status, are being used as a proxy. So there are two conversations you can have. Firstly, there's the one about 'is the vaccine safe, and should you have it?' and that's a conversation that's been going on for a long time, which everybody is furious about increasingly, because this whole conversation has fallen into the ruts of the culture war. And that will go on, and on, and on. And again, as I say, it's a personal decision whether you do that or not.
But then there's the other conversation, which is about 'whether your vaccine status should be used to demonstrate your acceptable position in society'. Now, that is something radically new, that is something radically new. Conversations about whether a medication is safe - old as the hills, especially new medications like this one in a situation like this. But conversations about creating a society in which you can only access many of its services, and many of its positions with a digital passport that explains that you had a particular medication - that's a Rubicon.
We've never had anything like this before, we've never had the technology to do it. So what we've got is a kind of proxy discussion. People are arguing about the vaccines, but they're really, under the surface, arguing about what kind of person you are. If you have taken these things, whether you're a good or a bad person, or a clean or unclean one. I've been watching this for a long time, as we all have. And I think my personal Rubicon was watching what happened in Austria. Where it suddenly became acceptable to move on from vaccine passports, which were bad enough already.
But suddenly we have mandatory medication. We have vaccine mandates. Of course, we have what's been going on in the United States where people have been walking out of their jobs in huge numbers, because of this enforcement. And so we have this situation in which the scapegoat mechanism is kicking in. We can very, very clearly see the so-called unvaxed, who are often represented as 'anti-vax', or 'far-Right actors', or general
conspiracy nuts, becoming the new class of people it's acceptable to demonise, and abuse, and even threaten to kill. And that's where we are now, because of the choice that people have made. And this is being used to justify an authoritarian society, in my view.
The question you have as an individual is where you want to draw the line. And that's a personal question for everybody. And I'm drawing my line at
'lockdowns of the unvaccinated'. And I'm drawing my line at 'vaccine passport'. And I'm drawing my line at 'something that segregates us'.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
Along has come this other issue, which is also about institutional trust. Because broadly speaking, the thesis position is people who trust what the science is said to be, and what the government says, and what the public health advisors say, and is very suspicious of any dissent. And this is how they have managed to - and the justification for that - comes from, 'we have to protect lives, right?' A lot of people say this, 'well, it's very dangerous to question this'. So if you've told yourself that the authorities are correct, broadly speaking, and this is the way to go, and we've got an urgent situation, we have to protect lives, then you can justify almost anything. You can justify social media shutting down conversations, you can justify the media deliberately taking one side of the story all the time and ignoring the other one, you could justify vaccine passports, you can justify lockdowns of the unvaxed, what can you not justify if you get to that position? So I think that people, broadly speaking, who for good reasons, because they think this is a public health thing, are cleaving to a particular narrative, and are very frightened of allowing the other one even to come into the conversation.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
The whole of society has been pretty much terrified for the last two years of this virus. Now you could argue about whether it should have been that way or not. But because we're frightened - fear is a great controlling device. People are frightened, so they will accept things now that they wouldn't have accepted before. I don't think anyone would have imagined - even lockdowns. I remember this discussion on the first lockdown, 'would people in the West ever accept anything like this?' I don't know if you remember watching the first cases of lockdowns in China, and saying, "oh, I'm glad we don't have anything like that here, you couldn't imagine it in Britain". But it didn't take long for it to happen everywhere. Now again, I'm not arguing that it wasn't the right thing to do. But we've seen a very big, vast shift in what I suppose is a kind of technological Overton window, towards what we're prepared to accept.
If you talk to most people about this, they are concerned about it. But they don't connect it with this, because a lot of people feel, 'look, we just have to get rid of this, this is really frightening and it's dangerous'. It is dangerous. I'm not playing this down at all. If you're elderly and vulnerable it's a nasty thing, and you need to be very careful with it. I'm not suggesting a sort of blase attitude to the virus. But what we're accepting in the name of tackling it is becoming increasingly disturbing.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
There's so many fractures and cracks in Western society. This COVID has acted like a literally apocalyptic thing. Because the word 'apocalypse' literally means 'revelation'. It's shown us a lot of things about our society that we could afford to avoid before. One of them being how utterly broken the whole thing was and how fractured. And the ideal scenario would be that there are no coercive measures, especially coercive measures that divide people. So you might want to argue about lockdowns, but a lockdown is a coercive measure that involves everybody. Okay, so fine, that's one thing. A vaccine mandate is a coercive measure that divides people. So the sane thing to do would be to say, "right, as a society, because we value our social cohesion, and because it's not simply about getting the numbers of this infection down, we have to consider wider things like the long term impacts of whether we can work as a culture, we're not going to do coercive measures that divide people". Again, some countries have done that. And the other obvious thing to do would be for both sides to leave their extremists to the extremes and actually try to talk to each other. You don't have to believe that this is a conspiracy to kill everybody. Neither do you have to believe that everybody who doesn't like vaccines is a neo-fascist. You can just leave those people to scream on Twitter, and try to have a conversation. And at a personal level, that's something everybody can do.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
Tolerance seems to be arriving soon at the point where the clever / intelligent ones will be forbidden to think, as it will offend the feelings of the ignorant / stupid ones.
-- unattributed
The vaccine scientists and researchers and leading immunologists forecasted over-vaccinating the healthy with leaky "emergency use approved (EUA) only and still under investigation" injectables produces the expected viral offshoot cases as they have seen in animal studies (Marek's disease etc.) going back two decades of research of mRNA vaccine experimentation in animals. And, they also stated the fact injecting spike proteins does not prevent future transmission of a coronavirus and yet it took almost a year before that was announced officially a couple of months ago. I'm just a former university research cellular biochemist and molecular biologist with pharmaceutical and immunology working background
-- Rich Knowles
If you're not controversial in a world that's utterly insane, then it's time to find a mirror and ask why. If a world that's insane doesn't see you as insane, you should find a mirror and ask why? The idea is to show people that they don't need to follow anyone.
A renegade mind. What is that? Well you can have a critically thinking mind and you can put dots together and you can see something and you can see what's happening, but a critically thinking mind that can see it or at least some of it won't necessarily do anything about it. It might still conform in fear of not conforming. A renegade mind will never do that. A renegade mind is a critically thinking mind, a constantly questioning, a not taking anything on face value mind without checking it out, especially if it comes from authority.
It won't be intimidated into cooperating with tyranny because the renegade mind has
self-respect. Self-respect is the state of being that has ended every single tyranny in human history, because it's self-respect that says, no I'm not cooperating, my self-respect won't allow it. It’s all a psychological operation and they want your self-respect. A renegade mind wouldn't give it to them, but they want your self-respect because
they know that once your self-respect has been handed over there's nothing left. But what's left with you then is submission. That's all that's left, and this is why in the psychological game they put monumental morons [in charge].
They want you to see it and they want you to think all the contradictions in what these morons are telling you to do. They want you to see them because if you can see that a moron is telling you to do something, and you can see that what they're telling you to do has no basis in common sense or science, but you still do it, they've got your self-respect, and all that's left is submission. And a renegade mind will never hand over itself.
…Not frightened to death – that's the renegade mind. If you don't see what's going on and refuse to cooperate with it, by very little time from now, you, your kids, and grandkids are going to be living in a global fascist dictatorship …. If you don't want that to happen, get off your frikkin ass.
-- David Icke
It's crowd psychosis; that's what we're really talking about. [A] mass psychosis has developed. And they say you will be vaccinated now! That flies in the face of the data which shows the vaccination won't stop the spread of the virus; it doesn't matter.
We have to continue to try to provide information, accurate information. We can substitute the fear of the virus, which is irrational, for a greater threat. Totalitarianism is a bigger bogeyman than the virus by far.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Once they have made up their mind, most people would rather commit to being wrong than admit they were wrong. It doesn’t have to be like this though. Don’t run off a cliff simply because you’ve already started running towards it.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Publicly shaming a minority of people who have chosen not to undergo a medical procedure despite being relentlessly coerced by the threat of violent government persecution social ostracization and the abolition of their basic freedoms.
Woke comedians always bang on about not punching down unless you're punching down on a group of people who have been suitably demonized and monstered by leftists and the mainstream media, then I guess it's fine.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
The last time numbers were this high we were in the middle of the third wave in total lockdown and almost no one was fully vaccinated. So what doesn’t work, the lockdowns, the vaccines, or both?
-- Tom Nacu
Health officials: cases are spiking as more people stay indoors.
Also health officials: only lockdowns that keep people indoors will slow the spread.
-- Chris Hoey
The vaxxinated hate us because they’re under the impression that us injecting a vaxxine will miraculously save them, yet they’re willing to watch us lose our jobs, our homes, the ability to purchase groceries for our families......they’ll watch us suffer and face unjust punishment yet they want us to save them. They’re too dumbed down to comprehend someone else other than themselves getting a vaxxine doesn’t save them so they’re cheering on the mandates, the discrimination and segregation for nothing.
-- Allie Lynn Baker
Grocery Stores .... that can refuse entry to the "unvaccinated"? There is an entire province (state) in Canada, (New Brunswick) where the government is allowing many places including GROCERY STORES to do just that. Just another example of why I will not comply; not until it is back to being a choice. Just as all the other essential vaccines that were never forced (that, because I was free to choose), I took.
First we'll fire you, then we won't let you get groceries with what little money you may still have left. This, is supposed, to be, freedom?
All this for a vaccine that is proven to not stop a person from getting, or giving covid to others.
-- Ric Boyer
We are now engaged in a nightmare feedback loop where the vaccine is making things worse, the unvaccinated are blamed, measures are taken to increase vaccination and punish the unvaccinated, but cases continue to rise, and the cycle repeats.
-- somebody on the internet
Lowering the bar of vaccine efficacy down to protection against SEVERE disease is a vicious trick to leave the public with the false impression that C-19 vaccines are a blessing whereas exactly the opposite is true.
— Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
This is Twilight Zone-level madness. [In England], they're about to impose vaccine passports which haven't worked anywhere in the world, which their own study said don't work, to fight a variant which has killed precisely nobody in the entire frigging world. The government's own investigation found vaccine passports not only don't work, they could make the spread of the virus worse. They're just going to impose them on us anyway. Studies in Northern Ireland, Wales, Spain all found vaccine passports don't work, yet they impose them anyway. France, which has had strict mask mandates and vaccine passports in place for months, just hit its highest covid case level since April.
It's a joke. At what point do you stop listening to people who brazenly lie about everything, do the opposite of what they order you to do, and then laugh in your face about it? At what point do you say enough is enough?
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
-- somebody on the internet
An expert panel of scientists has told a cross-party group of MPs that the implementation of vaccine passports in England would be completely futile, because again the vaccinated can still spread the disease. The false notion that covid is a pandemic of the unvaccinated is being pushed for a specific reason - to dehumanize and scapegoat the unvaccinated so they can be further persecuted for not complying, and then made an example of as a warning to
others. Dehumanized by the media, violently persecuted by the state - whether you agree with their stance or not, that's clearly what's happening. The unvaccinated now represent a tyrannized minority that face institutionalized oppression, and it's all founded on claims that are simply not true, having been disproved by the official data.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
ADE – “the vaccine in the waning phase is causing the virus to replicate more efficiently than it would otherwise”
“I’m the opposite of an anti-vaxxer; I’m a true believer. But I’m also committed to safety and good science”
"[O]ne of my concerns are that the government is not being transparent with us about what those risks are. And so, I'm of the opinion that people have the right to decide whether to accept a vaccine or not, especially since these are experimental vaccines"
"This is a fundamental right having to do with clinical research ethics. And so, my concern is that I know that there are risks. But we don't have access to the data, and the data haven't been captured rigorously enough so that we can accurately assess those risks — and therefore … we don't really have the information that we need to make a reasonable decision."
"That's one of my other objections, is that we toss about these words, risk-benefit analysis, casually as if it's a very deep science. It's not. Normally, at this stage, the CDC [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] would have performed those risk-benefit analyses. They would be data-based and science-based. They're not right now,"
“The escape mutants that are escaping vaccine selected pressure are most likely developing in the people that have been vaccinated, not the unvaccinated.”
-- Dr. Robert Malone – co-inventor of mrna vac. technology
[Seeing as injection advocates] love to compare vaccines to seatbelts. If seatbelts were malfunctioning, there would be recalls. If seatbelts were injuring people, there would be investigations. And if seatbelts didn't prevent the injuries they are intended to, it would mean they aren't working!
If seatbelts were knowingly being sold that were causing death, you could sue the seatbelt manufacturer.
And seatbelts don't cause heart issues, paralysis, and death just by wearing it.
And seatbelt manufacturers wouldn't want to bury the results of their initial tests / studies / findings for 75 years.
And at the end of the day you can take your seatbelt off with no ill effects.
And if you don't wear a seatbelt, you still get to make a living.
-- some people on the internet
When a package of lettuce makes three people sick, there’s a nationwide recall. When so-called vaccines maim and murder tens of thousands, they just mandate you take even more.
-- paraphrased from somebody on the internet
Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment.
-- Carl Jung
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
-- William Golding
Insane regulations are keeping husbands from wives, and children from their parents, on their deathbeds. The real reason for fury is that these regulations exist at all. Even if you believe that measures of this kind are much help (I don’t), anyone with any sense can see that cruel separation of close relatives at the end of life is not a proportionate response to Covid. It is a fanatical, inhuman Communist measure that should never have been allowed, like the fearful, heartbreaking limits placed on funerals and the police raids on churches.
I keep hearing the word ‘proportionate’ being used about Covid measures. We went mad, like a man who burns down his own house to get rid of a wasps’ nest.
As Sweden proved, trusting free people to behave sensibly produced results that were certainly no worse than ours.
-- Peter Hitchens
I am quite literally terrified about the future. And this has nothing to do with a glorified flu virus that offers almost no threat of serious illness nor death to the vast majority of people. What is going on with the political classes and their favoured "scientists" is at best very sinister and at worst something far more horrific. And yet millions of brainwashed people are simply lapping it all up under a dreadfully mistaken comprehension that their health and safety is being looked after above all else.
-- Nigel Smith
It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
-- Diane Grant
This corona narrative allows them to deal in a less painful way with their anxieties. If it doesn't work, it's because some people aren't trying hard enough, so double down.
Indeed, as the pandemic has worn on and major elements of the narrative crumbled, COVID adherents have only become more zealous and have learned to personalize the enemy, shifting their sights onto those who don't comply with draconian rules that have failed to suppress the virus, and blaming them for the restrictions and mandates they themselves have voluntarily adopted.
-- Dr. Mattias Desmet
Dissidents of the global lockstep wisdom of mandates, economic shutdowns, and government control began even in the early days of the so-called "public health crisis" to describe the ritualistic hand washing, "social-distancing", and mask-wearing behaviors as highly symbolic cult-like practices, suggesting that "The Science" had, in the era of COVID-19, become the new worldwide theology, with vaccination the final ritual of initiation: a kind of baptism into the public health religion.
Meanwhile, independent-thinking professors, researchers, and other academics worldwide have pointed out that COVID-19 is not nearly as lethal as initially modeled, while lockdowns, masks, and vaccines have failed to stop transmission of the virus and caused serious harm in themselves.
Now, nearly two years after "two weeks to slow the spread", those whose intuition told them something was seriously amiss with the mainstream perspective have received the cold comfort of vindication.
-- Ashley Sadler
I just thought: doing the same things over and over again, and expecting a different result, would create a different result. That always made sense to me, as long as I didn't think about it. I used to wake up and think: how can I be more obedient today. And then I'd turn on the news to find out what I think for the day.
-- JP Sears, in jest
You don't need the government to protect you from what they tell you to be afraid of, and you don't need to keep living like a scared little obedient bitch.
-- JP Sears
Unfortunately, the health officials and politicians targeted control of using fear rather than data and facts to control the population were successful, resulting in a large number of the population with Covid PTSD whom I fear will never recover.
-- Debby Crane
Stockholm Syndrome victims. Society has embraced it.
-- Haley Geddes
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
-- Assata Shakur
That's the problem with the "experts" we've been calling upon to guide us. They don't know squat. This is a virus. It spreads readily. It's been here for a while just as the first virus was here months before we got excited about it. Quarantines, border restrictions, vaccine passports are useless. The stupidity of our leadership is making history.
-- Victor Kutcher
Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.
Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent.
Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.
-- Japanese Ministry of Health
Weird that I actually have to explain this, but taking things away from people until they agree to do what you say isn’t a ‘choice’. It’s punishing them until they concede to your demands. Normally we would refer to this type of behaviour as manipulation and abuse.
-- somebody on the internet
If you've ever wondered what you'd do during slavery, the holocaust or civil rights movement, you're doing it right now.
-- somebody on the internet
There is value in breaking from the crowd's morally questionable ways, despite it making you an outcast. "Going along to get along" may indeed have social utility in the present, but it does very little to advance a moral vision. Humanity is flawed.
Don't measure yourself against the norms of humanity, hopelessly declaring yourself as righteous simply because you're living in line with the shortcomings of those around you.
-- Jay Hubbard
We appreciate those concerns. But the days of telling regular Canadians that it is somehow their responsibility to put their lives on pause — and suffer the very real harms that come with it — to protect the hospitals are over.
A sizeable percentage of our tax dollars go to the Canadian health-care system. There are people paid big money to manage the system. It's their job to protect the hospitals, not everyone else's.
-- Toronto Sun editorial
One track mind, just sounds stupid and ignorant. Some [Ontario] science table, more like the children's table.
-- Eyal Kenigsvain
"We are really taking that leap – us as a company, Bayer – in cell and gene therapies. Ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy. I always like to say: if we had surveyed two years ago in the public – 'would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?' – we probably would have had a 95% refusal rate".
-- Stefan Oelrich [while Bayer claims he misspoke, the statement was made and within context of the pandemic]
Canadian society, as far as I'm concerned, is burning down all around us.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter, criminal law attorney
Prior to covid, most people would just take it for granted that the government has no right to restrict your freedom of movement, deny you access to your family, prevent you from going to work, shut down your business, force you to wear something on your person, coerce you into taking medication, and demonize a minority group in society.
Those things were done by tyrants and despots throughout history. And that level of evil could never happen again … right?
Well it has happened. Suddenly all of these tyrannical measures and infringements upon our rights and freedoms become acceptable in the minds of the public.
-- Dave Cullen
The new normal is whatever the media and government tells them it is. Failure to accept it results in demonization and condemnation, and ultimately ostracization from society.
-- Dave Cullen
They told us we had to learn to live with the virus. Unless it’s a new variant of the virus in which case we can’t live with it. They told us we’d vaccinate our way to freedom. Then they told us the vaccinations would never end. So we only get our freedom back when the vaccination program ends … and the vaccination program never ends.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
And what of the rules? Well once again they’re a shameful farce. Their [United Kingdom] own internal study said covid passports would achieve nothing and could even worsen the spread. They achieved nothing in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and every other European country that introduced them. Guess it’s time to introduce covid passports then. Makes perfect sense.
They’re not even bothering to cite data that supports their cause anymore, because such data doesn’t exist!
Why are we still listening to these people? They have no credibility; they’ve been wrong every time!
It’s time to say enough is enough.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Please master tell me what else I can do. When I was in school the science teacher never had to say "believe the science". The lesson was self evident. But not in this current day ... odd.
-- Rob Wilkie
The truth is you shouldn’t even need to research at this point. Common sense should reveal the absolute absurdity of what is happening in the world right now.
-- somebody on the internet
Thank you for clapping for me all those months ago. Will you clap for me and all the hard work I’ve done as I walk out of work for the last time? I’m the same person as I was back then. I didn’t change, everybody else did.
-- Jem Nicole, registered nurse, fired due to injection mandate
Tyrannical bureaucrats backed by their Big Tech enforcers suppress spontaneous forces generating effective treatments in favor of the blunt instrument of one-size-fits-all policies.
The delusion of collectivists is that their coercive plans will benefit all.
Politicians invoke the common good to hide that they have no justification for imposing their values on others; their deception is effective. Well-meaning people adopt the belief that only an evil person would oppose the common good.
Weighing the subjective costs and benefits from vaccines does not mean you deny the menace of Covid. You may well benefit from your personal decision to receive the vaccine, but the data is clear: Since you can still transmit Covid your decision provides no benefits to others. The bottom line is that there is no such thing as a common good that is achieved by lockdowns and mandates. Lost jobs, lost lives via suicide, lost livelihoods due to vaccine injuries, growing mental health issues, and lives saved cannot be weighed on “a single scale of less and more.”
-- Barry Brownstein
The “social goal,” or “common purpose,” for which society is to be organized is usually vaguely described as the “common good,” the “general welfare,” or the “general interest.” It does not need much reflection to see that these terms have no sufficiently definite meaning to determine a particular course of action. The welfare and the happiness of millions cannot be measured on a single scale of less and more. The welfare of a people, like the happiness of a man, depends on a great many things that can be provided in an infinite variety of combinations. It cannot be adequately expressed as a single end, but only as a hierarchy of ends, a comprehensive scale of values in which every need of every person is given its place. To direct all our activities according to a single plan presupposes that every one of our needs is given its rank in an order of values which must be complete enough to make it possible to decide among all the different courses which the planner has to choose. It presupposes, in short, the existence of a complete ethical code in which all the different human values are allotted their due place.
-- Friedrich Hayek
Politicians invoke the common good to hide that they have no justification for imposing their values on others; their deception is effective. Well-meaning people adopt the belief that only an evil person would oppose the common good.
-- Barry Brownstein
"We're all in this together". This is a term that's been spouted. We've been watching this growing collectivism evolve, as well as what seems to be an ideological divide between individual rights - classical liberal values - and a collective ideology that subjugates the individual for the needs of the collective.
"We're all in this together". This sounds like a good thing. The flowery language causes us to think that this is a wonderful thing and if we're not part of it, there might be something wrong with us. This is a kind of verbal trickery that's employed in order to subjugate the individual to the goals of a central planning authority.
-- Kate Wand
Citizens are no longer viewed as persons with inherent dignity, but as fungible elements of an undifferentiated 'mass' to be shaped by supposedly benevolent health and safety experts.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Professor of Psychiatry
In an honest society, all of this would have been subject to robust public debate. We would have seen scientists of all opinions openly debating on TV and radio and in the press; views of all kinds aired on social media without fear of censorship; journalists properly investigating reports of both vaccine successes and vaccine dangers; serious explorations of alternative treatments; public debates about the balance between civil liberties and public health, and what “public health” even means.
But we have not seen this and we will not see it, for debate, like dissent, is out of fashion. The media here has not asked a critical question of anyone in authority for at least 18 months. Google’s algorithms are busy burying inconvenient data, while the social media channels from which most people receive their worldview are removing or suppressing critical opinions, even if they come from virologists or editors of the British Medical Journal.
Across Europe and the wider world, the picture is the same. Internment. Mandatory medication. Segregation of whole sections of society. Mass sackings. A drumbeat media consensus. The systematic censoring of dissent. The deliberate creation of a climate of fear and suspicion. The deepening demonisation of the “unvaxxed”. Something terrible is rising around us.
Covid is a revelation. It has lain bare splits in the social fabric that were always there but could be ignored in better times. It has revealed the compliance of the mainstream media, and the power of Silicon Valley to curate and control the public conversation. It has confirmed the sly dishonesty of political leaders, and their ultimate obeisance to corporate power. It has shown how ideology, on all sides, can mask itself with the pretend neutrality of “science”.
Most of all, it has revealed the authoritarian streak that lies beneath so many people, and which always emerges in fearful times. In the last month alone, I have watched media commentators calling for censorship of their political opponents, philosophy professors justifying mass internment, and human rights lobby groups remaining silent about “vaccine passports”. I have watched much of the political Left transition openly into the authoritarian movement it probably always was, and countless “liberals” campaigning against liberty. As freedom after freedom has been taken away, I have watched intellectual after intellectual justify it all.
Most of all, though, what the Covid apocalypse has revealed to me is that when people are frightened, they can be very easily controlled.
Of all the stories we are watching play out right now, this is the biggest one: the manipulation of public fear to impose unprecedented levels of control on populations.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
What is the end result of the COVID pandemic? What are the specific metrics that would allow us to resume our lives with full personal agency? What is the civilizational trajectory that we are on? Please don't infer that I don't appreciate the threat. I do. But future scholars will marvel at the global-wide rejection of evidence-based thinking in pressing the pause button on civilization. As someone who specializes in the psychology of decision making (my doctoral dissertation and subsequent work), I'm truly astonished.
-- Gad Saad
I'm double-vaxxed. So is my wife. So is my young daughter. My younger son has received one dose of the milder vaccination (for young children). We are careful in our behaviours and recognize the threats. BUT as an adult with a functioning brain and (I think) personal agency, it is perfectly rational to question the trajectory of the COVID mandates. What is the end point? How much longer can this go on? What are the metrics that we should be aspiring to reach in order to live as free individuals again? No RATIONAL, MATURE, HONEST interlocutor would question our right to hold such conversations of civilizational importance. And yet, I repeatedly see academics who are bewildering in their ideological fervour; their cognitive miserliness; their intellectual dishonesty; their herd mentality. It is shocking. Free individuals debate; they question; they evaluate; they fight. Sheep are corralled by sheepdogs. I'm not a sheep. I'm a human being who wishes to live as a free and autonomous agent. I have a right to question ANYTHING. The scientific method grants us that epistemological power.
-- Gad Saad
Apparently we are expected to remain dumb enough not to distinguish between 'with' and 'from' [the virus], and sadly a lot of people here have bought into the manufactured fear and mandates. Safety first, freedom second - if you're lucky.
-- Ryan Rodgers
[COVID-19 lockdowns are the] biggest public health mistake we've ever made. The harm to people is catastrophic.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
I am watching all this from Ireland, the country which has the highest adult vaccination rate in Western Europe, at over 94% of the population. Here, cases are accelerating so fast that we were all told recently to work from home, and another lockdown is widely feared. New restrictions for children, who are least at risk from Covid, are being proposed, and a midnight curfew has recently been imposed on pubs and nightclubs. This is odd, as only vaccinated people have been allowed into them since the summer, with the scan of a smartphone-enabled QR code being the only way to access much of society.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
It has revealed the authoritarian streak that lies beneath so many people, and which always emerges in fearful times. In the last month alone, I have watched media commentators calling for censorship of their political opponents, philosophy professors justifying mass internment, and human rights lobby groups remaining silent about “vaccine passports”. I have watched much of the political Left transition openly into the authoritarian movement it probably always was, and countless “liberals” campaigning against liberty. As freedom after freedom has been taken away, I have watched intellectual after intellectual justify it all. When people are frightened, they can be very easily controlled.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
Actual data comes out disproving their dire doomsday predictions as it has every time, and then everyone just moves on. They were spectacularly wrong ... spectacularly wrong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, And it's all the same people who were wrong every time, telling us to lock down again. We teach our kids about not trusting people who repeatedly make false claims via a fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", yet the boys who cried wolf over and over again have seized control of our government.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
I think we're living through a period of moral panic, mass psychosis, mass formation, and overall confusion, and I think what's particularly strange is that this is happening pretty much on a global scale.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
We must protect the NHS. You saw [bureaucrat] saying "protect the NHS". Folks it's time for a rethink. When the NHS was set up in the late 1940s, it wasn't set up that we should protect it - it was set up so that it could protect us. And we do so every day through our taxes - massive taxes.
Remember the "Nightingale hospitals" that were built at rapid speed - great job done for the army and some entrepreneurs. Where are they? They've all gone. How much more NHS capacity do we have now than we had two years ago? Do you know what the answer is? None. We haven't increased hospital capacity.
Even before coronavirus came along, we had a winter crisis every year with flu, and everything else, and a shortage of hospital beds. We've spent 40 billion on "test and trace". Surely better to employ fewer people making phone calls and threatening people, and to spend a fraction of that money making sure we have more NHS capacity. This is a mess.
The reason we're now living like this is because they have not had the foresight to keep the Nightingale hospitals open, to increase hospital capacity. We are all paying the price, being forced into fear, because the government haven't prepared in any way at all.
I was ahead of the game on this. Many said I was being too critical, but it's pretty clear through a lack of planning, through living on day-to-day what the opinion polls say, we have not increased NHS capacity in two years. That is a disgrace.
-- Nigel Farage
Imposing treatments on people without their informed and fully voluntary consent cannot be justified in the name of "the public good," especially when the vaccine manufacturers and government officials have stated publicly that the COVID vaccine does not stop the spread of COVID.
-- John Carpay
Threatening doctors with the loss of their licence to practice medicine is no different from the persecution of Galileo over his minority opinion that the earth revolves around the sun. It is only because science was able to continue its path forward that people eventually accepted Galileo's heliocentric thesis as the correct one, in spite of authoritarian efforts to impose "scientific truth."
As long as [medical] Colleges persist without competence or legal legitimacy in interfering with the doctor-patient relationship, and as long as Colleges persist in their hostility to scientific inquiry and debate by imposing their view of "truth," they will continue to erode the trust that Canadians are able to place in the medical profession.
-- John Carpay
This virus is not the black death. There is no justification for such an extreme response. It should be obvious now even to the dimmest and most timid among us that this is not about health and it never was.
-- Pat Condell
Actually, what we have is a freedom emergency.
-- Pat Condell
When you see it infect the whole society. These people are stoking the fire, but the fire is kind of raging anyway. It's more the mind virus of totalitarianism, like this 'mass formation' where the whole society has bought into this. And in that mindset, totalitarianism is not just one dictator at the top telling everybody what to do. It's actually a virus of the whole society. You can get rid of that top dictator and they'll replace him with somebody else because everybody wants somebody to take power and blast and get rid of their enemies. In that kind of a mindset that infects society that I believe has happened now, you're seeing overreach across our whole society.
It's this mind virus of totalitarianism, of believing you're part of the cause, that we are going to fight and destroy covid at any cost. And people have that solidarity, and that feeling of belonging, and a mission - that they believe is all for the greater good. But that's that same mentality of believing you're doing what's best for the Communist revolution or to maintain the French revolution, or to promote the health of the Aryan race. It's that same belief and when you believe you're doing something for the greater good, while ignoring the rights of the individual in front of you, that's where the greatest atrocities in societies have been committed. I think that's what we're in right now.
-- Dr. Patrick Phillips
Doctors and people seem to have lost the ability to think critically. I’m really hoping that the lesson that we’ll all come out of this fiasco with is to question everything. To not just believe everything you’re told, but to question it. That’s what we as doctors were supposed to have been trained to do in evidence-based medicine – that the facts of science were never settled, because we never have all the facts. Sometimes our presuppositions turn out to be wrong. We have to be constantly questioning things.
-- Dr. Charles Hoffe
The piss-poor reaction to COVID by our so-called leaders has been an unmitigated failure on every level- COVID has already eclipsed the Spanish Flu in the sense of disrupting life, mainly because of the knee-jerk hyperbolic demands of a feckless and paranoid public and feedback from thence through and from the hypocritical ruling class.
Mask mandates, vaccine mandates, travel restrictions, social distancing, gathering restrictions, and every other measure thrown at this … virus have failed.
-- Tarl Warwick
Can you imagine how it feels to fear death and disease so much – despite all evidence that perhaps for you, the grim reaper’s passage through covid is statistically zero – that your world becomes wholly agoraphobic, and your fear of death becomes a fear of life?
-- Kate Wand
Years of ingesting media spoon-fed pablum every night without critical thought has been a contributing factor to our current mass hypochondria.
-- G. Johnson
This 'othering' that we're seeing. All of this language of 'anti-vaxxer', 'vaccine-hesitant' - it's all 'othering' language. It's an attempt to distance oneself from people. The ones who try to stigmatize in this way I think are trying to dehumanize the holders of those positions.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
I think our fundamental ideological divide is a collectivist versus an individualist approach. We have this tendency to think that individualism is a synonym for selfishness or something like that. I think it's really important to talk about that now because I think it's important to address.
To be an individual, is that to be selfish? Does that mean you're focused on the self? Not necessarily. It might just mean that you think that your sole responsibility as a moral agent is not to sacrifice yourself for the group.
You might think you might still be a martyr in some respect because you might think that it's your obligation to sacrifice yourself for some other person, or you might think that it's not your obligation to sacrifice at all, but to try to do good things in the world, or do good things for other people
But I do wonder if the reason why we're seeing an almost intractable debate between pro- and anti-narrative defenders is that we're speaking a different moral language.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
This is why many people subscribe to that collectivist ideology. Because the language sounds very good. So if you have this kind of collectivist language that says you are doing things for the greater good, you are sacrificing yourself for others, you care about others; these individualists don't, they're individualists, so they're selfish, and they are self-interested.
-- Kate Wand
In the in the popular discourse and in social media there's a great willingness to sacrifice the outliers for the sake of what people are calling a public good. One of the problems here though is that this utilitarian notion is piggybacking on some pretty poor interpretation of science. Our fear is running rampant over this omicron variant and when you look at the numbers and the millions of people in Ontario and we've had two hospitalizations, so it's not even clear that those defending this collective good ... we must restrict, we must limit, we must excise for the sake of promoting the health of the group. It's not clear that what we're doing is even achieving that, because it's based on some misguided interpretation of the science.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
It's very odd to me that even for people who know nothing about immunology, nothing about what a respiratory virus is, nothing about what a sterilizing versus non-sterilizing vaccine are ... even if we know nothing about that, you would think it would be odd for most people to hear that 10 or 15 percent of the population could be a threat to ... I won't even say 'fully vaccinated', but doubly vaccinated 85 percent of the population, and that our case numbers are no better than they were before we started all of this vaccinating.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
A vaccine provides immunity against a disease. Obviously, none of these drugs labeled as covid vaccines do that. Leaving aside for the moment the very real concerns about possible negative health impacts, these medications are at best useless. They do nothing. Everywhere you look people who have done as they were told, drunk the Kool-Aid, and taken the jab are falling ill and being diagnosed with COVID-19.
[Nothing] changes the obvious fact that there are no "vaccines" against COVID-19.
-- Charles Faddis
The [media source] captioned this photo “an anti-vax march in London” even though the photo is centered on a man holding up a “no vaccine passports” banner.
The [media] want their readers to think these people are just kooks who hate medicine, even when they’re saying explicitly they oppose the digital surveillance state the vaccines usher in.
-- Morgoth’s Review
Thomas Hobbs and John Locke wrote in their political philosophies about what it is that motivated us as humans to get out of the state of nature and it was not to form grand, elaborate governmental structures where every aspect of our lives is mediated by our public officers. It was not to do that. It was very minimal. It was not let's get out of the state of nature so that we can have perfectly structured and better lives. It was just I would like to submit to the sovereign so that I can have some minimal protections. In the state of nature, people can come along and steal my cow or take my wife or kill me or something, and that's nasty, brutish and short, as Hobbes described. We don't really want to live like that, so we'll agree to trade off our absolute freedom in order to get ... we'll give up a little bit in order, in exchange, to get some protection. But that's a very far cry from thinking that the government should have complete micromanaging control over every aspect of your life.
And my view now is that what we're seeing is a complete failure of our governmental system because it has overstepped the initial implicit contract that we as humans made to form government in the first place, and it's no longer serving us. I do think we need to realize that its value is not pure and perfect and inevitable.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
The CDC withdrawal of its Emergency Use Authorization for PCR testing as of Jan 1 is curious indeed. A functional media would be asking WTF? If PCR had been accurate, then why not continue using it? If PCR has not been accurate, then what does that inaccuracy mean for cases diagnosed?
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
People are indeed capable of making decisions for themselves and their families. If there are new risks, tell us about actions we might take to keep ourselves safe, and allow us to take actions appropriate for ourselves. Not sure what’s so wrong with that approach of treating people like adults.
-- Jeremy Pillon
Our health care system teeters in verge of collapse almost constantly and always has. There is very little buffer room or excess capacity to handle any health crises, including a mass earthquake or massive storm. Shutting down entire segments of society and the economy just "as a precaution" cannot be a viable government option anymore. That has to end.
-- Rod Pithy
The largely unremarked-on ironies in all this mess have attracted my attention. We in Ottawa will spend almost two years protecting your health but will not increase health care funding for the provinces or consider necessary changes to the system. We will never tolerate the divided society that vaccine passports would create, until we embrace them. Having squandered our trust, governments turned to coercion. Fear, little of it based in reason or science, has been the motivation for so much in 2021.
-- Andrea Mrozek
Your position is an ideological opinion and not a medical position backed by any proven science.
Your ideology should not become my personal health obligation.
-- Colin Wright
I'm sure you know coercion and force (in legal and non-legal terms) when you see them. In the end, it's absolutely inappropriate and unethical, by any measure, to pressure and bully employees into personal health decisions in order to retain their employment. Period.
-- Colin Wright
Canada's public officials and political class are devoid of credibility. The system is broken, and those at the top have absolutely no idea what they are doing with all their unearned and undeserved power. What does abject failure look like? It looks like what we see around us today in our healthcare system and among our political class.
-- Spencer Fernando
The fact that we are at the point where many wait and see what a government official tells them about what kind of Christmas they can have is a huge problem.
-- Spencer Fernando
It's amazing how lockdowns, which go directly against the fundamental values of our culture, have become normalized as standard policy when the going gets tough. Lockdowns are a totalitarian policy we imported from the CCP. How people support them is absolutely mind blowing."
-- Mike Ryan
At this point, it is important to stop mincing words. People need to grow up. At this moment, there are millions of adults in this country, and around the world, who are willing to give up most of their rights and freedoms in order to feel 'safe'. In doing so, they are accepting a role in which the government is their parent, and they are like a child, waiting for guidance and direction.
-- Spencer Fernando
For [politicians], and for a media establishment that thrives on division and demonization, it’s far easier to direct anger and outrage towards unvaccinated Canadians than it is acknowledge the failure of our institutions and their disturbing embrace of authoritarian power.
-- Spencer Fernando
Given that there are more cases of the virus even among those who are vaccinated, and given that vaccinated individuals can still spread covid, the idea of restricting access to unvaccinated individuals is more about coercion and demonization than it is about public health.
Additionally, we are already seeing that in much of the country there are new restrictions and lockdowns being imposed upon people who are vaccinated, and upon businesses that were only open to vaccinated individuals. That is a tacit admission by governments that the policy of imposing vaccine mandates and restrictions on unvaccinated people is a failed policy.
-- Spencer Fernando
Let us suppose that we were to be in the current steady state (whatever that means) for the foreseeable future. How much longer would people be willing to have these governmental COVID mandates imposed upon them? It has now been two years. Another two years? Another 20 years? Another 200 years? Asking people about the boundary conditions that might activate them away from their passive compliance is a valuable exercise to undertake. Again, no one is contesting the importance of being a responsible individual when it comes to personal behavior. My genuine concern is that for a great majority of the population, no amount of governmental intrusion will ever cause them to pause and question these realities. Therein lies the tragedy. Humans are largely quiet sheep, with a few irreverent and bold non-followers.
-- Gad Saad
Late-night talk show hosts, pop science communicators, and journalists are interchangeable. They’re all insufferably unfunny hollow vehicles for regime messaging.
With open scientific discussion, without censorship, and without astroturfed self-righteous midwits, we would not be in the situation we are in now.
-- pseudonym Leaky Vax
I have to say, the most unpleasant and downright awful people I’ve interacted with over the past 2 years have been those who claim to care about my “health”.
-- pseudonym The Iconoclast
All this information is in the public domain. Yet due to doublethink, idiocy, mulishness, duplicity, derangement or all of the above, policy-makers are refusing to act on its implications. The absurd theatre of vaccine passports ... is worse than pointless. Gatekeeping of pleasure palaces promotes the wrong impression - statistically, the lie - that the unvaccinated riff-raff exiled to the pavement pose a far graver threat of communicable disease than the diners in the nearby banquette who, like you, have righteously got the shot. In truth, the double-jabbed airline passenger in 24A can be just as risky a seat-mate as the great unwashed banished from the flight.
-- Lionel Shriver
Just think about the ethical ramifications of prohibiting a therapeutic intervention to a sick patient. This has to come to an end.
-- Dr. Joe Varon
What we're experiencing is co-ordinated media warfare the level of which we have never seen before and I and my peers, who are experienced in multiple outbreaks have never seen this level of co-ordinated propaganda.
--Dr. Robert Malone
It is diabolical. Dreadful. Awful. Kilometers of people queuing for hours in the cold with masks on outdoors. Totally effin surreal. Like the Twilight Zone.
-- Mary Smith
With more unscientific, ineffective and medieval restrictions looming over Ontario, it’s important to remember that humans have no control over constantly mutating seasonal respiratory viruses. We can only adapt – by building hospital capacity and using the best treatments available.
-- somebody on the internet
The government has literally stopped the distribution of medicine. Effective medicine. For a disease that exists currently. When has that ever happened before
-- Joe Rogan
How about that ridiculous press release from the White House, that said the winter of the unvaccinated death. So horrible ... and so inaccurate.
-- Joe Rogan
That's the core thing of this chronic angst. Our government is out of control on this. They are lawless. They completely disregard bioethics. These mandates of an experimental vaccine are explicitly illegal.
When you see this kind of decoupling of public policy from logic, then it causes thinking people like yourself to say what the hell is going on here.
It’s hard for me to reconcile the behavior of the government in its public health decisions with the data. Is it incompetence or is it malfeasance?
-- Dr. Robert Malone
One of the more disturbing things about this pandemic is how people have just decided because they're scared and because they want a solution, that the pharmaceutical companies have their best interest at heart, and that they're not these machines that are designed to make money. And they sell drugs, and the drugs are often beneficial, but their main goal is to make money. And if they can fudge the data, if they can move the numbers around, if they can delete negative consequences ...
-- Joe Rogan
It's a tribal formation. It's people who don't have personal sovereignty and people who aren't confident with standing by their own thoughts and objectively analyzing things outside of an ideology, outside of the tribe. And those are more common than not.
-- Joe Rogan
They're not scared that you're not wearing a mask, or else they'd distance themselves. They're scared that you are being disobedient.
-- Michael Malice
No reasonable person, no sensible person, no honest person, no decent person believes that there is any epidemiological or scientific explanation that can justify why the government - never mind about the curfews and lockdown - why they are weighing in on whether you can walk your dog outside or not.
Fascism and authoritarianism and dictatorial rule doesn't happen by magic. It happens by a concerted orchestrated dance between a bunch of people who are really keen on seizing power and the rest of the people who are more than willing to sit quietly and apathetically.
This will never end until people say it can't go on.
The government is telling you that you can't walk your dog when you have a curfew. I grew up in the Lebanese civil war - you didn't have
dog curfews.
-- Gad Saad
In every country where they've been tried, vaccine passports have completely failed to stop the spread. But this is no longer about stopping the spread of a virus, is it? It's about enforcing unthinking, gelded mass obedience.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Has anyone considered that it took humanity so long to achieve a semblance of freedom largely BECAUSE so many people actually LIKE being under the boot?
I used to believe that virtually all human beings inherently and fundamentally desired to be free and to have liberty and autonomy.
I was wrong.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
You will learn more factual information on COVID in the 3 hour Joe Rogan / Dr. Robert Malone interview vs. the legacy media’s coverage combined over the last 2 years.
-- Pat Condell
What a liar [is Justin Trudeau] - both on misleading the public that the UNVAXD are filling the hospitals as well as the idea that these injections confer an immunity that prevents infection and transmission, neither of which it does. On the issue of hospital beds, only a small % of beds are Covid-related… and the majority are VAXD! He just keeps repeating blatant lies and making indirect threats to those who will not bend the knee to his unconscionably evil mandates because frankly he has nothing else to say because his narrative has been completely and utterly annihilated by the truth. Tough for an arrogant man to swallow.
-- Liberty Coalition Canada
If the experts don’t all agree, then ban, threaten, pay off, or censor them until they do. Works every time.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Two shots plus a booster in less than a year of rolling out the vax. Had a vax failed so miserably in less than a year in clinical trials, it would be ditched as useless. But now, just boost.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
Trust the science.
I do trust in science, but coercion is not science, withholding data is not science, manipulating data is not science, cherry-picking studies is not science, social conditioning is not science, fear-mongering is not science, and censorship is not science.
-- somebody on the internet
What we have collectively accepted under the guise of a public health emergency is a discriminatory, medical apartheid state with devastating and potentially irreversible social and economic consequences. We have allowed principally flawed and ineffective public health policies and statutes to destroy our livelihoods and our lives, fracture our communities and families, and cause far greater harm than good.
At this time, it is abundantly clear from the objective science and public health data that our mass vaccination campaigns, which entail extreme coercive measures in a singular approach to fighting a highly transmissible but predominantly non-fatal and eminently treatable virus, are abysmal failures.
The justification for emergency measures rests upon the legal principles that they must be temporary, minimally damaging, and demonstrably effective in providing more benefit than harm. Instead, we have scapegoated a significant subset of the population, we have dispensed with notions of informed consent, we have granted State power over bodily autonomy, and we have ruptured the social fabric as we vilify conscientious detractors. None of this promotes a healthy and cohesive society founded on the principles of justice, inclusion, and non-discrimination.
-- group Fearless Canada
This is when you know your country is in trouble when your current PM [Prime Minister] says word for word what a former genocidal maniac said.
-- Theoren Fleury
Our belief that these people outside of you and above you know better for you than you do about what’s best for you. That whole idea that a government is going to save us, like daddy-Prime Minister knows what’s best, or even that your doctor knows what’s best for you. I think it was a myth all along. I think it’s very important that we take back our power, that we trust in ourselves, and take back our power over our own lives. The power of the individual over [his/her] own life is essential.
-- Dr. Patrick Phillips
You, sir, are breaking the law. Violating the Charter continually in the absence of a true and crucial emergency.
-- Dr Jordan B Peterson
These days almost all mainstream media should have to state "For Entertainment Purposes Only"
-- Travis Nesimiuk
In light of the fact that Covid vaccines do not stop Covid spread, there is no medical or scientific reason for governments to coerce or pressure anyone to get injected. Declining the Covid vaccine is neither selfish nor anti-social. It is a free and legitimate personal choice that governments should support and uphold.
-- John Carpay
Covid is so much more complicated that just ‘I’m for more safety than you are therefore I’m a better person’.
-- Bill Maher
There is no such thing as an anti vaxxer. We are VACCINE SAFETY ADVOCATES.
-- Steve Williams
In the 1940s, governments authorized the widespread spraying of the "safe" insecticide DDT on people, in a sincere effort to "save lives" from polio, but DDT was banned in the 1970s as dangerous to public health.
-- John Carpay
The government is now officially wandering, lost in the wilderness of their own private mass formation hell. Except it is not only their hell, but also ours. Perhaps a bit less propaganda and censorship, and a bit more listening to other opinions might finally be in order?
-- Dr. Robert Malone
The problem what we're dealing with these news sources, is that the answer is not to silence me, the answer is for you to do better. The answer is for you to have better arguments. If you're in business, and your business is the news, and you want to get more people to pay attention, you should be honest. Have give people that give out objective news, and I'll support you.
-- Joe Rogan
We have got to get past this endless, unforgiving, zero-tolerance mindset bent on punishing and disappearing anyone caught saying the 'wrong' thing. The right response to speech you don't like is more speech, not the lazy, cowardly response of cancelling people. This is a big country with lots of people who don't think like you. We all only need to agree on free speech itself.
-- Bill Maher
It doesn’t make sense to keep boosting against a strain that’s already gone.
-- Ali Ellebedy, immunologist
The fact is that children have been accused of being the principal source of SARS-COV-2 and have been outrageously bullied because of that. It is ironic that those who feel at peace bullying our children are often the same righteous people who were tutoring against bullying practices at school a few years ago.
-- Marc Girardot
Vaccine manufacturers have become wicked magicians: they have managed creating a multi-billion market out of nothing without delivering any clinical value to those in need beyond relieving a fabricated anxiety. Even drug dealers at least deliver on the promise to get you high. If it weren’t so despicable and unethical, you’d have to applaud the marketing feat.
-- Marc Girardot
The strongest lie is the lie that the audience tells itself.
-- Teller
You’ve got your two shots. You’ve got your two boosters. You’re double masked. And yet nothing has changed. How stupid do you feel? You don’t feel stupid at all. Why? Because you’re stupid.
-- somebody on the internet
I think people and government are in a bit of a trance right now, they have tunnel vision on just getting shots in arms constantly, even if the data isn't there to support that strategy.
-- Yelnik
When I want to make sure people are healthy, I usually force them to stay indoors, close all of the gyms, and stop them from working and seeing their friends and family. I also keep them in a continuous state of dread, uncertainty, and anxiety. This is for their health, clearly.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The government does not have the right to make your medical decisions for you.
Workers are stressed over the choice between their freedom and their careers - something no one in this country should ever have to face. Personal medical decisions are between an individual and their doctor.
Vaccines are not infallible. They are not an option for everyone, and they should never be forced on someone who doesn't want them.
The administration's single-track focus on vaccination rather than therapeutics for COVID is telling. We know that none of the COVID vaccines prevent you from contracting the disease, and they don't prevent you from passing it on to someone else. Mandating a vaccine for workers that accomplishes neither of those things is not only unconstitutional, but incomprehensible.
-- Kevin Hern
It is becoming nearly impossible to withstand the slow suffocation of our ability to live our lives as individuals with personal agency and full autonomy. Every moment that is robbed from you is an existential crime against your human dignity. We’ve lost two years of our lives. It is truly bewildering what people are willing to endure as quiet, compliant sheep.
-- Gad Saad
The cure has become worse than the disease.
I have spoken with senior advisors to provincial governments in Canada. There is no end game in sight. The idea that Canadian policy is or should be governed “by the science” is not only not true, it’s also not possible, as there is no simple pathway from the facts of science to the complexities of policy. We are deciding, by opinion poll, to live in fear, and to become increasingly authoritarian in response to that fear.
There are no risk-free paths forward. There is only one risk, or another. Pick your poison: that’s the choice life often offers. I am weary of living under the increasingly authoritarian dictates of a polity hyper-concerned with one risk, and oblivious to all others. And things are shaking around us.
Enough, Canadians. Enough, Canadian politicos. Enough masks. Enough social gathering limitations. Enough restaurant closures. Enough undermining of social trust. Make the bloody vaccines available to those who want them. Quit using force to ensure compliance on the part of those who don’t. Some of the latter might be crazy but, by and large, they are no crazier than the rest of us.
-- Jordan Peterson
Employers that fire fully competent, healthy, and in many cases long term staff, and then force infected staff to work, do not have a staffing shortage problem. They do have problems with intelligence, competence, and compassion.
Not really things a hospital should be lacking. Let the managers that chose to terminate clean the bedpans. It the only thing they are useful for.
-- Wolf Madsen
We have a medical emergency caused by gross incompetence.
-- Dr. Mehmet Oz
I still don't know how I will explain to my future children that billions of people gave up their basic human rights and civil liberties because they were afraid to catch a cold. And they still caught it anyway.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Unbelievable how most people refuse to believe what is really causing people so much hardship in their lives. Not covid but government measures that are harmful to all Canadians. This is cruel to treat people like this.
-- Nathan Bouchard
COVID is almost certainly a short-term problem. Maintaining individual rights in the face of omnipotent government is a long-term one.
If government comes along and tells me that for my own good I should submit to injection with a newly invented genetic concoction Big Pharma has put together for me, I'm naturally going to be suspicious. I should be suspicious. It's good that I'm suspicious. These are the people who run the post office (though "run" is an exaggeration). They're always telling us we should do things, whether for our own good or not. Their bossiness is society's main problem these days.
-- William Watson
The real pandemic is how stupid everyone is.
-- somebody on the internet
Canadians are infantile. The government and their controllers treat us like kids, and people oblige. "Wear your masks or we won't give you any treats" we'll send you to the naughty step and stop your benefits. Now, behave and obey us like good little kids. We are clearly a civilization in sharp decline. Opposite of anything that can objectively be called advancing. Parasites have seized control!!
-- Jeanette Lockhart
Governments spent astronomical sums in the past 2 years, all with the ultimate goal of “flattening the curve.” But none of it went to increasing hospital capacity, and they’re still trying to flatten the curve with destructive and ineffective measures.
-- Maxime Bernier
So now we have an impossible-to-stop virus that looks a lot like the common cold. And we have a heavy-handed global mitigation strategy based on vaccination that does very little to stop it. Surely, I thought, we will now see that these policies, and especially vaccine mandates, do not make any logical sense?
-- Cory Zue
Don’t wear a cloth mask. Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations.
-- Dr. Leana Wen
Recovered COVID patients have strong, long-lasting protection against severe disease if reinfected, and evidence about protective immunity after natural infection is stronger than the evidence from the vaccines. Hence, it makes no sense to require vaccines for recovered COVID patients. For them, it simply adds a risk, however small.
-- Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff
The overwhelmingly likely outcome is that the vaccine would do just what the virus did: maybe inconvenience me for a day or so, and then I’d be on with my life. Rationally, isn’t that worth being able to live “normally” again?
Yes. That would be worth it. But the issue is no longer the vaccine. The problem is the precedent.
I don’t believe it’s ok to live in a world in which medical procedures can be forced onto people without an impenetrable foundation of evidence to support them. And I’m just not seeing that from where I stand.
The world I want to live in is a world where we make and enforce rational, evidence-based policies based on the good of the population. A world in which we defer some autonomy to individuals to make their own decisions regarding their health, and don’t keep them from going out to dinner or getting on an airplane if we disagree with them.
I’d also like to live in a world where we stop shaming “the other”, and I’ve decided that one way I can do that is by declaring myself as part of “the other”.
Earlier I didn’t take the shot because I wasn’t sure it was good for me. But now? Now I’m not taking the shot because I’m taking a stand.
I’m taking a stand because if people like me don’t stand up against what’s going on in the world right now then things will only get harder and weirder and scarier for other people like me. I’m worried that if we don’t get off this path soon, it’s going to get harder and harder to turn back. And I don’t want to see where that ends up.
-- Cory Zue
In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.
-- Professor Udi Qimron
We reject the biomedical security state that curtails liberty, ruins livelihoods, and divides our society. And we will protect the rights of individuals to live their lives free from the yoke of restrictions and mandates.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
We engage in peaceful civil discourse and vote them out and then take all who did wrong to court and examine it fairly with proper legal settings. And if wrong, jail them. Jail all who did wrong if it is shown legally. Use all tools in our good governance societies to find who did wrong knowingly and punish them, no matter how high up. To get justice for this insanity the last 2 years. Too many people died not due to [a] virus but due to the polices of these morons, these irrational nonsensical idiots.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
You watch in the months and years to come, the greatest proponents for all of these ruinous COVID measures that don't appear to have made a discernible difference compared to countries and territories that did so little, will be rewriting their own history. With the societal, economic, health, and human damage from the measures, we've seen a set of unprecedented and experimental measures to control the virus. It won't just be a [single] figure that you can blame ... it will be an entire generation of scientists, medics, politicians, and media outlets who will own this. They and they alone will own the non-COVID death toll which is obviously going to dwarf that of COVID. They will own the national debt, they will own the mental health tsunami, they will own the NHS waiting list upwards of 6 million and beyond, they will own a sadder diminished and angrier society, they will own damaged children. You mark my words - one by one, almost every measure that we've seen will be discredited.
-- Mark Dolan
When it came to the Covid vaccines, the medical authorities have displayed an astonishing level of tolerance for side effects and collateral damage. So much so that they were even willing to let some children die unnecessarily for the sake of their vaccine agenda.
-- Vasko Kohlmayer
Here we are in 2022 and our leaders are scapegoating the non-vaccinated, blaming them for the continuation of the pandemic. Like other evil leaders, they divide rather than unite. They promote fear rather than courage and strength. Pit one group against another.
-- Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
Let me fact check that for you. Behavioral scientists working for the British government admit they used quote
unethical totalitarian methods of quote mind control to mislead or hypnotize the public ... their words, not mine ... in order to drastically increase quote the perceived level of personal threat that the virus poses because quote a substantial number of people
still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened. This was all reported by the London Telegraph.
One scientist with SPI-B - that's the government behavioral unit - admits that quote in March 2020, the government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn't want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear. The scientists further confessed that quote the use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It's been like a weird experiment. Ultimately it backfired because people became too scared.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Even in public health emergencies, certain norms of basic respect for human beings and their right to make free and informed decisions must not be trespassed. Charging mandatory levies against the unvaccinated simply crosses the line of what may be permitted in a free society, and should be condemned outright.
-- Canadian Constitution Foundation
It's all fun and games until you don't want another dose and canno get an exemption. Maybe at that point, you will understand the importance of informed consent and bodily autonomy.
-- Rick Pittman
Then there is Canada, always so scared of everything except what is a real threat: totalitarianism.
-- somebody on the internet
Our provincial and federal governments failed to address healthcare staffing and funding for at least the last 10 years. The pandemic and the unvaccinated became their scapegoats. Something to blame other than them.
-- F. Castle
Can someone tell me the difference between Don Cherry's "You People" and Justin Trudeau's "These People"? One doesn't have a job anymore and the other is a PM.
-- Theoren Fleury
Canadians' personal health decisions have nothing to do with the government's failure to expand our health care system's capacity. They've only had 2 years to do it after all.
-- True North news
Oh, go get the vaccine, go get the vaccine and you can keep your job. No, we live in Canada here people. It's a choice. It's a choice. You have the right to go get it; I have the right not to.
-- Lee, some truck driver losing his job for not getting jabbed
Do you remember the Japanese soldier who refused to surrender until 1974 because he did not believe that WWII had ended? [The Canadian Prime Minister] and other COVID addicts are cut of the same cloth. A refusal to move on. An orgiastic need to maintain the authoritarian status quo.
-- Gad Saad
As time goes on it becomes clear that Trudeau really is the worst leader in the democratic world.
In an effort to persuade the population to get vaccinated, Trudeau did everything he could to defame those who disagreed with him. This extended to him dismissing anyone hesitant about taking the vaccine as being (guess what?) racist, misogynistic and more. Trudeau had no evidence for any of this, but this is the modern way of excommunicating any person or group of people. Say that they are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobes and you have successfully un-personed such people.
It is absolutely scandalous, [the incumbent Prime Minister] should go, his government should fall, there should be fresh elections in Canada, and the Canadian people should
elect somebody else.
This is just unbelievable banana republic behaviour.
-- Douglas Murray
Zealous ideologues have always led the way to humanity's worst atrocities; towing behind them a long train of apathetic and disinterested and/or fearful public. Instead of weighing the situation, and course-correcting as needed, they always double-down on their prescriptions out of ill-informed hubris.
Despite everyone previously cheering for the [The Canadian Prime Minister] Low-T former part-time drama teacher, and colourful socks enthusiast as a relatively harmless numale, he is actually a terrifying and ideologically-possessed authoritarian.
-- John Meadowlark
Workers in Canada are striking against a government mandate that they consume the product of a multinational corporation that is protected by law against liability for any damage that product may cause. Naturally, progressives are broadly against this.
-- Spike Cohen
The politicians who shut down businesses for the last two years are suddenly concerned about local businesses in Ottawa [due to protest truck convoy].
-- Andrew Lawton
100 thousand truck convoy and NOT one building burning and NOT one person hurt.
-- somebody on the internet
Suddenly the Government cares about businesses in Ottawa being closed?! After hijacking my restaurant for 2 years.
-- Chef Michael Hunter
It was naive of me to think that the evidence would cause a sudden realization that this virus was behaving like a normal virus. We were not all going to die. We would use rationality and reopen. I recall writing that with a sense of confidence that the media would report the new study, and the panic would end. I was preposterously wrong. The drug of fear had already invaded the
public mind. Once there it takes a very long time to recover.
This is made far worse by politics which has only fed the beast of fear. This is the most politicized disease in history, and doing so has done nothing to help manage it, and much to make it all vastly worse. We've learned throughout this ordeal that despite our technology, our knowledge, our history of building prosperity and peace, we are no smarter than our ancestors, and by some measures not as smart as our parents and grandparents.
The experience with COVID has caused a mass reversion to the superstitions and panics that sporadically defined the human experience of ages past. Eventually people have and do come to their senses, but it is as [Charles] MacKay said: people go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
-- Kate Wand
It is so sad to see our once wonderful and respected country turn into one of the haves and have-nots where the unvaccinated are treated like trash and mocked, excluded, named and shamed by our politicians, sanctimonious elitists and leftist doctors. (I am fully vaxxed BTW).
-- Sue-Ann Levy
Governments are at fault for destroying our rights and freedoms, galloping inflation, the mental health crisis, the energy crisis, the soaring public debt, the collapse of our healthcare and education systems. Not the vaccinated or unvaccinated. We must unite against the governments who are responsible for this dystopia.
-- Maxime Bernier
[The pandemic narrative is] completely crumbling, [including] false statements regarding asymptomatic spread, reliance on lockdown and masks – which obviously didn't work – the suppression of early treatment, the mass promotion of vaccines that failed. The narrative has crumbled. No one can be forced into it ... and they're not turning out to be safe or effective.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
It is simply unbelievable how one can even think of vaccinating children with genetic vaccines, knowing that even conventional vaccines sometimes take an extra 5 to 10 years before they get licensed for children.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
Why do so many of you always get angry about the wrong thing at the wrong time? How ridiculous it is to watch the nation in a frenzy about an office party, when it sat in dumb stupor through the greatest attack on its freedom in centuries.
Look, it is not the parties that matter. What mattered was that you were unjustly and mistakenly ordered to endure absurd limits on your life, by a government that panicked.
And you did as you were told. I am genuinely unsure what kind of men and women they were who actually denied people contact with their dying relatives. Could you do that?
But such behaviour, like the forcible separation of families at funerals and all the other hysterical rubbish of the Covid crackdown, should have been howled down.
We all, in our lives, know the real and proper limits of power and authority. We know what we can reasonably ask of others – and what we cannot.
But when the Johnson Government came to us in March 2020, ordering us to stay at home and telling us to behave as if the Great Plague was loose in our midst, when it so plainly was not, that was the time to be angry.
But mostly, you were not.
-- Peter Hitchens
Everyone is telling us to “trust the science”.
Science hasn’t concluded their research on any of these vaccines yet. So I can’t trust science that isn’t available yet. On our own government website! People need to be brought back to square one. It’s not unreasonable for people to not want permanent injections that are new. Simple as that. Leave us alone.
-- Benjamin Stiller
Strange how, over the course of the Pandemic, the number of people who believe they are so right and know everything has grown; in my lifetime, society has spent 30+ years trying to address institutional and personal discrimination against others, particularly minorities, and in a matter of months, discrimination has become the new norm, even a sport.
-- somebody on the internet
It's amazing how this virus continues to conveniently have the same side effects as the shot that supposedly prevents it.
-- AdelardRen
It's the only pandemic that we need the government and media to constantly remind us exists.
-- somebody on the internet
You don't threaten my body, my livelihood and my wellbeing, and expect me to show up with a smile and bells on. They did this.
-- anonymous government employee
Alarmist bed-wetters devastated that they can no longer impose their pedantic hypochondria on others, crestfallen that their noble activist crusade of harassing other people at supermarket checkouts is about to become redundant. The "wear a mask" hashtag is like prisoners refusing to leave the camp when the gaurds have quit, left the gate open, and gone home.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
What is right for you may not be right for me. What is right for me may not be right for you. But what is not right for either of us is being stripped of the freedom to choose what is right for ourselves.
-- Anna Gala
Some major international newspapers are apologizing for their hysterical coverage, and their failure to hold authorities to account. The rats are fleeing the sinking ship that is the lockdown narrative. Sky News: "our daily case is now meaningless; why do we live with flu; is media ignoring vaccine side effects"? Oh now you're asking these questions? The only question you asked at government press briefings for the past two years is why aren't we locking down harder. And now only as we near the end, are you asking these questions? Sky News, once more highlighting the important distinction of people who died with and from covid. Again, where were you two f**king years ago? You don't suddenly get to pretend that you're speaking truth to power, when for the past 24 months you've been begging the power to abuse their powers even more.
For the lion's share of the decade so far, you've behaved like dutiful members of the lockdown politbureau, like nazi collaborators in France on VE Day. Me, Vichy, no, informant no, I was always in the French resistance, honest.
The same media class grifting off all the lockdown heartache stories to score cheap points against the [politicans] missed cancer screenings, loved ones dying alone in hospitals, funerals via a live web stream, depression, alcoholism, suicide.
When they all vehemently lobbied for lockdown for harsher lockdown measures than the [politicans] even imposed, you don't have the moral high ground. You never did. Sit the f**k down!
Boy is it a refreshing white pill to see some of these mercenaries scuttle away with their tail between their legs. The pandemic may not be over but the grift appears to be coming to an end, as it increasingly becomes clear we were right and they were on the wrong side of history.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
What else could they have gotten wrong in COVID-19? The sacred union of incompetence and arrogance.
-- Dr. Christian Perrone
Can we do a reverse lockdown where everything is open, no restrictions, no masks, no vaccine passports, and the people afraid of normal life can stay home?
-- Canadian for Freedom
Of course all scientists agree when you censor the ones who don't.
-- somebody on the internet
Don't use the vaccines as a mechanism of social control. Don't use the vaccines with mandates to divide society and get people laid off work. Our political leaders, our epidemiological leaders have labored under this illusion they can stop the virus from spreading. The whole pandemic, they've thought this. And that strategy has obviously and clearly failed. The best we can do is protect the vulnerable. The pandemic ends - it's not actually a biological question - it's a political question. When are we reached a point where we can say enough is enough. We no longer need all these restrictions. They're not accomplishing much, and actually harming many people.
-- Dr. Jay Battachaira
Throughout this pandemic, we've been missing the point. Public Health has been wrong time and time again. And any suggestion that vaccinating the balance of the 10% will get us out of the pandemic is not grounded in any reality. Public Health told us that we're going to exit as soon as we're at 70% ... 80% ... we're now at 90% almost of eligible Ontarians, and here we are back in lockdown. Passports and mandates didn't work ... and that spread was not prevented. My focus has always been on demanding better service from the government. Government has failed to build hospital capacity, and it is artificially choking hospital capacity. That's the reason we're cancelling surgeries.
-- Roman Baber, Member of Provincial Parliament, Ontario
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
-- Simone de Beauvoir
When times turn bad, and there are always bad times, the reckless and bad ideas get woefully exposed. As soon as the virus arrived among us, our democratically elected governments, eagerly abetted by their preferred scientific advisors, threw away all the plans they had had for dealing with a pandemic. Plans laid down after years of preparation and discussion. Plans in line with advice from the world health organization, and replaced them overnight with tactics lifted straight - I can only assume - from the Chinese communist party's big boys book of totalitarian control. All over Europe and the developed West it was the same.
They helped, themselves those elected representatives of the tax paying, law-abiding public, to powers unprecedented in peacetime - the sort of powers indeed that might give dictators and emperors excited dreams. With the craven complicity of the so-called political opposition, they drafted and passed outrageously invasive laws with barely so much as a nod to discussion or debate.
In the past few days here on GB News, we've highlighted the results of a freedom of information request made to the Office of National Statistics. Coverage of the reply has been absent from the mainstream media. The ONS was asked how many otherwise healthy people had died in England and Wales of COVID and nothing else. The answer was 17,371 across the two years. Average age over 82. These figures are comparable to say the least with the death toll that might be expected from a typical flu season. All lives matter including those 17,371, but there are nearly 70 million people in Britain around 700,000 of us die every year of all manner of causes. I look at these facts these figures and I cannot begin to imagine making sense of what has been done apparently in the name of public health.
I have worried for a while that there's a tsunami of another sort coming our way we've all seen the disaster movies when the tide suddenly drops away disappearing over the horizon after some deep impact out at sea before rushing back as a towering devastating wave sweeping all before it. There's still so much we don't know, still so much we're not supposed to talk about, ask questions about. We cannot, and will not have for years yet, long-term data about either the efficacy or safety of the vaccines.
-- Neil Oliver
One thing I know is that 'freedom' and 'mandates' don't co-exist.
-- JP Sears
NEWS FLASH... Masks didn't work, vaccines didn't work , but hey, keep doing the same thing expecting different results. Perfect example of insanity. We are going to die of something ... hope it's not government.
-- Beth Ann Dallara
The thing about smart people is they sound crazy to dumb people.
-- somebody on the internet
People who read and do research will always sound crazy to the people who don't.
-- somebody on the internet
No one is saying that covid isn't real; no one is saying that covid doesn't suck for some people that get it.
With everything in life you have to weigh the risk and rewards, the pros and cons.
-- Steven Crowder
Do not follow the majority, follow the right way.
-- somebody on the internet
It’s amazing how consistently and comprehensively COVID authoritarianism and The Science(tm) fails and how uninterested media outlets are in covering it.
-- Ian Miller
Leftist logic. Unvaccinated nurses with natural immunity were fired just so vaccinated nurses who tested positive for the virus could be allowed to work as long as they're asymptomatic. Is this what 'following the science' looks like?
-- Charlie Kirk
Obviously, masks are not necessary. They are part of the current genre of safety kabuki theatre. Of course, anyone who chooses to wear a mask in a free society should be able to do so if they wish. But mandating masks on children is nothing more than a punitive and sadistic sign of submission to the deep-seated and perhaps irreparable hypochondria of sincerely troubled adults. At this point, it’s pathological.
The government of Ontario remains wedded to policies that have simply inflicted the maximum human carnage imaginable whether by good intent or malice. But as Bari Weiss recently put it, as in blue states in America, we here in Ontario are trapped in a 'pandemic of bureaucracy' to be 'remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime.'
We have lived under the capricious rules of Ontario's biomedical tyranny for almost two years. At this point, the question of malice is legitimate.
-- Laura Rosen Cohen
I vote mandatory working out and healthy diets. Your QR code won’t let you in restaurants or McDonalds if you haven’t done your 4 this week.
-- Benjamin Stiller
Millions of unnecessary deaths worldwide due to blocking of early treatment to justify universal vaccination. Crime against humanity.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Our public health experts and political leaders have lost the plot. Their orders don’t add up, but they don’t seem to care. If Canada was led by decent, honest people, we would end all health restrictions and announce an end to the pandemic.
-- Candice Malcolm
These people clearly aren't well. Large swaths of America are in a Covid cult. Politicians, bureaucrats and the media have been manipulating them for the past two years, spinning them into a frenzy of self-righteousness and fear. The people who are still fanatically all-in seem to want to be controlled. They enjoy the submission, the division, and the snobbery of their government-backed beliefs. It gives their meaningless lives meaning, and a false sense of power over others who won't bow down to the doctrine of the day. And they'll do anything to keep all this from changing. They'll cling to this pandemic and the protocols no matter what.
-- Jesse Watters
What the [the Prime Minister] said ... it's morally reprehensible, it's outrageous. It's the type of commentary that a Prime Minister who's supposed to represent and look after the interests of all canadians should absolutely not be saying. It's the sort of thing that the media should be ripping him apart for.
You might not agree with the medical choices being made by certain people, but how can we have a country where there's this sort of division being fomented by the ostensible leader.
This is scapegoating at its most odious.
As the tyranny is ramping up, this seems to be a sign of panic. They're lashing out and attacking certain groups and trying to foment more division because their narrative may be starting to fall apart and they can see that.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter, lawyer
As we know, the law hasn't really been an impediment to the Canadian government doing things they want to do for the last two years.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter, lawyer
I've been arguing that the unvaccinated should not be unduly discriminated against we've seen. [Some] health care professionals [are] about to launch a judicial review against ... the government to say it's against the law to sack them from their jobs because they haven't had the vaccine. I've got to tell you I'm a hundred percent behind these people. This is about freedom of choice. And you know something, in Israel where they're now very advanced with the fourth jab, infection rates are rising, so
the whole thing is a complete nonsense.
-- Nigel Farage
Haiti did not vaccinate its citizens. The official vax rate is 1.4%. The country has one of the lowest covid death rates in the world.
-- site: Covid Positive News
I'm not sure so much thought is involved in this. People are constantly being urged what to think, but there's very little effort diverted to explain to people how to think. And when people are being told what to think, then again you're living in an unfree society. A lot of the things that that people say about about COVID seems to me to be open to dispute ... interpretation of the figures seems to me to be one of the most crucial parts of the whole episode, and one which I'd like to see seriously re-examined. But this only happens when we live in a society where people want others to think, and where the leadership of society wants people to think, and why people are educated to think. And we have shown very seriously over the past couple of years there isn't much thinking going on in our society, either at the top where it's governed, or in general.
-- Peter Hitchens
Even during a pandemic, there are more considerations that are needed than just public health, and there are undeniable tradeoffs involved in pandemic restrictions. When a government decides to, for instance, take away the right of mobility of its citizens, or their right to worship, or invade their privacy, or impose on them vaccinal passports, or close down businesses, we should be entitled, at the very least, to expect these decisions to be based on a broad range of considerations and perspectives.
-- Michel Kelly-Gagnon
Our political leaders have not only circumvented the parliamentary process to produce provisions that violate the Canadian Charter of Rights, but they've abdicated their responsibility for overall governance, which is the balancing of all sorts of competing interests, to a narrow so-called public health policy, and that that's also inappropriate governance in the most fundamental sense.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Premier Brian Peckford
Your case is ... in the early stages of ... the of the pandemic, when people didn't understand the magnitude of the risk, there was potential for justification for reducing parliamentary complexity to short-term efficiency. But as the pandemic has unfolded and we become more aware of its true risks, or lack thereof, we should have returned to the principles of parliamentary democracy as rapidly as possible. And with less and less justification, that's continued to happen, that circumvention of the parliamentary
process has continued to happen. I don't see how anybody can possibly make the case that ... conditions ... are as uncertain and dire as those ... in the initial phases of the pandemic.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Premier Brian Peckford
You're mounting a challenge to the integrity and constitutional appropriateness of a series of laws that have been passed in Canada over the last two years, and you're mounting that as one of the establishers of the Charter, upon which the entire country is predicated, making the claim that these actions violate both the spirit and the law that governs our land at the deepest possible
level of analysis.
That's the first thing. The second thing is the collusion between the press and the governmental agencies that are circumventing the parliamentary process is so intense that it's almost impossible to have this discussion in the public landscape; there aren't
venues for that.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Premier Brian Peckford
These sacrifices were first presented as temporary, but it seems politicians and public health officials have become comfortable keeping them as permanent back-pocket options in place of more innovative and, frankly, more effective solutions. Whenever restrictions are eased or lifted, there remains a persistent threat that the hammer will come back down at some point.
Our leaders often say the decision to limit our rights is hard, and yet falling back on draconian measures has clearly become the easy way out for them.
It’s disturbing to watch these rights be cast aside time and time again, with little thought as to how doing so may change the very fabric of our nation. The longer we treat basic freedoms as optional, the harder it’ll be to return to a state where they’re unassailable and truly guaranteed.
-- National Post
[The] view that the [proof of vaccination] policy is “popular” is hardly a justification for it because decisions about fundamental freedoms shouldn’t be made on the basis of public opinion. The very fact that this policy disadvantages a minority group—those with certain physical disabilities who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons—is a clear example of why rights are not granted on the basis of popularity. John Locke long warned against the tyranny of the majority. It’s why we have a constitution after all.
-- Christine Van Geyn
I'm not easily forgiving anybody who advocated and supported discrimination and segregation against people who didn't want to take the jab, or who wished pain and death upon them. It isn't simply a mistake. It is a demonstration of your evil nature.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I can't forgive and forget the people who maliciously enabled the tyranny against us for paltry things such as virtue signaling and social acceptance. There are many people who fall into this category and there are many others who had good intentions and were convinced that they were doing the right thing. I personally have empathy and no ill will towards the latter people. The people that I have a problem with are the former the ones who seem to revel in the fact that they have some sort of elite status. They love the fact that they can get access to restaurants and bars with their little passport while those of us who refuse to comply are barred from entry. And that's part of the reason that many of these people don't want the pandemic to be resolved and the restrictions to end because then they'd lose their elite status.
-- Brittany Sellner
There are people whose reaction to being proven wrong about something that caused immeasurable harm is basically 'oh well oops the science it wasn't clear on that issue', yet well perhaps the science would have been clear if you didn't aggressively censor every single scientist or healthcare professional or concerned citizen who had a different opinion than you. These people give us back our freedoms and then expect us not only to be happy about it, but grateful, as if our freedoms are theirs to give, and as if they are so benevolent to allow us outside our homes to go order a cup of coffee. Do not forgive these people, do not forget, and never ever allow yourselves to trust them.
-- Brittany Sellner
At first you start polite. I'm still going to be relatively polite, but I do firmly believe these politicians need to be publicly mocked and publicly ostracized for what they're doing in terms of unscientific garbage and absolute social destructive policy. If you mock them, then maybe other people will be saying well we'll be swayed to think yeah there's something absurd about what they're doing. There is something indefensible about what they're doing.
-- David Freiheit
You've heard me talk about idea pathogens. It is amazing to see the level of apathy and cowardice that allows for these realities to take place. It's not as though there are bigger guys that are fighting you, and they're winning the battle. You're simply opening the door and saying yeah come in and do whatever you'd like - you own me.
-- Gad Saad
Cloaking it under 'the greater good' is an amazing concept, because anything that is for 'the greater good' - there is no individual atrocity that could not be committed and justified in the name of 'the greater good'. And people don't really appreciate that until they come for them, and that's that's when people realize that 'the greater good' ... individual rights are
'the greater good', and if you don't value those, you're actually not fighting for 'the greater good' at all.
-- David Freiheit
I don't want to draw in the analogies. I'll say one thing: I never understood how society as a whole could descend into the madness of the of nazi Germany, until I'm living through this. And it's not to say that everyone's like ... well they're not
shipping people off. Yes they're not doing the same things, but the rationale is the same. The idea that people think Nazi Germany occurred overnight, where you could justify what you had justified doing to your fellow citizens. It's I'm seeing it now over time - we're two and a half years into this pandemic or two years in - we're not talking about winding it down. We're not talking about two weeks to flatten the curve - we're talking about taxing the unvaccinated, we're talking about 50 plus percent of the population allegedly if you believe these falsified polls which I don't ... supports imprisonment of the unvaccinated. I mean
what is next when you when you have such targeted hatred against an identifiable group? Are what you basically saying - exclude them from society? Talk about denying them health services, talk about taxing them extra for health services, and ultimately talk about imprisoning them for not wanting to get vaccinated. It's a rhyme - it's not quite as sharp of a rhyme - but it is as much of a rhyme as, not just 1930s Germany, but of other eras of that have descended into this collective madness.
-- David Freiheit
When you've given up your bodily autonomy, you've given up everything, and I thought that would have been the line.
-- David Freiheit
The government state, it grows exponentially like the proverbial blob. And the bigger it gets, the more it needs, and then the harder it goes after ... you chase people out. You get the brain drain, you get the financial drain. As we've seen in Canada specifically as relates to doctors, thus creating a situation where we have crappy healthcare infrastructure, thus creating a situation where the pandemic hits worse, thus creating a situation where the government has to come in and say look we've got to lock you down to compensate for the consequences of our neglect for decades.
-- David Freiheit
Why were such [ill-informed] voices amplified by the media? Why were the likes of [informed professors] silenced ignored and
smeared? Because the television media drunk the lockdown kool-aid. Their entire grift was predicated on keeping the British public terrified, cowering inside their homes, awaiting their daily dose of fear porn from BBC News, Sky News, ITN. Ratings and clicks; ratings and clicks. So of course they're going to amplify and make media stars out of the most ardent scare-mongering lockdown advocates, no matter how many times they were catastrophically wrong, and no matter the weight of the devastation that this has inflicted on our society.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Censors have a fantasy that if they get rid of all the Berensons and Mercolas and Malones, and rein in people like Joe Rogan, that all the holdouts will suddenly rush to get vaccinated. The opposite is true. If you wipe out critics, people will immediately default to higher levels of suspicion. They will now be sure there’s something wrong with the vaccine. If you want to convince audiences, you have to allow everyone to talk, even the ones you disagree with. You have to make a better case. [Some] people still get this, but the censor’s disease of thinking there are shortcuts to trust - is spreading.
-- Matt Taibbi
Looking at what's best for ordinary people, what's the endpoint? Surely it's a fairer society where more people are free, where we accept there are going to be differences, but we don't oppress and control people, and we don't prevent people from protesting when there are new laws introduced. Even when you happen to agree with the position of the authoritarian state, you of course have to be aware that it might not always be that way.
-- Russell Brand
I always think if you agree with what the government is telling you, and the media is telling you, have a little think first; have a little think before you go too far down that line.
-- Russell Brand
For a virus to be infectious, it has to enter the cell and start replicating there. You need a whole virus. The PCR test, on the other hand only gets fragments of a virus. And the most important thing is that it can be used in such a way, abuse it in such a way as to create cases that otherwise wouldn’t exist.
-- Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
You should be very observant of ... a particular narrative and how that narrative serves the interests of the powerful. Like the other day when we were talking about how unvaccinated healthcare workers and the unvaxxed were to blame for the spread of coronavirus, when another narrative that could be told ... is that hospitals are underfunded, and if you don't fund hospitals correctly, they won't be able to deal with diseases efficiently. One story blames a small population that have no power; the other story points towards corporate irresponsibility and government mishandling. Which story do you think the powerful want you to believe?
-- Russell Brand
Because vaccination is not reducing transmission, the current federal border policy for truckers makes no sense. An unvaccinated trucker does not pose any greater risk of transmission than a vaccinated trucker.
-- Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan [trucker convoy and protest]
The truckers should tell the government, ‘The sooner you comply, the sooner we can go back to normal. We’re all in this together!’.
-- somebody on the internet [trucker convoy and protest]
[Canadian Prime Minister] says the [mandate-protesting] truckers have no right to shut down the economy and to prevent people from living their day to day lives. Does not appreciate the irony that his government – for the last two years – has shut down the economy and prevented people from living their day to day lives.
-- Candace Owens
There's been a myriad of ways by which rulers have argued that your position has to be squashed, not because they're mean or bad, but because it's for 'the greater good'. And this is what we now see today and the soft dictatorships that is certainly growing in velocity in the west.
It is truly remarkable to see how easily it is for most people in the west to revert to the basal instinct of using all means to silence those with whom they disagree. The latest trend is to posit that anyone who disagrees with me is engaging in misinformation. Thus for the collective good, the misinformation spreaders must be silenced. Apparently this is not a violation of freedom of speech because it serves as a higher noble goal. Nothing is more important than freedom of speech - nothing. Everything that is decent in a free and enlightened society stems from that fundamental freedom. Authoritarian regimes throughout human history have utilized a variety of strategies to silence the 'rubes', but the argument is always the same - it's for 'social cohesion', 'it's for the greater good', 'for your own good'. If we don't eradicate this return to the epistemological dark ages, we will pay a very steep price.
-- Gad Saad
I have MS and I take an immunomodulator to keep it in remission. I recently got COVID, and had a rough go of it, likely due to my condition. None of this entitles me to pretend that you living your life as you see fit is an act of harm against me.
-- Spike Cohen
‘Unacceptable views’ in Canada in 2022:
Want to live a normal life
Be free to work, move around, shop, go to school
Enjoy equal rights
Not be demonized, segregated, and persecuted by one’s government.
-- Maxime Bernier
I followed the narrative, so much so that I was public about it. Not just on social media but mainstream media too. Slowly and reluctantly after critically appraising the evidence and independent verification from some brilliant minds I’ve had to change my mind. We must do better.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
I was the first in the world to publicly say this in The Times newspaper in October where I discounted the contribution of the mRNA jab to excess cardiovascular death. I now realise I was wrong!
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
We’ve been completely conned and the truth does not look pretty.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
From everything I know and have learnt from the most reliable pieces of evidence and experts in the past few months has caused me to lose sleep. I feel sick.
Good grief. What have we done?!
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
It’s time to end this nightmare. And to those of you that are still brainwashed there’ll be no better time than now not just to open your mind, but to clean it.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Every organization mandating boosters in young healthy people knowing the data on omicron's breakthrough rate despite boosting is making a big error.
It is ethically bankrupt, it is scientifically bankrupt, and it is going to cause serious damage to future vaccination efforts.
-- Vinay Prasad
Justice will prevail because mandating this biological agent is unscientific, unethical and impractical.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Full stop right here. Any public policy measure – from vaccine passports to discrimination – cannot be justified under the science, even if one's conscience is OK with apartheid. In fact, clearly this shows that, especially with Omicron, the vaccinated are the super-spreaders. Before we get to hospitalizations and deaths, the notion that the unvaccinated are somehow responsible for the continued spread of this virus is completely contradicted by the data.
What is clearly evident both from the hospitalizations and deaths is that the double-vaccinated are now worse off per capita even against critical illness, and that pattern appears to be accelerating. Again, this evidently shows a pattern of negative efficacy even against critical illness over time as the shots wear off.
It takes a true religious level of adherence – like a believer – to continue supporting his narrative, despite the plain facts before our every eyes.
-- Daniel Horowitz
Israel, the only quadruple-vaxxed country in the world (also using mask mandates and Covid passports), just broke global record for daily Covid cases.
-- Dr. Eli David
With N95 mandates, vaccine passports and 2 months of a lockdown for unvaccinated people, cases in Austria have reached a new high.
It's amazing how consistently and comprehensively COVID authoritarianism and The Science(tm) fails and how uninterested media outlets are in covering it.
-- Ian Miller
When the truth comes out, do not ask me how I knew. Ask yourself why you didn't.
-- somebody on the internet
We never needed lockdowns. We never needed to cause this horrible toll on society. What we needed to do was build health care capacity. The reason we're in lockdown is not covid. The reason we're in lockdown is that Ontario's health care capacity is deficient, and that has done nothing the last two years to build up Ontario's health care capacity. So we need to end this. we We need to end the lockdowns, we need to end the passports, and the mandates, and we need to return to normal.
-- Roman Baber
It's amazing how many people would prefer to coerce others than to tolerate the freedom of others in exchange for their own.
-- Joe Rogan
We got vaccinated. 84% of Cdns got a shot. 77% are 2x vaxxed. And guess what? We’re still locked down. We're still compelled to wear masks. We still catch covid. Liberals are singularly focused on the wrong antidote. They're so blinded by partisanship they can't course correct.
-- Candice Malcolm
Understanding that aerosol spread was from symptomatic to susceptible, we learned quickly that there was no need for lock-downs or other draconian measures. The Great Barrington Declaration was correct.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Asymptomatic spread was the biggest false narrative. It led to unnecessary lockdowns [and] social distancing; it led to off-label and completely scientifically unsupported asymptomatic testing. It is completely illegal and off the rails, from a regulatory perspective, to ever test somebody with a nasal PCR or antigen test who does not have acute symptoms.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
We've reached critical mass: pejoratives like "anti-vaxxer" and "conspiracy theorist" no longer hold any weight. Joe Rogan (unintentionally) made the world realize that these words are mostly used to deflect from truth. They are panicking. Truth has caught up with their lies.
-- Candace Owens
Adde "misinformation" and "disinformation". These words are purely weapons to silence dissent now.
-- Zuby (in reply)
One thing that really concerns me is the divisive comments of Justin Trudeau where he said ... he characterized all of the thousands of people involved in this as ... he said we should not tolerate them. And he said that they are holding unacceptable views that don't represent the views of Canadians. Well whether he agrees with them or not, they are Canadians and they are entitled to hold their views about covid policy, and they're entitled to express them safely and lawfully.
This is the same Prime Minister who famously said about Canadian citizens convicted of terrorism that, quote, "A canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian". Well if he's willing to defend convicted terrorists as Canadians, why is he condemning thousands of people who feel strongly about a covid policy in this country?
I think the Prime Minister's job is to unite Canadians, not divide them. I think his divisive approach to this makes the situation a whole lot worse, as does his quarantine policy on cross-border truckers, which is forcing up food prices and making life even more difficult.
-- Jason Kenny, Premier of Alberta [trucker convoy and protest]
It would appear that the so-called 'fringe minority' is actually the government. If the government had the mandate of the people, there would be a significant counter-protest. There is not, therefore they do not.
-- Elon Musk
This is important and not only for Canadians but for many people of many countries to understand: the number of freedom-loving people in your nations outnumber those gutless amoeba’s scared of their own shadows several times over. You aren’t alone. It’s time you gather together and force your governments to take notice.
Tyranny can only succeed if the people choose not to fight back.
-- Steven Crowder
We can have our lives returned to normal. There's still some danger but we've got this with competent leadership and care. We could return our lives to what they should be; we could have our country back; we could move forward into the future in a normal
manner.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson
It’s been 2 years of doing the same thing. People being forced to get an injection against their will. People losing jobs. People losing homes. And nothing has changed. It's not about a virus. If it were, as with any previous virus, there would be talk of prevention and treatment. Not now. Just get a test and wait for a ventilator or get an injection. This all needs to stop and stop now. The government has had its time and failed. Justin Trudeau will go down as the biggest political embarrassment that this country has ever witnessed.
-- Derek Lynch
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
-- Mark Twain
Downtown Ottawa is filled to the brim with people stacked on top of each other, protesting mandates from the supposed 'deadly virus', that led to the tyrannical measures in the first place.
And the only things people seem concerned about are the politics of the situation, and 'loud horns', rather than the 'mankilling super virus', tells you everything you need to know.
-- some guy on the internet
The vaccine fanatics - so wrong about so much so often.
-- Alex Berenson
Honestly, it's disheartening how many people are completely brainwashed by the Liberal propaganda. They believe everything they read from these media sources. It truly is a war of misinformation and so many people are in capable of critical thought or thinking for themselves.
-- Alanna Seery-Bunton
The postmortem of the last two years is sure to begin now in earnest. We will thereby be confronted by failure on an epic scale, orchestrated by our expert class.
Nationally and internationally, too many extreme decisions were made in too short a period by too few people with far too little reflection on the broader impact upon society.
In pushing for their preferred remedies of lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing—as well as flirting with vaccine passports and mandates—our experts intervened like never before in the proper functioning of a free society.
They have made themselves the inevitable target of future investigations and potential retribution.
-- Alex Story
'The science changes'. Yes, it keeps changing into things people said months ago and got banned for.
-- Clifton Duncan
How quickly we forget about what history teaches us. Those who fully comprehend the tyranny taking place right now will not submit because we understand the ramifications of doing so.
-- Tiamma Lee
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
-- Malcolm X
There is now, nor has there ever been, any science behind 'lockdowns' or 'masking' or any of the crimes that have been perpetrated against peaceful people. The [left political party] have, for a long time, been the party of authoritarianism in the name of 'the greater good'.
-- some guy on the internet
If you’re going to adhere to what is normal practice… wouldn’t it be smart to go to doctors who are actually treating the illnesses, rather than rely on [those] of the world that are sitting in the ivory towers, the public health officials that don’t actually treat patients?
That is in effect what America has done. We’ve relied on doctors who don’t practice medicine, while we have vilified and censored and ridiculed those doctors that have exposed themselves to the illness - many of them got exposed, they contracted Covid. They treated themselves with using these cheap generic widely available drugs successfully. It has made no sense what we’ve done during this last two years.
-- Ron Johnson, US Senator
Our governments have violated our constitution on many levels creating mandates, orders which are only valid if we consent. Our governments have broken National/ International laws and treaties against the people to push their agenda. Our governments have acted as organized criminals with their agents to extort, assault, obstruct justice. Our governments have terrorized our domestic society with threat of fines, jail, loss of jobs, no school, university, sports holding our children hostage if we do not submit to an experimental drug. They have destroyed or are working hard to destroy our economy. They are destabilizing our Nation. Please look up the definition of domestic terrorist’s and they fit the bill. They expect us to follow unlawful mandates that only have power if we consent. The government is an unlawful crime syndicate, breaking laws and stacking the deck in their favor to continue their abuse. When the government no longer works in the best interest of the people it is no longer valid. It is not the government institution causing the problem it is the people in positions of power who are causing the problem and they do not play by the same rules that you do. These people do not deserve your respect, call them out by name.
-- Dianne M.
Another prediction come true. The ones that drew the hardest line are now saying 'That wasn't me, I was never in favour of locking down or harsh mandates'. Many of the public will be the same. They'll be saying similar stories about how they weren't on board with the draconian measures. Pathetic people.
-- Johnny Cox
Amazing to see all the people suddenly so concerned about businesses being shut, after having advocated for lockdowns and restrictions for two years. Pathetic hypocrisy.
-- Spencer Fernando
[On mass formation psychosis] It's in the open. All of this is in the open. Everybody ought to realize, we don't have to be conspiracy theorists, we can just report the news.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
I encourage everyone to be safe and take care of your family, I do. But there's still some people that don't want to take it. And you shouldn't have to be forced to take something you don't want.
-- Shaquille O'Neil
The ones telling others to 'trust the science' are anti-science because that's not how science works in the first place.
-- Manda (somebody)
Lockdowns should be rejected out of hand. While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
-- Johns Hopkins study
Our medical professionals shrugged as a significant number of their coworkers were unceremoniously released during a health crisis. Callous university administrators and neurotic faculty members expelled a proportion of their students. Many business owners adopted the irrational and immoral vax passes simply to survive an assault upon their livelihoods while other members of their local communities shuttered their businesses. Overall, Canadians have been steamrolled, and many Canadians have been complicit in the gradual destruction of everything they once held dear and boasted about as Canadians.
Unfortunately, there also remain many Canadians who seem glad to be ruled, insisting that we all must be uniformly and strongly ruled, unable to imagine living without being ruled.
-- Travis Smith
And now our dear leader [the Canadian Prime Minister] has now gone into hiding after a tweet that, when you boil it down, said, "the vaccines have failed; get vaccinated". Yes, we're at that stage of the deterioration of things, and it's not good.
-- Travis Smith
[On the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms] You have your rights and your freedoms as an individual. This business of group rights ... completely disguises your rights as an individual. And we've got to be very careful going forward that we don't lose these rights to these groups, that they take over and dominate the government[s]. You must remain steadfast, that as an individual you come first, the groups come second. And that's very important for any democracy, anywhere in the world. When the individual gets submerged by a group or something else, that's the beginning of the decline of our democracy.
I helped write the damn thing, and they're wrong, and we're right!
-- Premier Brian Peckford
The covid fanatics have been wrong on every level: scientific, ethical, legal, in terms of health outcomes, mental stability, social peace, economic costs.
-- Maxime Bernier
I know of several families that include a vaccine-hesitant member or two among them. They know that if they want to continue breaking bread together in the years to come, they will have to exercise patience, forbearance and an honest commitment to listening and understanding. Apparently Justin Trudeau can't be bothered to exercise these virtues for the family that is Canada.
-- Kate Lynch
[On the Canadian Prime Minister maligning protesters] Start being a public servant instead of a public lecturer. They don't deserve to be treated like second-class citizens. They don't need to be told to fall in line and surrender to your cult of vaccines and one-size-fits-all medicine. Start listening to them because they make more sense than you do.
-- Sean Hannity
[Private medical company] and [Private medical company] COVID-19 vaccine business model: government gives them billions, gives them immunity for any injuries or if doesn't work, promotes their products for free, and mandates their products. Sounds crazy? Yes, but it is our current reality.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
This is not "misinformation" or "disinformation" — the CV19 injections are causing frighteningly large numbers of deaths based on statistical, epidemiological data.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
When will covid fanatics in our governments and media realize that by trying to denigrate and crush all dissidence, they’re actually destroying social peace, cohesion and harmony?
Dehumanize, denigrate, stigmatize and vilify peaceful dissidents to justify crushing them.
Trudeau and the lying media have been doing it for months.
That's the playbook of all authoritarian fascist and communist regimes.
-- Maxime Bernier
The real pandemic is people not being able to admit they were wrong.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Tip to whoever is playing [US President's] brain this week: The reason your messaging doesn't work anymore, the reason you are being tuned out at a record pace, the reason your incoherence has become almost physically painful to hear, the reason boosters are deader than lockdowns, isn't because of me or Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
It's because you have lied and lied and lied and all the CDC charts in the world can no longer hide reality. People see their vaccinated friends and family sick with Omicron. They see who is dying - the elderly and infirm, vaccinated or not.
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking.
Everybody knows that the captain lied.
At this point your best bet to is admit the truth: Covid is here to stay, the vaccines failed, therapeutics are our best bet, we're gonna test them as fast as possible, in the meantime get back to your lives, all mandates are out, and by the way [US health bureaucrat] will be headed to a well-deserved retirement by Valentine's Day.
You won't, you can't, but you should. It's both the truth and your only hope. And lying hasn't been working out so good of late.
-- Alex Berenson
I hate the fact that we live in a 'democracy' where we have to fight to be free of governmental overreach, government theft, and endless government intrusion. This is akin to fighting for your right to have two eyes, two kidneys, and the right to breathe. Freedom is the most fundamental right that defines our human dignity. And yet, we are sinking to the default reality of human history. A few dictators, despots, and “elected” officials deciding how much of our money we get to keep, when we can cross the street, when we can visit our family, when we can open up our terraces (on our private property), how we can make renovations to our home, along with infinite other oversights. Protect us domestically, protect us from external threats, and f**k off. We are free people. You work for us.
-- Gad Saad
Our governments took a bad thing, and through overconfidence, monumental incompetence, and with the dull-eyed stubbornness of mules, made it massively worse. More importantly, when they must have known they were making it worse, they did it again, and again. Now, rather than take responsibility and own up to their catastrophic failures, maybe say sorry for all the lives ended, lives ruined, lives compromised, a generation of children used like sandbags to protect the vulnerable from a flood, like stab-vests worn on the chests of adults, they keep holding up the tattered rags of covid like the remnants of a curtain to stop us seeing the reality that lies behind it. What lies behind that shabby curtain are consequences. And even now, those powers-that-be don't want us loooking at them, far less talking about them, and thereby understanding the crippling reality of them.
-- Neil Oliver
These protests are in response to the unprecedented infringements of the most basic and fundamental of rights that Canadians are supposed to enjoy, and historically have enjoyed well before the charter even existed, but which were entrenched in the charter.
This is such a monumental and historical thing and this is a battle for the very soul of our nation and for, again, those most basic of freedoms and rights. The right to visit family, the right to wear what you want whether you're wearing a face covering or not, the right to work, the right to choose what goes into your body - that's something that once upon a time the very Prime Minister who's pushing these things said that people in Canada have the right to
decide what happens their own body. These protests was the forcing of a vaccine mandate upon the trucking industry after it already been forced on everyone, but the truckers, to their credit, unlike other professions, they banded together and they're fighting back.
They're fighting for the very soul of our country and that's why they're there. And we're way past the point of dialogue. Some people may be complaining you know we should have a peaceful dialogue. Well the thing is there has been no dialogue whatsoever, no discussion, no allowance for dissenting viewpoints for two years, and the Prime Minister has said that he will not speak to the protesters, he will not negotiate, he will not talk to them, so there is no dialogue. All they can do is stay there and make things as disruptive as possible until change happens. This is what happens when there's a complete breakdown of the democratic system. This is the fallout of a monumental and utterly complete failure of leadership on all levels from municipal to federal.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter
The contrived coronavirus crisis has now been ongoing for nearly 2 years now [sic], and there’s absolutely no data showing that being unvaccinated poses any increased risk to anybody, if there was, you can be sure that would be the focus of the [UK NHS] letter, not ‘professional responsibility’.
-- web site Nursing Notes
Unfortunately, the majority in Quebec seem to love kissing the government's ass! Some kind of masochist craving where they willfully subjucate as slaves to the tyrant!
-- James Whitney
I think this kind of impulse is not limited to Quebec by any means. It's a very Canadian thing to crave safety and low risk. It's also very easy for many to believe that compliance equals compassion.
-- Paul Bulas
If you’re obese and unvaccinated, or 85 and still crowd-surfing at music festivals, yes this will likely go badly for you. But at some point, that has to stop being my responsibility. Doesn’t it make more sense to focus on helping the vulnerable stay safe and let the rest of us go back to living normal lives? There’s always going to be another variant. We can’t go on, forever, in permanent hair-on-fire, cancel Christmas, hand-jobs through a hazmat suit, freak-the-f***-out mode!
It's time to do what a growing list of countries have done and announced we’re going back to something more like normal. Beginning by recognizing that what we’re doing to kids is unnecessary and horrible, and I don’t even like kids.
-- Bill Maher
We’ve had this problem in medicine for a long time. The same people who in private care always say get a second opinion, want to allow only one in the public debate. But plainly the medical-industrial complex has not earned the right to claim monopoly status on information about his virus, or medicine in general. Yes, free speech has allowed people to hear misinformation sometimes, and a lot of it was yours.
-- Bill Maher
Despots reward compliance with more oppression.
-- Thomas Massie
In my view, technocracy has trumped the sound principles, established over decades and centuries, of basic medical practice, immunology, virology, pharmaceutical sciences and public health generally. In the process, political democracy, personal freedoms, free speech and choice have been dangerously sidelined and even censored.
-- Dr. John D. Flack
Of course the ‘bluechecks’ want to tell you that they’re just following the science in their new devotion to freedom. The science has changed! Dr. Leana Wen actually said so out loud, bless her heart. The science has changed in only one meaningful way in the last year-plus. The mRNA jabs look worse on an almost daily basis. But the uselessness of masks and lockdowns, the problems with school closings, Covid’s lack of risk to kids - we have known all that almost since the epidemic began.
In fact, what’s amazing is HOW LITTLE - not how much - has changed about the epidemiology of Covid in the last two years. I know. I have the receipts.
The control measures work just as well now as they ever have, which is to say not at all. If they did, we would not be headed into year three of Covid: The Little Epidemic That Could. No, what’s changed is the fact that despite two years of lectures, most people now understand the uselessness of what we’ve done. What’s changed are the polls.
Now we just have to make sure none of this ever happens again.
-- Alex Berenson
All the authoritarian measures Ottawa and the provinces have imposed for two years were immoral, illegal and unconstitutional.
-- Maxime Bernier
One of the most alarming developments of the past few years has been pandemic groupthink and the ferocity with which it has stifled dissenting views and debate. Anyone who questioned the efficacy of lockdowns was accused of deliberately endangering the lives of others. Those who sought out alternative COVID-19 treatments rejected by mainstream experts were shamed and even deplatformed by social media companies. The message was simple: Question the COVID narrative, and there will be consequences.
But there were still many brave enough to buck the mob mentality. And as time has gone on and scientific data on COVID and pandemic restrictions have become more accurate, it has become clear that the dissenters were right.
-- Kaylee McGhee White
There is not state of emergency and no threat to Canadians' security that justifies invoking the Emergencies Act. What we have is a series of violations of our fundamental rights and freedoms that a tyrannical government wants to keep in place by crushing dissent. They're only asking for two weeks of emergency powers to flatten the bouncy castles.
First you demonize your opponents. Then you falsely accuse them of planning a violent insurrection. You bribe the press to do your propaganda. Finally, you declare a state of emergency and give yourself extraordinary powers to crush dissent.
Have we seen this before in history?
-- Maxime Bernier
Using the Emergencies Act demands a true threat to national security, such as the threat of violence for the "the purpose of achieving a political, religious or ideological objective," or the overthrow of "the constitutionally established system of government in Canada." The suggestion that those definitions apply to the current situation, concluding that the legislation is essentially "unusable."
In less than a month, the prime minister has gone from dismissing the Freedom Convoy as a "small fringe minority," to invoking legislation that is designed for a foreign invasion or a civil war.
None of the new powers would even need to be considered if it wasn't for Trudeau's relentless desire to attack and divide Canadians for political gain.
-- Carson Jerema, Wesley Wark
We went from “15 days to slow the spread” to “you’re fired if you don’t get the jab” to “your bank accounts are frozen if you protest against us”. Somehow we are still the conspiracy theorists.
-- pseudonym Anonymous Patriot
No one should be demonized, hated, or discriminated against because of the choice they make with their own body.
Do away with modern-day segregation. If like the Medical Officer said, two doses offer minimal protection against infection, then the suggestion that risk of someone transmitting the virus is lower because their risk of infection is lower, is logically false. No one is putting others at risk, and no one should be made to do anything against their will. I am convinced that history will judge the last year as some of the darkest times in Ontario's history.
-- Roman Baber
I remember reading about propaganda in history books and thinking “wow this is so obvious, nobody would fall for this today”. Boy was I wrong.
-- somebody on the internet
If you believe that basic human liberties are contingent upon consumption of a product from a giant pharmaceutical company, that is in bed with the government, who made this product off taxpayer money, that is shielded from liability from its consumers, by the government … then YOU are a fascist.
-- Dave Smith
[Canadian Prime Minister]’s options were to lift the mandates and give Canadians back their freedom, or send in the riot cops. And [Canadian Prime Minister] has chosen to club peaceful citizens like it’s a bountiful seal harvest.
-- Sheila Gunn Reid
80 years later and the roles have flipped. Germans are praying for the rights, freedoms and safety of Canadians.
-- Rebecca (somebody)
Across the world, governments have accepted indemnity so that companies producing the vaccines don't have to pay compensation in the event of any harm done. And yet people hesitant about vaccine safety are dismissed and vilified as swivel-eyed tin hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Just being hesitant about vaccine safety and asking questions about products destined for their bodies. For wanting to wait and see what long-term research might reveal. Reasonable people are made targets for shame and abuse, sacked from their jobs, lives ruined. Careful now - people will say we are paranoid. No one can yet know the truth of it and yet scarcely has the topic even surfaced on mainstream media.
-- Neil Oliver
It's all about a virus apparently. A virus causing an illness from which almost everyone recovers. A virus whose victims are on average over 82 years old - older than average life expectancy. Let us never ever forget that fact - that fact from which all else has grown like poisonous weeds. It's for the greater good we're told; we're all in it together we're told. Now hand over your wallet and your dog and kneel down with your hands behind your back.
-- Neil Oliver
Telling people they can't feed their family unless they get the vaccine is just wrong.
-- James Gallagher, Assembly Leader
We’re giving a shot that makes a spike protein. That’s a toxin that latches to cancer genes in bad ways and turns off other pattern receptors. We don’t know how long the immune system is suppressed after these shots and how long these receptors are shut off.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
Remember, they used to release actual counts of the deaths of vaccinated people from Covid, but they stopped in October, once even their nonsensical “fully vaccinated” definition couldn’t hide what was happening to the numbers.
-- Alex Berenson
Justin Trudeau is living proof that annoying-but-harmless wokeism can quickly evolve into dangerous authoritarianism.
Never underestimate the force with which the self-righteous will act to suppress the freedom of others, especially under the guise of compassion.
-- Dan Crenshaw, US Congressman
Justin Trudeau's heavy-handed crackdown against peaceful protesters in Canada is not the action of a Western Democracy, but that of an authoritarian regime like Venezuela. [Trudeau's is] a government that is quickly becoming the embarrassment of the free world.
-- Yvette Herrell, US Congresswoman
Overreaching public health officials and politicians - and the journalists-in-name-only who served as their mindless, unquestioning megaphones - have fully earned our withering condemnation. Indeed, holding them accountable is essential to sparing ourselves and future generations from repeating this dystopian chapter of human history.
-- Brian McGlinchey
The increasingly bizarre and inconsistent 1984-style autocratic COVID19 dictates we have been victim to, have been shattering any belief that world health agencies, government leaders, global elites, and the international corporations they run, know what they are doing.
If there had been REAL health concern, COVID would have been long gone from our rear-view mirror by simply following worldwide expert frontline physicians, nurses, scientists, and researchers who’ve been bitterly attacked for sharing their knowledge of prevention strategies and resoundingly successful early treatment since the beginning.
-- Laraine C. Abbey-Katzev
If the scientists who promoted lockdowns were so wrong, and the scientists who knew it from the start were so right [like Jay Bhattacharya, MD], why are the scientists who were right called ‘fringe,’ and the scientists who were wrong still in charge?
-- Sharyl Attkisson
Mask wearers are cowering to the whims of the clinically insane.
-- Dr. Vernon Coleman
Nobody. Nobody was vaccinated with informed consent. Nobody.
-- pseudonym Unapologetic Conservative
There’s been no change in the underlying science. The ineffectiveness of those policies was apparent long ago. The destructiveness of those policies was apparent long ago.
-- somebody on the internet
Bona fide pandemics do not require an advertising budget to know. Safe and effective vaccines do not require compulsion for people to administer.
-- David Freiheit
You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it's not doing anything and we've got to stop with this COVID theater. So if you want to wear it, fine, but this is, this is ridiculous.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
Randy Hillier was a very early critic of PCR testing thresholds, restrictive lockdown policies, and the suspension of civil rights in Ontario. That’s called standing up for freedom. Draw your own conclusions about those who find it "controversial".
-- Derek Sloan
Just heard a guy say 'some of you have never read '1984' and it shows'. Isn't it the truth?
-- Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Real science loves questions - remember that the next time someone tells you the science is settled.
-- Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Let’s leave aside that there is near universal acknowledgment that lockdown was a bad idea with ruinous consequences that will linger as a shadow on the nation’s lungs for years to come. Doubts raised from the beginning, about every aspect of the official response, and which were loudly – even viciously – dismissed as tantamount to treason – are now revealed as entirely justified. Already long is the line of those who once baited and ridiculed those questioning the official narrative, but who are now keen to distance themselves from old opinions, in hopes of it appearing they were always wary, always unsure, that they too had had their doubts all along.
Surely the last two years have shown us that the powers that be are at least fallible – and that it is not just our right, but our obligation and responsibility to ask questions of those powerful people, in hopes of revealing as complete and as nuanced a picture as possible. Surely we owe that much to ourselves and to our children.
-- Neil Oliver
If there is one lesson that the government has learned from its mismanagement of the Covid crisis, it’s that the more they screw up, the more power they give themselves to remedy their own screwup.
-- David Freiheit
Take note of the people in your life who are making excuses for these sanctions and bellicose government actions, telling you that "it's just a little more economic hardship"—there is a good chance that these are the same people who told you that COVID restrictions were just "a little inconvenient" as those caused massive economic and social damage over the past two years.
These are the people who have spent the last couple of years proving to you that they have terrible judgment and cannot be trusted with anything serious or important.
You must recognize and internalize the fact that they will go along with ANYTHING. They will believe ANY lie, no matter how absurd. They will accept any tyranny, no matter how obscene.
They are a danger to you and every decent person you know, and you should treat them like it.
-- somebody on the internet
I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation.
-- Scott Stabile
I still remember very clearly when these people – including a lot of people with a lot of degrees – were telling us, 15 days to stop the spread. These people had no idea what they were talking about. [Those in power want people] to forget that their choices were the wrong choices that basically led to no appreciable benefit.
-- Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
We inverted the precautionary principle do not cause harm by doing the one thing we knew that would cause harm. Now, we watch the devastation.
-- Sunetra Gupta, Epidemiologist, University of Oxford
UK data showing the triples [jabs] are failing, and perhaps backfiring with greater rates of infection. WHO has warned against them for concerns over ineffectiveness or perhaps weakened immunity.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Sweden sent all their kids to school for two years; not one kid died. But it was irrelevant to Americans who, like sheep, ruined their child’s lives. That is how bad totalitarianism is: people will sacrifice their children to the state.
-- Dr. David Martin
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
-- F.A. Hayek
If a pharmaceutical company that’s basically in charge of the entire human population right now, and that’s true, is asking not to reveal its safety data for 75 years, you should get concerned because the only reason anyone would ask not to reveal safety data is if they’re afraid of what people are going to think about the safety data.
-- Dr. Jessica Rose
Public health is now “the definition of propaganda”, seeking behavioral outcomes through moralistic framing, frowning on objective data that could give “false reassurance”, said bioethicist Aaron Kheriaty.
-- Front Line Critical Care Alliance group
When evidence-based medicine was replaced by fear. Two years ago, we uncritically accepted unreliable mathematical models that predicted this kind of microbiological apocalypse. The world panicked and embraced a whole series of draconian measures of dubious effectiveness and enormous cost. Used fear as an agent of public policy which is totally anathema to principles of public health. Now enormous sunk costs of reputation, of politics, that make it so hard to change and so hard for many people to have to admit that what they did was wrong.
-- Dr. Richard Schabas, Former Chief Medical Officer of Health for Province of Ontario
"The Dissidents" - a group of scientists, many of whom are also medical doctors, who ask questions, while a majority of their peers have done away with the scientific method or have been cowed into silence. A handful of scientists and doctors have spent the past two years defending mainstream public health approaches and scientific rigor against the pandemic response bureaucracy.
-- Pierre Kory
Despite most people dropping the masks and life seemingly going back to normal, there is a significant minority of people who are still wearing the masks everywhere they go - including outdoors!
I often wonder, when will they stop? My conclusion is that they won't. These people will continue to wear these masks for the rest of their life, safe in their delusional belief that a little piece of cloth was the answer to the 'most deadly virus since the black death'. In fact, these people are merely signalling their mixture of fear and compliance, these are the people that the Establishment want the rest of us to be more like.
-- somebody on the internet
The lesson for mRNA fanatics should be obvious. Covid vaccine advocates have already run arguably the most massive and coordinated propaganda campaign in human history. It has stretched across governments, companies, the media, academia. It has drawn on cutting-edge social science research on ways to “overcome hesitancy” and induce compliance through fear and guilt. (I promise to come back to this issue.)
This campaign dwarfs the Kremlin’s efforts.
And it has succeeded. Across the United States and the rest of the developed world, something like 90 percent of eligible adults have taken at least two mRNA (or DNA) doses - far more than take influenza shots each year, and more than most vaccine advocates predicted when the jabs were first rolled out.
Yet the last two months have seen far more Covid infections than ever before. And the vast majority of Covid deaths in mRNA countries are now in the vaccinated.
I am not your problem. Censoring me may feel good, but it does nothing to solve your problem. Your problem is that your vaccines don’t work. If your vaccines worked, no one would listen to me. No one would be reading this email.
Stop lying. Stop censoring. Admit the truth. Make better vaccines and people will take them.
Until then, the resistance is only going to grow.
-- Alex Berenson
Covid emerged in 2019. Vaccines made for it in 2020. Covid mutated significantly since. People keep getting boosters of vaccine designed for 2019 virus. Why? Because Science™. Now shut up and go get your 4th shot.
When asked in 2020 what would happen if new variants emerge, [name brand company] CEO said “we will quickly update and release a new mRNA vaccine for new variants”. Well, no in 2022 people are still getting 4th and 5th shots of the original vaccine designed for the original 2019 virus.
-- Dr. Eli David
For two years the organized left, in Canada and the US, have championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals – call them the Lockdown Left – cheered on unprecedented levels of repression.
-- Christian Parenti
It's bad enough that the average IQ is so low out there. So many parents decided to just switch off their brains, and outsource their parental responsibilities to the state, and obey every bloody word that came out of the television when it came to how to live their lives, and what was best for their children. And that's to say nothing of the fact that a disturbing amount of parents consented on their child's behalf to have them jabbed with a substance they didn't even bother to research for themselves.
-- Dave Cullen
Vaccine mandates have no public health benefit, which is why they are not recommended by any global, national or local public health bodies (WHO, CDC, state and local health commissions, etc.).
Therefore, any institution that still has such mandates is going against the recommendations of public health experts to unjustly discriminate.
-- Debbie Lerman
You want to end the mandates? Make vaccine manufacturers liable. You want safe vaccines? Make vaccine manufacturers liable. You want effective vaccines? Make them liable. If you want to end all this now, we need to make vaccine manufacturers liable!
-- Dr. Christina Parks
"A science of real integrity would be one in which practitioners are careful not to cling to cherished hypotheses and take seriously the
outcome of the most stringent experiments". [Jon Jureidini & Leemon B. McHenry].
What I like about that sentence is, remember if you can, the atmosphere around the pandemic. Trust the science, follow the science. It was used as ideological leverage to create compliance. Because of course if something is empirically, definitely, indubitably true, there's no point in questioning it. If we're dealing with absolute, facts then we can relax. These are the facts, this is what you have to do, these are the medicines you have to take, we've done the science, we've done the research. There's no other factors at play, no one's trying to make money, no one's trying to get undue power or influence. That's what I suppose science diligently undertaken affords us, a kind of certainty. But we have to of course have faith and trust that these scientific models are in the hands of people that are behaving with moral integrity, not just using the veil of science, and the language of science to pursue a particular agenda.
-- Russel Brand
Nearly all policy analysis suffers from the same issue: too much complexity for the available data. Political partisans yearn for statistical backing for their views, but scientists can't deliver it. Yet researchers flood to favored fields because there is plenty of funding and interest in results, and they peer review each other's papers without applying the sort of rigor required to draw actual policy conclusions.
-- Aaron Brown, Risk Analyst & Statistician, RAND Corporation
Lockdowns are and always were a devastating moral outrage. And just because we've learned to live with covid in the west, doesn't mean those who promoted and implemented the horrors of lockdown shouldn't be held responsible and investigated, and if necessary prosecuted for the horrendous damage they've done to society.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
No matter what country and when, lockdowns were, are, and always will be a moral outrage.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
The utilization of mRNA vaccines in the context of infectious disease has no precedent. The many alterations in the vaccine mRNA hide the mRNA from cellular defenses and promote a longer biological half-life and high production of spike protein. However, the immune response to the vaccine is very different from that to a SARS-CoV-2 infection. We present evidence that vaccination induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health.
-- Stephanie Seneff, Greg Nigh, Anthony M. Kyriakopoulos, P. McCollough
But if we’re having resignations let them all go, all the panic-stricken conformists and groupthink victims who rushed this country into economic and social disaster in March 2020. Let them all go, [those] without sense ... hypnotized by guesswork dressed up as pseudo-science.
-- Peter Hitchens
At present we have astronomic Covid cases, most jabbed people have zero protection remaining, old and vulnerable surviving and life as normal, apart from utter chaos in the economy, inflation off the scale, and people unable to get NHS treatment for life threatening ailments. Factors that will kill many more than Covid has, ultimately.
-- Steve Balmforth
I’ve never seen people celebrating the absence of therapies – they celebrate when a paper comes out showing that IVM [ivermectin] doesn’t work. What do those people want? I just want one thing: I want science back.
-- Dr. Flavio Cadegiani
The fully vaccinated accounted for 92% of ALL covid-19 deaths in March [2022]. Covid-19 is currently on the rise again across the UI, but the data confirms cases, hospitalisations and deaths are only rising among the triple vaccinated population, whereas they are declining significantly among the unvaccinated population.
-- site: the media is the virus
Still waiting for liberals to explain...
- Where the flu went in 2020
- Why the global death count didn't change in 2020
- Why Covid didn't wipe out the homeless population
- Why billions of healthy people were quarantined for the first time in history
- Why Covid avoided Africa
- Why Covid avoided places that didn't lockdown
- Why a piece of fruit and a goat tested positive
- Why the majority of positive cases at the beginning of the pandemic were people who hadn't left their homes
- Why Covid was the first virus in history where the majority of people who supposedly had it were "asymptomatic"
- Why lockdowns did NOTHING to slow the spread
- Why the vaccines did NOTHING to slow the spread
- Why we've seen an 1,100% spike in myocarditis in children
- Why football stadiums were filled with maskless people while our children were muzzled in the classroom
- Why the violent riots of 2020 weren't "super spreader events"
- Why the MSM doesn't cover the millions of adverse reactions and tens of thousands of deaths reported to VAERS
- WHY "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" WERE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING AND YOU STILL REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT
-- Dave cullen
COVID is now an industry, an ideology, and a cult.
If you comply to make it end, your compliance means it never will.
-- Mark Dolan
You are absolutely entitled to *believe* whatever you want to. Everyone should. However, when your *belief* requires my active participation in order to maintain its security, your belief can f*** off. I am not required to cater myself and my way of being towards your beliefs.
-- Danny Zeck
Anything that smacks of exaggeration is irresponsible. Where there is irresponsibility, no one will trust what is said, and when that happens, the man who is transmitting the words will be in danger. Therefore the aphorism says, transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
-- The Book of Master Zhuang
Bad ideas, poor thinking will always exist. It should trouble us all when illogical people force others to participate in their delusion.
-- Vinay Prasad
We've seen the evidence base accumulate over time that masks and mandates have been completely useless, from real world data to randomized controlled trials like the DANMASK study, [but] there's been a concerted effort to maintain the fiction that masks are necessary interventions.
Mandates have failed quite literally everywhere they’ve been tried.
-- Ian Miller
Forcing pilots to take the injections – against the law, just to be clear – in order to keep their jobs. The rule is egregious, tyrannical and simply makes no sense from an epidemiological perspective that assumes the injections actually provide protection (which they do not).
-- site Natural News
They’ve promoted strategies that have caused harm to all people. They’ve promoted strategies that have led to the loss of livelihoods and the destruction of economies. We don’t need your leadership. It’s not great; it’s awful.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
One of the biggest unanswered questions of the entire pandemic is why aren’t the people who didn’t get vaccinated or wear masks dying in their millions?
-- Dr. Adam Aneevit
It is beyond any shadow of a doubt that the vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths. It’s unequivocal. Now I’m a card-carrying epidemiologist, I’m telling you, the vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
I think science needs to be restored to its proper place. I think the conversation, the free-flowing discussion within science that ought to happen to make science work was essentially hampered during covid. It was very difficult ... you have to pay a great cost to speak up, and that shouldn't be the case in science. In science, it should be if you have an idea, you say it, and then if you're right, you're right; if you're wrong, you're wrong. It's not a career ending event. What happened during covid was if you were going to be speak up, you were ... it was just an exhausting anxiety-ridden thing. I think that needs to be changed so that science is restored to this proper discussion.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Vaccinations don't prevent Long Covid; they probably promote it.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.
We were told, if we don’t take the vaccine we may Risk being hospitalised & maybe die.
They told us we must take 2 shots as the first one is not good enough.. then a 3rd & 4th booster.
We were told not to trust in our innate immune system, they told us it was useless against the “VIRUS”.
We were told to listen to the government, trust the govt, stay home, & save lives.
We were made to close our shops, leave family members dying in hospital & use masks, as it’s for the “greater good”.
We were called Tin foil conspiracy theorists.
But now look who was right? We so called Tin foil “conspiracy theorists” warned you all.. you never listened.
-- pseudonym dark_universe_09
As we all rejoice about the mask free plane rides, myself included, I realize that this charade has always been about the psychology shift that occurs in people willing to tolerate, accept and allow blatant nonsense and fundamentally unsound behavior and requests.
-- Dr. Steph Young
COVID “vaccines” offer ZERO benefits.
-- Dr. Joseph Mercola
I interviewed 2 anonymous nurses and one anonymous nurse practitioner. All 3 work in emergency settings around the country. All 3 noticed a sharp increase in blood clots, strokes, heart issues, cancer resurging, etc. in mid-late 2021. All patients had one thing in common.
-- Danny Zeck
World leaders and so-called 'experts' told the public that getting the jabs would prevent people from catching the disease. Not only was that a complete lie, but the jabs in fact gave many who took them terrible side effects.
-- Mark Collettt
There is no scientific justification for Trudeau’s travel ban for the unvaccinated.
Those who support it should recognize that they don’t care one bit about science, freedom or democracy, but simply act like intolerant barbarians.
-- Maxime Bernier
The problem with the "big lie" is that sometimes, the truth is simply too vast to hide.
There is nothing like watching all your vaxxed friends get covid despite being boosted and knowing 20 people with vaccine related complications but not a single unvaxxed person with "long covid" to make the tall tales look threadbare. People ultimately believe what they see and experience. And their experience here has been one of false claims and failed products. And that truth will ultimately come out.
-- pseudonym El gato malo
Somehow they couldn’t accept that an institution [BBC news] they had trusted all their lives was pumping electronic slurry into their living room every night. It was absurd, so it couldn’t be happening. Yet it was. I wonder how much they would have put up with before they eventually realised what was happening, if ever.
-- Peter Hitchens
We know that those who’ve been vaccinated can equally carry high volumes of virus and transmit, so the vaccine doesn’t prevent acquisition, doesn’t prevent carriage of the virus, doesn’t prevent transmission of the virus, doesn’t prevent disease from the virus. Well, at least it decreases hospitalizations and death … but the data out of Denmark just showed, not it doesn’t.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
Every six months insertions of foreign genetic material coding for a pathogenic/injurious spike protein should never ever be considered a new normal for human life. Let history record the distorted groupthink and the complicity of the academic biopharmaceutical complex.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Mandating investigational genetic biological products with high rates of fatal and nonfatal adverse events and no long-term safety data should trouble courts and justices who are of sound mind.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Whatever you think of what the Freedom Convoy became, the complaint that sparked it was not unreasonable. Given the vaccination rate and the unchecked spread of COVID in Canada at the time, it made no sense to require Canadian truckers travelling to and from the United States to be vaccinated. Recognizing this and changing the policy would have taken the wind out of the convoy before it arrived in Ottawa. Showing sympathy for unvaccinated truckers would have cost the federal government nothing (and, because the U.S. had the same rule, it wouldn’t even have changed anything). But by then [the Prime Minister] had backed himself into an ideological corner from which even common sense offered no escape.
At this point in the pandemic, these restrictions look less like public health measures and more like petty vindictiveness.
-- Howard Anglin
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
-- Aldous Huxley
People think you can germ-proof the world and never have to be in contact with the things that can hurt you, but you can't.
-- Bill Maher
Many masked men believe the news media. The news media was once deserving of the term "Fourth Estate", for they were an independent entity, separate from the established interests in society. Not here. Not now. They are mere shills for the status quo. Anyone who told you to mask up deserves for you to never listen to them again. Others were wise enough to at least not believe the media. But they did even worse in a way — they believed their bosses, their family members, their neighbors, and their doctors who fell for this, precisely because they believed the media, all the while assuring you that they followed "the science". Not only were you gullible enough for them to lie to you, but you were so errant in your ways as to not ask them for the alleged proof of science they assured you they were following. If you would have, you would never have worn a mask. There is simply no legitimate science backing up any masking policy.
-- Allan Stevo
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream led by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.
For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms of care and "prevention".
For the first time in history medical treatment, protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated a single patient.
-- Dr. Russell L. Blaylock
We declare and the data confirm that the COVID-19 experimental genetic therapy injections must end. The data now show that these experimental gene therapy treatments can damage your children as well as yourself. They can damage your heart, your brain, your reproductive tissue, and your lungs. This can include permanent damage and disablement of your immune system.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
To give a chronic lipid nanoparticle and a chronic spike-making factory in your body, in your cells — we know that spike is toxic. We are messing up permanently the immune systems of people, and who knows what disease they're going to die from secondarily.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
It goes right back to the original dossier, because the FDA treated this as if it was a normal 'vaccine', whatever normal vaccine happens to be, and not like a gene therapy product, which is what it was, and they didn't do reproductive toxicology rigorously. They didn't do genome toxicity. They didn't do biodistribution. They didn't do pharmacokinetics. It goes on and on. Why didn't they do their job?
-- Dr. Robert Malone
There has been a world-wide, societal, acute, sudden loss of rationality in the pursuit of, clinically speaking, a delusion, which is a fixed, false belief contrary to reality. An example of that would be - if I drive in a car by myself, I need to wear a mask to stay safe. That's a delusion, that's not being over protective, that's not being emotional, that is a trait of a mental illness, it's a sign of something gone awry in the code, a glitch in the head really, is what's going on.
-- Dr. Mark McDonald
It's simply not possible to obtain data demonstrating adequate longitudinal safety in the time period any pandemic can last. Those who pushed this line of argument and enabled the gene-based agents to be injected needlessly into billions of innocent people are guilty of crimes against humanity.
-- Dr. Michael Yeadon
Some politicians and academics are now trying to save face with false claims that vac mandates "outdated" or that logic for vac mandates "no longer holds". Fact: there never was and never will be any ethical/scientific justification for violating basic human rights with vac mandates.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
No, ... "trust in institutions" has not served it well during this period. What has happened is that we have seen how corrupt and/or incompetent the people in charge of our institutions really are, and – to our horror – how our misplaced trust in those institutions has led to an abject failure of our systems of democratic oversight and accountability. The same "trust in science" ... has been manipulated and hijacked in this period to produce broad-based support for the most damaging health and economic policy decisions I've seen.
-- Gigi Foster
This pandemic, even if real, was never an existential threat. I don't think you could ever have killed more than, say, 0.3% of the population, which is not very far different from a really bad flu year. And what do we do in a really bad flu year? Nothing.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
These limp-wristed bureaucrats will continue to suffer vaccine injuries, many of which will be serious and permanent. Their families will experience the same. But rather than use their positions to admit they were wrong and sound the alarm, they'll just quietly resign and disappear from public life, because that's the safer option.
These people are a disgrace.
-- Blair Cottrell
The only way that they can hold this together is by keeping us all from talking by censoring. Censoring is their weapon of choice because they cannot withstand logic, they cannot withstand reason, they cannot withstand facts, and they cannot withstand open debate. That's why they censor us. They will not debate us; they can only silence us. It's their only choice.
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
You give a three-year-old a hammer, everything becomes a nail, and I kind of now need to modify that if you give a public health bureaucrat a hammer, everything becomes a nail, and the hammer in that case is vaccine, and they seem to want to apply it to everything. Robert F. Kennedy, and I are aligned on this. What [he] has asked for, that's caused him to have all this backlash in pejorative labeling and defamation, he's merely asked for the data. He's asked for the data demonstrating safety and effectiveness, and he's asked for the data comparing safety and effectiveness in the context of this multi-inoculation strategy, which has never been developed and assessed adequately.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
The pandemic can be argued as still in full fledge due to the VACCINE; would have been over (endemic) but vaccine non-neutralizing Antibodies putting pressure on the spike are driving variants.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
The next time we have a worldwide pandemic, we have to come up with a better solution than everyone becomes Howie Mandel.
-- Bill Maher
It was the admitted goal of our own leaders to make life unlivable for the unvaccinated. And as a deputized collective, we force-multiplied that pain, taking the fight into our families, friendships, and workplaces. Today, we face the hard truth that none of it was justified — and, in doing that, uncover a precious lesson. It was a quick slide from righteousness to cruelty, and however much we might blame our leaders for the push, we're accountable for stepping into the trap despite better judgement.
And we truly let ourselves believe that going into another ineffectual lockdown would be their fault, not the fault of toxic policy. And so it was by the wilful ignorance of science, civics, and politics that we squeezed the unvaccinated to the degree that we did.
After months of engineered lockdowns, having someone to blame and to burn simply felt good.
So we cannot hold our heads high, as if believing we had logic, love, or truth on our side while we viciously wished death upon the unvaccinated. The best we can do is sit in the awareness of our rabid inhumanity for having cast so many aside.
Betting against them has been a scathing embarrassment for many of us. We took the bait by hating them, but their perseverance bought us the time to see we were wrong.
-- Susan Dunham
Where there is risk of injury, disability, and death, there must be free choice with no pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal. When freedom is violated, then there is action taken against those suppressing choice. Lawsuit time.
-- Peter McCullough
In early 2022, the FDA advised people to stop using certain baby formulas after just 3 infants were hospitalized and one died. We recall peanut butter if 10 people become sick (nobody died).
Yet we have a vaccine which has caused more than a million times as many injuries as baby formula and peanut butter, yet the government cannot detect any safety signals and wants to mandate that everyone get it.
There are more than 500 articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature documenting vaccine injuries. These injuries affect an estimated 10M Americans. We stop baby formulas after just one death.
-- Steve Kirsch
A lot of the propaganda and information that's been pushed on us about vaccine efficacy and safety is fraudulent. I don't know how else to say it. That is the legal word for when you know you are saying things that are not true.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
The more doses of these products that you receive, the higher your risk for infection, disease, and death, compared to those that remain 'unvaccinated'.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Mask mandates were never about the science, the evidence or [to] reduce transmission - they were only about spreading fear to brainwash people so they could sell more vaccines, brainwashing people to line up like sheep to [be] injected with an experimental substance.
Therefore, if you were a politician that made masks compulsory - your stupidity, ignorance & arrogance may have caused more deaths.
-- Craig Kelly
All of our bodies are different. We all react differently to medicine. Some of you, heck, react differently to peanuts! Something as safe as eating nuts, and some of you die from it, which is why we put allergy information on everything. And yet, here we are, nobody's taking any responsibility for imposing vaccine mandates when we know, just like peanuts, that people's bodies react differently. And some people have died from this thing.
-- Maajid Nawaz
Any drug that does NOT reduce all cause mortality for the intended population it is recommended for can not be claimed to have saved a single life. And that's before we even start to discuss quality of life disabling side effects. Think about it. REALLY think about it.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
The world has gone mad from massive propaganda and censorship to support the "noble lie" to get us vaxxed "for our own good". This campaign has long been divorced from objective data/science.
-- Pierre Kory, MD
There's no proof that masks prevent transmission. Instead, they most likely harm those wearing them. It's a disgrace that most of us are governed by brainless pseudoscientists and misanthropic globalists these days.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Pushing vaccines is irrational.
-- Dr. Harvey Risch, MD, PhD
We're going to have infectious variant after infectious variant every two months; the pandemic will never end. So if you continue vaccinating, you're going to cause more variants. Problem is, those variants could be a very lethal one.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
There is no epidemiologically relevant asymptomatic transmission of respiratory viruses. What we learned in medical school has been confirmed also for SARS-CoV-2 by numerous peer reviewed studies.
Therefore, all non-pharmaceutical interventions, namely antisocial distancing, isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, face masks in the public sphere, school closures and curfews, nowadays called lockdowns, for asymptomatic people, previously called healthy, are ineffective also against SARS-CoV-2 and do no good but do only harm.
The only two proven effective measures to somewhat contain the spread of respiratory viruses are those we have known for centuries: hygiene and self-isolation of sick people.
-- Dr. Thomas Binder, MD
It was deeply unethical for public health and media to stoke panic in the population to gain compliance with lockdown orders. The price paid includes sharp increases in population anxiety and a collapse in public trust in public health.
-- Jay Bhattacharya
It is difficult for this Court to imagine what could be more intrusive and more destructive to the employer-employee relationship than requiring employees to forfeit their bodily autonomy in the name of maintaining their livelihood.
-- Ramsey County, USA Judge Leonardo Castro
Covid proved that most health "experts" are idiots.
-- Dr. Eli David
The experience over the past 27 months clearly demonstrates that lockdowns and many Covid-19 regulations largely failed in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections from transpiring.
-- Jonathan Jansen, virologist
[in response to Jonathan Jansen] It took a population of non scientists to predict and come to this same conclusion as early as day 1 of lockdown regulations. Let's await their conclusions on the impact of vaccines in another 2 years.
-- Chubekile Ntloko
The opinion of 10,000 mean is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
-- Marcus Aurelius
They were still on social media saying, 'These vaccines are as safe as other vaccines'. There's absolutely no way that they could know this because it takes 10 years to develop safe vaccines, and these were rolled out after three or six months.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
The elapsed time taken to get an adequate amount of safety data is always longer than the feasible length of any pandemic in history. In other words, a new vaccine is always, let me say it again, always the wrong answer. It will always take you longer to do a responsible job of creating and testing a novel vaccine than the length of the pandemic. And if you take less time, it means you do not have an appropriate amount of safety data and therefore it's reckless to go and vaccinate the whole population.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
How can you explain a 50% rise in all-cause mortality after the vaccines and boosters rolled out? That's the problem. They can't explain it. You can't explain a 50% rise in all-cause mortality after the intervention that's supposed to reduce all-cause mortality was rolled out. They don't want to explain it. That is why they are never going to show you the Medicare data.
-- Steve Kirsch
This consistent narrative of safe and effective is a complete and utter lie. Official data from the UK and Israel reveals negative protection from the COVID vaccine.
-- Dr. Paul Marik
The unnecessary stress that [was caused by] the mismanagement of this pandemic, has been worse for most than the pandemic itself.
-- pseudonym: Commerce USA
It's remarkable how many people believe themselves intellectually superior for repeating what authority tells them.
-- somebody on the internet
The COVID cult did lasting damage to our kids. What happened to the United States' kids was not the result of an innocent mistake. It was the product of a concerted campaign of censorship and demonization of dissenting voices in support of premises that turned out to be wildly harmful to children. Scientists, doctors, and parents who urged schools to reopen based on available evidence were systematically ignored and silenced by politicians, public health bureaucrats, and legions of dedicated online COVID-19 activists, while the most vulnerable children in U.S. society suffered the consequences.
-- Alex Gutentag
We're in the middle of an INFODEMIC and there's no cure in sight as "authoritative" sources are full of medical misinformation.
The worst part of the pandemic is not the virus, but the misinformation coming from the WHO, CDC, FDA and [US President's] Regime. The regurgitation of haphazard guessing and conspiracy theories based on zero science has created the most dangerous kind of pandemic – an infodemic.
Then came the mad, mad rush to get "vaccinated" with unapproved, unsafe, ineffective "clot shot" jabs that the CDC assured with their favorite infodemic lie were "safe and effective". Everyone was told if the majority of Americans just got these injections, the COVID "curve" would be flattened. Sure.
Then the CDC and FDA goons lied some more when that misinformation got exposed, and said, well, the "vaccines" won't stop anyone from getting the virus, and they won't stop anyone from spreading the virus, but they'll stop you from catching a bad case of the virus. Another misinformation fear-and-loathing propaganda campaign spread across all MSM [mainstream media], the most contagious and dangerous infodemic ever "released".
-- S.D. Wells
Leaving vaccine mandates and travel restrictions in place is embarrassing.
There are no good reasons to continue to discriminate against the unvaccinated minority.
Let's remember that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was brought in by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the father of our current prime minister, to enshrine the rights of minorities. He feared the majority couldn't be trusted to protect the rights of minorities — rights he fiercely defended. I bet he wasn't imagining it would be his own son against whom the minority needed such protections.
It is now clear that the continued imposition of these outdated restrictions is nothing more than punitive over bruised egos from the trucker protest.
-- Ashley Hughes
In other words, the variant-specific booster does nothing to solve the fundamental problem with the mRNA shots - that the supra-natural levels of antibodies they produce fade almost immediately, while they hamper broader immune responses.
-- Alex Berenson
The political virus which migrated from the Middle Kingdom alongside COVID-19 eroded governments’ capacity to tell the truth. No matter how pure the intention, governments have been telling their citizens things that are simply not true for quite some time now. The consequences of that will long outlast the pandemic.
Competing and contrasting explanation, rationalizations and justifications offered, depending on what the policy du jour was. It would have been refreshing for a minister or public health official simply to have admitted that they were, in exceedingly difficult circumstances, uncertain of the best option, or were following their gut, or taking the path of least resistance, or just doing what everyone else was doing. But no, it was always "the science", even if the science seemed to conveniently change as politically needed.
-- Raymond J. de Souza
The best way to be 'controversial' these days is to actually tell the truth. People have grown so accustomed to lies that honesty is deemed radical. Some people get offended if you even seek the truth. You’re not supposed to ask any questions, do any research, nor have any real conversations. What happened?
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.
-- Isaac Asimov
Sweden, USA, Germany, UK etc. In all these nations, for the last 2 years, there has been zero, not one death of a healthy child who has been COVID infecte4d, not one! There is no study, nowhere, that can show a benefit of the COVID vaccines for children, not one study. No risk benefit can show any net benefit ... none.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is because people are getting a toxin in their body that's inflaming their heart. If you look around the world, a couple of athletes per month used to die on the football field or on the soccer pitch. Now we're getting hundreds each month dying. Why? Is there something new in humanity? You bet there is: a toxic lipid nanoparticle and a toxic modified RNA that doesn't shut off. It's insanity to keep pushing the most deadly, dangerous medical product ever allowed to persist in humanity.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
Final peer-reviewed Swedish study in the Lancet confirms the early finding from last year, that Vaccine Efficacy (VE) drops into negative territory 7-9 Months after vaccination. This means the vaccine is actively contributing to more infections, and must be immediately stopped for mass vaccinations.
-- Ben [somebody]
The only thing mutating are their lies.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Those who get vaccinated to get their freedom back have already lost it.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
More and more people are talking a stand and pushing back against the lies. Courage is contagious.
For more than 2 years I've argued that mask mandates are contrary to the science and the evidence - and most likely counterproductive.
For that I’ve been abused, slandered & defamed, censored & cancelled. No debate was allowed.
The facts are that mask mandates were only ever about spreading fear - to help sell the poisonous vaccines - a stupidity peddled by idiot politicians. Mask mandates were a farce from start.
-- Craig Kelly
The mandate is appalling, unnecessary, completely discriminatory and not based on any scientific evidence.
-- Stephen Byron, Canberra Australia Airport CEO
What have the COVID-vaccine pedlars done to humanity? We abandoned the tried & tested principles developed over centuries:
. Freedom of speech
. Free and informed consent
. The precautionary principle
. The sanctity of the doctor/patient relationship
. Fundamental human rights
All because the authoritarian technocrats thought they were 'more evolved' and were smarter.
And we had a weak & cowardly generation of politicians that wouldn't take on the groupthink.
-- Craig Kelly
2020-2022 The Great Instruction. A period in which those who claimed to 'love science' had to be instructed on how evidence, soundness, logical calculus, and inference worked - so that they could differentiate propaganda from science.
-- pseudonym EthicalSkeptic
In Sweden, where schools stayed open, there was no learning loss. & guess what, the teachers didn't all die & the outcomes were better, not worse, than the US overall. Those who fought to keep schools closed owe kids here a giant apology. & a promise not to do this again.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Big tech restrictions on covid policy speech are the moral equivalent of book burning.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health should not be in the business of suppressing heresy. It should persuade with honesty, not coerce by censorship and the noble lie.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
After overseeing the worst public health fiasco in history, pushing school closures, ignoring collateral damage and natural immunity, not properly protecting the elderly, etc, it is perturbing that [the USA's public health figurehead] is still in charge of NIAID.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Friendly reminder that the loudest, most repetitive voice does not make it a real or truthful one.
-- Dr. Steph Young
Listening to the diverse and debilitating experiences of the many people affected with unexplained post vaccine symptoms, one cannot help but feel furious at those who have unleashed on us (and promoted and coerced and blackmailed us to take) these untested and unsafe experimental injections – and, incredibly, continue to do so!
There is a mountain of evidence, including the testimonies of so many who have been harmed, to show that these injections are not fit for purpose: they do not work, they are not safe, they systematically destroy our immune system.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
There was never any scientific justification for vaccine mandates. It's all about politics and [Canadian Prime Minister]'s nastiness and vindictiveness towards those who want to keep control of their lives.
-- Maxime Bernier
I have been asked often how long I think the spike protein will be produced following vaccination. I wish I knew. Since the mRNA getting injected has been extensively modified to prevent it being degraded and to keep its translation into spikes locked in the "on" position, it is anyone's guess how long it might continue.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
For a society that idolizes science so much, standards seem to be non-existent when it comes to COVID science.
-- Joe Martino
People don't buy into the narrative because they think it's accurate or because they think it's scientific or something. No. Unconsciously, the real reason why they buy into the narrative is always because it leads to this new social bond. Because it frees them from their anxiety; because it enables them to direct their frustration and aggression at something.
-- Mattias Desmet, Professor
Even more troubling, if that is possible, is their widespread failure to recognize and harshly condemn what has been, in effect, the staging of a massive new version of the Milgram experiment in our time, wherein government officials, the media and medical experts actively and quite blithely encouraged the infliction of pain upon those citizens who were simply uncomfortable with being forced to take highly experimental drugs with no proven track record or safety history.
-- Thomas Harrington
No one of any consequence has acknowledged, never mind apologized for the injustice done to the millions of people — I’ll say that again millions of people — who lost their livelihoods for their refusal to take an experimental drug whose performance has completely betrayed all the "do-it-because-we're-all-in-this-together" arguments that were bullyingly deployed on its behalf.
-- Thomas Harrington
I value honesty. If this product had been introduced as experimental gene therapy, I might have gotten the jab. Instead, we were mis-informed, and in some cases simply lied to, that there was a "vaccine" for the Wuhan virus.
I also value freedom. Take that jab. Don't take the jab. It's up to you. Instead of freedom, we get mandates. [Political leaders] force untested experimental gene therapy on the American people, all the while lying that it is a vaccine. There is no sector of hell that is too hot for these people.
-- Mark Glenn
They are purposefully missing the overall picture and slyly holding on to the pretext that will invite the insanity back at any point - that masks “work” to stop or curb the spread of highly contagious respiratory viruses.
They don’t, obviously, but their rigid belief system is not surprising. Belief in the power and efficacy of face masks has become a de facto religion to these cultist nutjobs, and they’re just itching for the next opportunity to impose their ‘faith’ on the rest of us.
Indeed, the unabashed insistence that masks ‘work’ has become one of the most insane and evil lies in all of human history. Not only did it create a false sense of security that doubtless led to more infections than would otherwise had occurred, it also led to years of speech and developmental delays in children, untold disruptions of societal cohesion, millions of tons of useless and pointless medical waste in our oceans and landfills, massive psychological issues in countless people who still mask-up in the absurdest of places and situations to this day, and even actual medical harms that are just being uncovered. All while doing absolutely nothing towards their intended purpose. If there has been a worse trade-off, I’d love to see it.
-- Scott Morefield
This is a dangerous product with no track record being used willy-nilly on humanity for a virus that no longer exists … does nothing but cause increased disease in those who now get additional series of shots.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
In the beginning of the Corona crisis, back in February 2020, I started to study the statistics on the mortality rates of the virus,
the infection fatality rates, the case fatality rate and so on, and immediately, I got the impression — and with me, several worldfamous statisticians, such as John Ioannidis of Stanford, for instance — that the statistics and mathematical models used dramatically overrated the danger of the virus.
Immediately, I wrote an opinion paper trying to bring some of the mistakes to people’s attention. But, I noticed immediately
that people just didn’t want to know. It was as if they didn’t see even the most blatant mistakes at the level of the statistics that
were used. People just were not capable of seeing it.
-- Professor Mattias Desmet
When someone is in the grip of a process of mass formation, he becomes radically willing to sacrifice all his individual interest. Once people are in the grip of a process of mass formation, they typically show a tendency of cruelty towards people who do not buy into the narrative, or do not go along with the narrative. They typically do so as if it is an ethical duty.
-- Professor Mattias Desmet
Even while I know the mechanisms at work, I’m still baffled every time it happens. I almost can’t believe what I see. I know someone whose husband died a few days after the vaccine, during his sleep, from a heart attack. And I thought, now she will open her eyes and wake up. Not at all. She just continued in the same fanatic way — even more fanatic — talking about how happy we should be because we have this vaccine. Unbelievable, yes.
-- Professor Mattias Desmet
No parent. No parent in the entire world should vaccinate their kids with any of these COVID vaccines. Period. Full stop. End of story.
-- Steve Kirsch
[Canadian] federal COVD-19 policy continues to lag the science – it doesn’t follow it. The question now is whether the spin doctors, not the medical doctors, are making policy.
-- Dr. Neil Rau, Dr. Martha Fulford, Dr. Pooya Kazemi and Dr. Ari Joffe
You, the Canadian truckers, came along and simply said, 'No. We will not comply.'
And then something happened that is nothing short of a miracle: you organized the protest, which is possibly the biggest protest of our time. The headlights of your trucks became the Light of Hope, which worked its way all throughout the world, touching millions and millions of people, inspiring them to stand up and speak out against their governments.
Even though you, the Canadian freedom truckers, are subject to political persecution and are labeled terrorists, the day will come when your bravery and your determination to fight for freedom will be recognized and you will be granted your rightful place in the history books.
-- Christine Anderson, Member European Parliament
Restrictions had no impact whatsoever on the number or distribution of deaths. If restrictions had mitigated the public health threat then the empirical data would have fallen below the model but it never does. Evidently, there was no benefit in terms of reduced mortality as a result of the restrictions.
-- Joel Smalley
The CDC and MSM call it “vaccine hesitancy” but it’s more about “vaccine science” that shows the COVID-19 gene-mutation jabs are experimental, dangerous and ineffective. It’s not “hesitancy” if the statistics reveal that getting a clot shot is FAR more dangerous to the majority of the population than actually catching the latest coronavirus. It’s not a conspiracy theory that the clot shots are experimental at best, with “emergency use only” approvals and fraudulent clinical trials that reveal commonplace nightmarish side effects and adverse events.
Just because mainstream (fake news) media doesn’t cover the facts does not mean they are not happening all around us. When perfectly healthy athletes, pilots and military members drop dead from blood clots, myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes, just days or weeks after getting injected with gene therapy COVID-19 shots, there is valid reason to be very concerned.
-- online site Natural News
Despite a preponderance of the evidence proving COVID to be a non-event for most of us, over 1 million people have fallen foul to vaccine injury. This should be enough to stop most people in their tracks. It hasn’t.
Many emerge from near death experience even more pontifical than before, denouncing the rest of us for not joining in this mortal game of Russian Roulette.
There can be no avoiding these people. The ones acting in good conscience lost to the morally virtuous super spreaders of hyperbole.
They will believe whatever they hear and do whatever they’re told. They have been groomed by something far more powerful than the truth, called ‘the science,’ and they will follow ‘it’ right off the edge of a cliff.
This unholy mess works because a new ideology has swept across the moral fabric. Unless you’re taking an experimental medical intervention fraught with danger, you’re dancing on the graves of all those who have died.
Ridding people with guilt takes away their power, and blind obedience to authority does the rest, as Milgram discovered in his landmark experiment.
-- Dustin Broadbery
There is a long history of people’s superstitions being manipulated into performing irrational acts. Things are not so different today. People hold themselves prisoner inside their own homes. They risk the lives of their own children to protect those already on their deathbed. They do this for a disease which has had zero impact on overall mortality in 2021. To say that it’s a mad, mad world, doesn’t do it justice.
-- Dustin Broadbery
The largest cult in the world is the Branch Covidians. After all, have you ever seen so many people in blind obedience? I’ve not seen anything like it. It’s remarkable.
-- Jeremy Nell
We’ve got [US] government agencies guessing, hoping, or lying with the information they’re presenting to the American people.
-- Jim Jordan, United States Senator
Uh oh. Risk benefit of the vaccines is NEGATIVE according to a new paper from UCLA, Stanford, others. Whoops!
-- Steve Kirsch
Remember, if someone young and healthy dies unexpectedly, it is improper to ask about their vaccination status. That question is only for important occasions, like entry to restaurants.
-- internet pseudonym Noah
[Vaccine mandates are] unfair, unscientific bullying.
-- Pierre Poilievre
1 The infection fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 is 0.1 – 0.3%, which is not significantly different from some seasonal influenza epidemics.
2 Based on the peer-reviewed articles, at least 30 to 50% of the population has prior cross-immunity.
3 SARS-CoV-2 does discriminate. “The lethality of this virus, as is common with respiratory viruses, is 1000X less in young, healthy people than in elderly people with multiple comorbidities.”
4 Asymptomatic transmission is the “central conceptual deceit” used to “underscore almost every intrusion: masking, mass testing, lockdowns, border restrictions, school closures, even vaccine passports.”
5 PCR test is “the central operational deceit.”
6 Neither cloth nor surgical masks prevent respiratory virus transmission.
7 Lockdown is “epidemiologically irrelevant” and never works. “Only “stay home if you’re sick” works.“
8 “Covid-19 is the most treatable respiratory viral illness ever”. Safe and effective early treatments are available.
9 Based on the peer-reviewed articles, very few clinically significant reinfections of SARS-Cov-2 have ever been confirmed.
10 SARS-CoV-2 mutates slowly, and no variant is even close to escaping naturally-acquired immunity. However, there is the possibility that the so-called vaccines prevent the establishment of immune memory, leading to the repeated infections, which would be a form of acquired immune deficiency.
11 Safety is the top priority in a public health mass intervention, even more than effectiveness. “It was NEVER appropriate to attempt to “end the pandemic” with a novel technology vaccine.”
12 The four gene-based “vaccines” are toxic. The basic rules of selecting vaccine candidates are: 1) the agent has no inherent biological action (non-toxic); 2) the agent should be the genetically most stable part of the virus; 3) the agent should be most different from human proteins. Spike protein as the vaccine does not fit any of the above criteria.
-- Dr. Michael Yeadon
Snake oil. Virtually every single adult in Portugal has taken at least two doses of this “miracle cure” COVID vaccine, with the vast majority “boosted” as well. Yet this month, the most vaxxed country in Europe has consistently reported its worst outcomes.
-- Jordan Schachtel
Portugal EU country highest vaccination rate; today has the most new Covid-19 cases; with most new daily deaths per million inhabitants; the COVID injection did not work, never worked, killing people.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
The cure was vastly worse than the disease. It feels like ... despair: the continued psychological despair that comes with knowing that your government hit the panic button and ever since has lied to you at every turn, caused massive chaos and destruction amongst your community and family at large, turned your friends and relatives against one another, made your workplace into a Maoist, health authoritarian hellscape, caused your best friend to lose his job, but perhaps worst of all put our youngest citizens out to pasture and destroyed many young prospects.
If we don’t keep speaking out about the horrors that the “public health” mafia, liberal elite, and mainstream scientific narrative has wrought
upon us, we will continue down a path toward tyranny of a tiny coterie of “experts” who have perhaps intentionally led us into a miasma of destroyed human lives and societies.
-- Seth Smith
This study provides strong evidence of an increased risk of myocarditis and of pericarditis in the week following vaccination against Covid-19 with mRNA vaccines in both males and females.
-- Stéphane Le Vu, Marion Bertrand, Marie-Joelle Jabagi, Jérémie Botton, Jérôme Drouin, Bérangère Baricault, Alain Weill, Rosemary Dray-Spira & Mahmoud Zureik
By polarizing the issue, by making it a question of coercion, they’ve taken a group of people and lock them down as being opposed to vaccines because they don’t want to be forced. I think that’s a tragic error.
-- Dr. Richard Schabas, former Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario
Politicians have been all-too-happy to embrace the rhetorical dodge of “following the science”. By pinning the responsibility for their decisions on “the science”, they avoid having to explain the true reasoning, which might open them up to criticism and debate. It is easier to present a policy as the only option, resulting from the unassailable authority of science instead of the sum of numerous subjective considerations, each one a new opening for attack.
“Follow the science” is a slogan, not a strategy.
-- Jean-Paul Soucy
For those who retained any critical thinking skills, people who got vaxxed must be feeling pretty stupid by now.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Mystery heart attacks, mystery strokes, mystery cardiac arrest in children, mystery teens dying “suddenly” and “unexpectedly” in their sleep, mystery athletes dropping dead playing high school football, mystery facial paralysis, mystery children with hepatitis, it’s all a mystery.
-- Dr. James Olsson
Two years ago, we uncritically accepted unreliable mathematical models that predicted this kind of microbiological apocalypse. The world panicked and embraced the whole series of draconian measures of dubious effectiveness and enormous, enormous cost. We did all this without having any clear idea of why we were doing it.
We’ve used fear as an agent of public policy, which is totally anathema to good risk communication, totally anathema to the principles of public health. Now, we’re at a situation where we’ve got these enormous sunk costs, sunk costs of reputation, of politics, that make it so hard to change, so hard for many people to have to admit that what they did was wrong, was misguided, led us essentially nowhere.
-- Dr. Richard Schabas, former Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario
COVID masks never ever worked, harmed populations, I published massive reviews; masks are pure utter garbage and junk.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
It is a 'pandemic of the VACCINATED', we told you this! Geert Vanden Bosche said this, Mike Yeadon said this, I, Dr. Paul Alexander said this.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
New South Wales data are statistically analysed to assess whether the experimental COVID-19 injections have been effective as vaccines in reducing infection, severe disease, and death in the NSW epidemic. The NSW data show that the experimental COVID-19 injections did not function as vaccines, because they did not decrease, but increase, infection, severe disease and death. Therefore, COVID-19 vaccination mandates cannot be reasonably enforced with the experimental COVID-19 injections which do not function as effective vaccines.
-- Wilson Sy
What the hell have they done? How were they allowed to inject this stuff into pregnant women when they didn’t know the long term safety data?
We [are] now seeing unprecedented declines in births and increases in deaths following mass population-wide injection with this experimental agent being reported from around the world.
And yet, they still want to push on and inject this stuff into babies - even though the evidence now demonstrates those injected more likely to contract Covid?
We are really looking at the possibility of the greatest disaster in human history.
-- Craig Kelly
There are now a thousand papers published on the spike protein and the vaccines. A thousand that deal with vaccine injuries and they’re well characterized. And the FDA agrees: the vaccines cause blood clots. The vaccines cause heart damage. The vaccines cause neurologic damage. They also cause well-characterized immunologic and hematologic system damage.
This is in the peer reviewed literature. This is not equivocal. This is not a subject of controversy or debate. It's in our literature.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
The farce is becoming apparent, even if the media isn't letting that be known.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
Every Western Nation jumped all over the opportunity to force unethical, unsubstantiated, and likely unlawful mandates upon entire societies. They re-established apartheid under the guise of health. As politicos scream for more power of control over people based on “science”, we have collectively asked again and again, what “science” exactly is being used by the current political establishment like a holy weapon? They seem utterly oblivious or willfully ignorant in their brainwashed frenzy. We have to ask, what does the body count have to be before we stop?
-- editorial on yournews
It was all a lie! A scam, you will come to learn the last 2.5 years of your life, our lives were taken away for no sound reason, a lie, a fraud of COVID response, lockdown lunacy, the fraud injections. The lockdowns, school closures, business closures, mask mandates, the PCR test, asymptomatic spread, equal risk, no early treatment, the COVID gene injection; all, all were lies! Did not need happen!
The tragedy is that they have taken a non-issue with COVID and now with these fake ineffective, unsafe, non-neutralizing vaccines, are driving the virus into more infectious and potentially lethal variants, making this now a potentially catastrophic situation.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
We are all free to believe whatever we wish. What we are not free to do is compel others to believe the same thing, to silence those who disagree with us or to force others to deny reality.
-- Maya Forstater
The social illness I speak of was not Covid per se, but our response to it. It [Covid] wasn’t nothing, but the response was far out of proportion to the severity. I will call the illness pandemania — a social, psychological, and political derangement that caused much more harm than the disease itself, and continues to do so. There is a profound asymmetry between the two sides. One side experienced ostracism, censorship, cancellation, loss of jobs, loss of licenses, and exclusion from public spaces, while the other did not. As anyone in an abusive relationship can confirm, the perpetrator’s apology is no guarantee that the abuse won’t happen again.
-- Charles Eisenstein
We never heard of 'fact checkers' on social media until people started posting truth.
-- Derek Sloan
A society that punishes people who tell the truth, and rewards those who lie, is not sustainable in the long term.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Stop acting like COVID is far worse that a lot of other things.
-- Chris Bassitt
There is no such thing as a 'breakthrough case'. Viruses always mutate. It's just a failed product.
There is no such thing as unvaccinated. The proper term is: normal people just living their life.
There is no such thing as a 'booster'. It's just another dose of a failed product.
-- pseudonym Utobian
Half of society: official sources and the government haven't told me that the official sources and the government are corrupt, so I don't believe you.
-- Daniel Alexander
When scientific disputes arise, the ultimate arbiter is not expert authority or common sense but experimental evidence, guided by theory.
-- Tom Siegfried
Can you imagine: first people were being forced to get a vaccination, to only then find out that it might actually be the dumbest thing they ever did.
-- Christine Anderson, Member of European Parliament
Canada having a hard time declaring the mass mandated program a failure. No reductions in hospitalizations and deaths. Overall rates down given milder strains, but cases and hospitalizations embarrassingly doubled, tripled - suggesting no protection.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
The evidence globally is that compulsory masks mandates are at best useless and may even be counterproductive.
Likewise, the data is now clear that those that are vaccine-free are less likely to have Covid and less likely to transit it to others.
If anything, the data is now clear that the vaccine-free are less of a risk of having Covid than those injected multiple times.
-- Craig Kelly
[Injection maker] knew ... that their experimental genetic agent had caused ... injuries and ... deaths.
The product should have been immediately pulled from the market. But they continued to lie, continuing to claim 'safe & effective'.
This is nothing other than criminal fraud. Millions around the world relied upon [injection maker's] representation of 'safe & effective' to line up to be injected - now many are injured and dead. [Injection maker's] fraud was aided and abetted by the politicians and the media.
Those that hid this data and failed to act when they knew, belong in orange jump suits behind bars.
-- Craig Kelly
At the time I imagined the fact that the mRNA shots were failing so fast would lead the White House and public health authorities to reconsider their plans to press them on the world. And maybe start to investigate what was going wrong with this rushed and barely tested biotechnology. Silly me! Instead, the vaccinators went the other way. They doubled down.
-- Alex Berenson
Governments and media outlets dropped their efforts to persuade unvaccinated people to take the shots voluntarily. Instead they began a coordinated worldwide effort to demonize the unvaccinated and press or flat-out force them to take the shots. The hatred - no other word will do, really - that underlay this effort cannot be ignored. Nor can its importance. Last year’s efforts at vaccine coercion were the most serious effort to discriminate legally in the United States since the end of legal racial segregation in the South, and it marked a stunning reversal of two generations of efforts to expand civil rights in the United States and Europe.
-- Alex Berenson
It never made sense for such a high survival rate disease as to why it went from offering, to bribery, to threats to get an ineffective jab … and it still doesn’t.
-- Joe Cosentino
'The Science' is not an amorphous, godlike truth, unlike what we've all been taught to believe. Being pro-science means looking at data objectively. Anyone telling you to 'trust' is probably a bad actor.
-- site: Commie Gibberish of the Day
The shots are ostensibly to prevent severe disease, which is exactly what natural immunity does.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
So much basic scientific data and so many best practices and ethical standards in public health were abandoned during the Covid pandemic, it would be difficult to list them all.
I want to know why real science got thrown out as misinformation, propaganda turned into absolute truth, the free press morphed into a government mouthpiece, and supposedly liberal and scientific institutions abandoned ethical standards and critical though to impose zero-evidence, zero-Covid authoritarian lockdowns and mandates.
The toxic confluence of panic, politics and propaganda worked like an anti-truth potion to preclude even the possibility that someone would think, let alone publicize, anything suggestion it wasn't as bad as everyone said it was.
-- Debbie Lerman
These so-called "experts" ... previously claimed the experimental injections were "effective" - now that the evidence is, and they can no longer hide the fact that they have deceived the public - they are saying the injections are "not enough". With the level of dishonesty and malfeasance they have been involved in, they'd rather see people hospitalised and die than admit they were hopelessly wrong.
-- Craig Kelly
I know all sane rational people want to believe that this is over, but there's a whole army of cult Covidians, and a phalanx of control freak technocrats,
who are waiting for autumn in feverish anticipation at the prospect of bringing it all back.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Now it is clear that there is ZERO benefit of these vaccines and ONLY risk.
-- Dr. Lynn Flynn
The ones who are getting infected again and again and again … or have chronic infections, are the ones that are highly jabbed. That’s what’s going on; it’s called immune imprinting. And what the government has bought [more injections], is the perfect vaccine combination to cause this to get even worse.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
I am not being hyperbolic when I say that I am beginning to think that medical professionals and members of government are going to need to start going to jail for what they have done.
-- David Freiheit
Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?
-- some unattributed nurse in Ontario
Since these injections do not prevent infection or transmission, there's no PUBLIC HEALTH argument for forcing people to accept them.
Assume for a moment [American health person] is telling the truth about what these products do do: reduce the severity of disease, leading to reduced hospitalisation & death.
Good for you, if you decide to get jabbed. But it does not make you safer to be around.
At very most, the only argument the authorities can make is it reduces your already low chances of severe illness. So take them if you want.
Makes absolutely no difference to me if you're "vaccinated", and it would make absolutely no difference to you if I'm injected or not injected.
This is not a subtle point, it's completely fundamental.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
To state that masking is a 'tried and tested measure' is pure propaganda and indoctrination. The evidence is strongly against the efficacy of masking.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
COVID infections and cases ... we see it's rising; why? It is the COVID vaccine, stupid, NOT virus. It is the vaccine that is causing this rise. The non-neutralizing vaccinal antibodies are placing sub-optimal population immune pressure (due to mass vaccination across all age-groups) on the spike antigen and driving infectious variants.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
The Insufferable Arrogance of the Constantly Wrong. The media, and the people who work in and around it, the Blue Checks of Twitter, have upped the ante over the past few years regarding how far they are willing to go to enforce various preferred narratives. You will find absolutely hysterical narrative pushing up front followed by retractions, corrections, and outright denials as reality became undeniable.
In the meanwhile, our civilization was ripped apart, our citizens were gaslit and impoverished, and in countries across the Western world, innocent people were removed from polite society, branded as lepers, and fired from their jobs.
Why? Because there is one story that just won't die and for which no corrections have been issued — the shibboleth that vaccination can prevent infection, transmission, and help "end" COVID.
The examples are legion. Blue Checks, Medical Blue Checks, Times Columnists, Radio Jocks, Presidents, and Prime Ministers have all espoused misinformation and/or hate speech regarding vaccination status. But they are all given intellectual cover by the official reporting of the fourth estate. Even in the face of all the evidence that there is no epidemiological basis for discrimination, our intellectual betters in the legacy media press onward the canard.
-- Clayton Fox
Why are we even doing clinical trials if when you get a negative result showing it has no benefit, they're approving it anyway? You're making a mockery of the process. This is what people in the [US] agencies are very frustrated about. This is why they're leaving.
-- Dr. Marty Makary
My freedom doesn't end where your neurosis begins.
-- Dr. Simon
How bad does it have to get before these incompetent fools admit they were wrong, and follow the science and the evidence...? Would they rather people die than admit they were wrong?
-- Craig Kelly
Shame on those superstitious Covid cultists that are demanding children wear masks in schools.
-- Craig Kelly
This vaccine is extremely dangerous, is not safe and effective and is potentially fatal. The evidence doesn’t support its use in children, in babies, in pregnant women and in anybody. It is a new technology that has not even sufficiently passed the animal studies on safety.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized.
-- Vinay Prased, Jeffrey Flier
The pandemic fiasco will be used to discredit science, but the problem was a lack of scientific thinking. True enlightened science with open minds and open discourse was replaced by dogmatic "follow the science" that is the very opposite of science.
-- Jay Bhattacharya
It's been nearly 3 yrs since this scamdemic started. Still trying to punish unjabbed. How's that going ... more jabbed in hospital and dying.
-- some commenter
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
-- James Madison
The highly inoculated are the ones at most risk for clinical COVID, hospitalization and death with these escape mutant variants, and they are the ones breeding the next round of escape mutants.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
No, mRNA Covid vaccines do not offer long-term protection from serious illness. An official government report from the Netherlands earlier this month has the truth. Data from the Dutch government show the opposite - after seven months they substantially RAISE the risk of hospitalization and intensive care. Negative vaccine effectiveness, it’s a thing. A very bad thing.
mRNA vaccine advocates have one final defense against the failure of their billion-person experiment. "Okay, the shots won’t stop you from getting Covid. Or spreading it. Or having symptoms. But they will stop you from getting very sick, and that protection lasts long after they stop working against infection."
Only it doesn’t.
The results could not be clearer, or grimmer.
The mRNA vaccines fail within a few months and then begin to raise the risk of serious outcomes.
-- Alex Berenson
It is bazarro that anyone can advocate masks outside the context of sarcasm.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
It’s not a "vaccine". It doesn't prevent contracting or transmitting the virus. If everyone who got the chickenpox vaccine still got chickenpox, no one would call it "effective". And they certainly would not predicate policy, let alone civil rights, on submitting to an ineffective medical procedure. The only thing left to determine now is whether or not it is in fact safe. Oh I've done the research. And the jury is out on whether or not it prevents "serious illness". What it does do is cause myocarditis in 1 in 5000 healthy young people.
-- David Freiheit
Analysis of official NSW Health data now shows we have a pandemic of the Quadruple vaxed. Those that have lined up to be jabbed 4 times in NSW (New South Wales) have the highest rates of Covid hospitalisations and ICU admissions. In a sane world, this madness would end tomorrow.
-- Craig Kelly
Hysteria about any and all vaccine criticism ... has reached a fever pitch during the pandemic. In the current social and political environment, you can disparage and heap scorn on products that go through the FDA approval process, if they are called pharmaceuticals or devices, but if you dare critique a vaccine you're done - good night, and good luck.
Common standards of scientific discourse - data transparency, questioning of efficacy and safety or side effects - simply don't apply to products if they are called vaccines. Because vaccines are magic.
-- Paul D. Thacker
All risk, no reward, and the added bonus of 13 times the likelihood of getting Covid. It gets old. We share what we are seeing, yet people line up, roll up their sleeves and keep getting them, and now their kids too! The media has everyone brainwashed!
-- Dr. Lynn Flynn
Given that health authorities now agree the shots do not stop infection ... the risk-benefit profile is absurd. Any other therapeutic would already have been pulled from the market or had its use severely restricted.
At a minimum the mRNA shots should be given a black-box warning and their use restricted to people over 70 and those with severe comorbidities. And a prescription should be required, just as it is for any potentially risky therapeutic with a limited duration of effectiveness.
Please don't compare these to the flu shot. At this point they are even LESS effective and far more dangerous. And as they have not a prayer of inducing herd immunity their risks and benefits should be managed individually, ie by prescription.
-- Alex Berenson
Masks are hazardous and don't work. This has been known for decades.
They claimed that masks don't work and are potentialy harmful until 2020 and then claimed the exact opposite since March 2020 to gaslight and deceive the general public.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Among people around the age of 80, who've been double vaccinated, the per capita rate of medical incidences, including hospitalizations or death, is nearly twice as high as the rate of serious incidents for the unvaccinated. This is 180 days after vaccination. What is that, and why is no one interested? … Also showing negative vaccine efficacy for all ages after 8 months. This is … a profound indictment - maybe the greatest indictment in our lifetimes - of our leaders. Their recklessness, their pigheadedness, their dishonesty.
-- Tucker Carlson
No more Big Bird videos saying it's safe and effective. No more Elmo videos saying it's safe and effective. No more CDC directors and FDA directors appearing on TV for children saying it's safe and effective. No more saying it's a vaccine, when it ain't.
The third goal is to have a meaningful, robust evidentiary hearing, with the ultimate objective being to stop the FDA from lying to the world, and ideally stop the FDA from authorizing and approving drugs that haven't met their own methods and mechanisms for doing so.
-- Robert Barnes
The canary in the mineshaft is telling us that children are dying in the first six months after shots. The numbers don't lie. One group is 82 times more likely to die than the other, that's the bad group to be in.
-- Dr. Chris Shoemaker
Sasha Latypova ... looked procedurally at the dossiers filed by [US drug company] and [US drug company] in relation to their alleged covid19 vaccines. By procedural, she means she looked at whether or not they'd completed all the studies reasonably required. She didn't assess the actual findings, something I'm more qualified to do. She didn't need to, because (in her words) they avoided discovering adverse findings by the simple method of not conducting the studies.
You could drive a tank through the gaps in these dossiers. Not only are there large numbers of essential, required studies MISSING, but the majority of those conducted (in the case of the [US drug company] product) didn't even use the clinical material. In other words, many studies weren't even attempted, and very few studies even examined the final product. These are by far the worst, criminally negligent dossiers I've ever seen, for any product, filed with any regulator.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
Our institutions have been so thoroughly corrupted and our values so comprehensively inverted that the term 'Public Health' now elicits in many people feelings of foreboding and dread.
-- pseudonym Morgoth
To whom this may concern:
Among all the vaccines have known in my life (diphtheria, tetanus, measles, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis, meningitis and tuberculosis as well as flu and pneumonia vaccines), I have never seen a vaccine that forced me to wear a mask and maintain my social distance, even when fully vaccinated. I had never heard of a vaccine that spreads the virus even after vaccination. I had never heard of rewards, discounts, and incentives to get vaccinated. I never saw discrimination for those who didn't accept vaccination, no one would try to make you feel like a bad person. I have never seen a vaccine that threatens the relationship between family, colleagues and friends. I have never seen a vaccine used to threaten livelihoods, work or school, one that would allow a 12-year-old to override parental consent. Including all the vaccines I listed above, I have never seen a vaccine like this one, which discriminates, divides and judges society. It's a powerful vaccine. It does all these things except IMMUNIZE! If, fully vaccinated, we still need a booster dose, still need to get a negative test, still need to wear a mask and still wind up in the hospital, it is time for us to admit that we've been completely deceived. Thank you for your time, Christine
-- full attribution and veracity unknown
BEWARE OF THE BOOSTED. Remember when the disgraced former NSW Premier ... told everyone I don't want to be near any unvaccinated person. This shameful piece of superstitious, unscientific hate-speech, that divided families will see [her] condemned by history - for at the time there was zero evidence that the vaccine-free were more likely to spread Covid than those that had lined up to be injected. However now the evidence shows the exact opposite - it is the boosted that pose a greater risk of not only having Covid, but also spreading it.
-- Craig Kelly
Loss of lifetime. Hypertension -> 5 years. Diabetes -> 6 years. Obesity -> 10 years. Covid-19 -> 0 years.
This says it all. This respiratory virus doesn't reduce one's lifetime. Instead the measures that were implemented to reduce the spread of Covid had a contrary effect.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
All risk, no reward, and the added bonus of 13 times the likelihood of getting Covid. It gets old. We share what we are seeing, yet people line up, roll up their sleeves and keep getting them, and now their kids too! The media has everyone brainwashed!
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
CDC data. Lockdowns did nothing. All harm, no benefit.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Repeated shots ... they too fail, and each additional shot appears to do less and fail more quickly. Worst of all, because the shots cause recipients to produce antibodies to the original coronavirus rather than [current strain's] mutated spike, vaccinated people now have a higher risk of ... infection - which means they have a higher risk of hospitalization or death.
Buckle up.
-- Alex Berenson
They’ve created a generation of hypochondriac cult members. You’ve still got weirdos out there holding their breath while they adjust it, literally frightened of breathing without their face nappy. I still see people wearing masks outside in boiling hot summer temperatures. They’re like Japanese hold-outs still fighting the war years later.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
One of the basic tenets of modern medicine is the right to informed consent, but all that seemed to go out the window as COVID-19 took hold around the world and vaccine companies saw huge opportunities to profit.
It's now safe to say the disease has been completely exploited, and its effects can be felt in nearly every aspect of daily life, whether you have personally contracted the virus or not. There's been widespread deception by governments, public health officers, social media platforms and the mass media, and people have lost freedoms at every turn for not complying with masking and vaccine mandates or simply voicing their opinions about the situation.
-- site Natural News
The media are flooding us with health-related information 24/7. But none of it actually addresses our natural immune system. Instead of receiving advice on how to improve our physical and mental health, we're witnessing a never-ending vaccine infomercial based on fear.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
The reality of mRNA jab failure is deeply unpleasant for governments and health bureaucrats.
They have spent the last 18 months touting and sometimes mandating these shots, with the active assistance of legacy and social media outlets. In the last couple of months, as the failure has become increasingly apparent, they have taken steps to cushion the blow:
Pushing boosters, which temporarily hide the problem - at a long-term cost that remains unclear;
Clamping down on data about hospitalizations and deaths among vaccinated people they once readily provided.
-- Alex Berenson
Wherever Covid goes next - and at this point we don't yet know - the mRNA shots will play no role in ending it. They are part of the problem, not the solution.
-- Alex Berenson
Medical consent must be free – not coerced – in order to be valid. Any discrimination against the unvaccinated is economic or social opportunity coercion, precluding the possibility of valid medical consent. The right to free, uncoerced medical consent is not negotiable, under any circumstances, because without it we have no rights at all; every other right can be subverted by medical coercion. Crucially, by accepting any mandated medical treatment we would be acquiescing to the taking away of the right to free medical consent not just from ourselves but from our children and from future generations, and we do not have the right to do this. Acquiescence to medical coercion is always unethical, even if the mandated intervention were a placebo.
-- Michael Kowalik
Vaccines are known to occasionally cause deaths of healthy people. When an employee is required to receive vaccination as a condition of employment, that employee is economically coerced to participate in an activity where some percentage of employees are expected to die ‘in the course of employment’ as a direct result of the mandated activity. This goes against the fundamental principles of medical ethics and workplace safety. It may be objected that infectious pathogens also kill people, but these two categories of deaths are not ethically equivalent. Infection with a pathogen for which there exists a vaccine is not mandated, whereas deaths resulting from mandatory vaccination are mandated deaths, a legalised killing of some people for the prospective benefit of the majority. Critically, any discrimination against the unvaccinated (or a privileged treatment of the vaccinated) amounts to a violation of the right to life, because a small percentage of the targeted population are expected to die as a result of this coercive treatment. By refusing to accept mandated vaccines we take an ethical stance in defence of the right to life.
-- Michael Kowalik
Apart from the fact that social and economic opportunity coercion removes our free choice in this matter, being unvaccinated is fundamentally not a choice; we were born this way. The premise of being 'unvaccinated by choice' is as absurd as 'having two hands by choice'. The right to preserve our innate characteristics without being discriminated against is paramount.
-- Michael Kowalik
I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines.
-- Dr. Deb Birx
A distinctly unhelpful rhetorical device is insisting that some important public debate is over, that your side has won and you don’t even have to say why any more. It's unhelpful when news outlets and others simply assert ... without bothering to present data or arguments.
-- Dr. John Robson
[Two US health authorities] lied to the [US] President. They lied to the world. They knew the Covid injections would not stop the spread.
And our Health Bureaucrats parroted the lies as did the media - all the while those that dared to question their lies were accused of 'spreading misinformation', ridiculed, blacklisted, defamed and censored. And I think of all the people I've met injured and maimed because of their lies, the businesses and lives destroyed by their lies, the families divided and broken, and parents that lost children because of their lies.
-- Craig Kelly
Never was it a pandemic of the UNVACCINATED; CDC & NIH & WHO LIED by placing infections, hospitalizations, deaths up to 14-15 days post jab, into unvaxx bin. Now we have clear indications that it is pandemic of the vaccinated and specifically the BOOSTED.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
Claims like 'trust the science' are actually displays of faith rather than confidence in the scientific method. The scientific method requires a hypothesis and rigorous testing. Science is not trusted, it is tested.
-- Leslyn Lewis
This vaccine campaign will go down as the biggest scandal in medical history. Moreover, it will be known as the biggest crime ever committed on humanity.
-- Christine Anderson, Member of European Parliament
I think there are multiple reasons why some people are still wearing face masks. For a lot of people it's a symptom of a disease, and the disease is fear. And that fear is not from any Chinese lab, but it was cooked up by our own government. Then there are those for whom I think the mask is a badge of some sort of imagined superiority. There were those who swallowed hook, line, and sinker that wearing a mask was a good thing to do. 'GOOD THING' in block capitals. And having been seen to be doing 'the good thing', that proportion of the population won't let that drop. For me the masks were always pointless
at best; harmful to health and well-being at worst. They say it's easier to fool someone than to persuade the same person to accept that they've been fooled. If you bought into the the mask wearing as being something that that had a function, to admit to yourself and to everyone else that it never did ...
-- Neil Oliver
It was inevitable ... that somebody would decide to sound the charge and bring back all of the all of the theater. It has for governments - especially governments with authoritarian fantasies - Covid has been the gift that keeps on giving. I never felt they were likely to give it up lightly. It was always predictable that they would try and retain it. Masks were always the most straightforward and the most obvious sign that could be demanded from people to
show whether or not they were complying. Which team they were on. Are you on 'team good people' who wear masks or on 'team naughty people' who don't.
-- Neil Oliver
If the authorities ever genuinely thought that the masks were about health, then that was for a very brief period. And I'm not sure they ever did in their hearts believe that masks had an impact from a health point of view, ever since that point. It has always and only been about control. It was about muzzling people, isolating people, and splitting people into polarized camps, because the last thing that any authoritarian-minded government wants is a confident, educated, independent population able to make its own decisions and go about its business. And fear is the key; fear has always been the key.
-- Neil Oliver
Progress is a wonderful thing, but it’s only possible with an attitude of open-mindedness that challenges the status quo. Doctors and innovators should be incentivized to pursue and explore new and different approaches. Instead, we are being forced to adopt a group think or risk suffering the wrath of the establishment, or worse, loss of livelihood.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
To be sure, demonstrably false "misinformation" can be dangerous, and a topic worthy of discussion. But with overwhelming evidence to support the statements in question, advocating different courses of action toward COVID-19 is far from misinformation. In fact, the suggestion from the White House that the vaccine lessened [America president’s] symptoms more closely meets the standard for misinformation since it is an impossible standard to prove.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
Have you ever heard of anything like this in your life? This is a tsunami. This is a plague. This is a REAL pandemic. These are all relatively young Americans either suddenly dead, or very ill with the two most common side effects of the Covid vaccine (heart attacks and strokes).
Everything I have warned about on my national radio show since the first day of the vaccine has (sadly) happened. The chickens have come home to roost. The Covid vaccine is dangerous and deadly. It is the biggest disaster and failure in the history of healthcare. It is a nonstop death and injury machine.
-- Wayne Root
Our COVID response was a miserable failure largely because health agencies were not transparent.
-- Ron Johnson, US Senator
The failure of the mRNA shots, after the hype that surrounded them when they were introduced in 2020, is deeply disappointing. The development of new medicines cannot be rushed, as much as we might hope they might. Regulators and ethical scientists must insist on properly designed and run clinical trials before approving any new drug or vaccine.
But the failure of the vaccines is actually less corrosive at this point than the grim refusal by public health authorities, politicians, and the media to admit that failure.
-- Alex Berenson
The problem is this: the relentless denial of an obvious truth from the highest levels of media and government is gasoline for the fire of conspiracy theorists. If they'll lie about the vaccines when everyone can see the vaccines don't work, what else will they lie about? And why did they lie in the first place?
Well, they lied because they wanted Covid to end so badly that they ignored all the obvious problems in the clinical trials. As for what else they'll lie about? I don't know.
Anyway, it would be really nice if the people in charge would admit the truth, the vaccines didn't work as promised.
-- Alex Berenson
Perhaps the most indefensible 'intervention' during the pandemic, school masking has confusingly become the most prominent reoccurring mandate across the country. This is despite the overwhelming amount of data and evidence that's accumulated over the past several years that school masking is completely ineffective. There is simply no justification for continuing to mandate masks in schools. Once again, [Florida governor] has shown that he is head and shoulders above most politicians, correctly realizing that banning school masking is the only way to ensure that kids aren't forced to placate delusional adults.
-- Ian Miller
Blunder for all time to indiscriminately blanket the population with an obsolete Spike antigen from the [virus]. Made it easy for the virus to mutate and easily infect and spread among those who where duped or forced into taking the mandated genetic products.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
From the earliest days of the pandemic, something deep inside me – in my soul, if you will – recoiled from the political and public response to the virus. Nothing about it felt right or strong or true. This was not just an epidemiological crisis, but a societal one, so why were we listening exclusively to some select epidemiologists? Where were the mental health experts? The child development specialists? The historians? The economists? And why were our political leaders encouraging fear rather than calm?
-- Gabrielle Bauer
To everyone who dumped on me for questioning the shutdown of civilization and calling out the damage it inflicted on the young and the poor: you can take your shaming, your scientific posturing, your insufferable moralizing, and stuff it. Every day, new research knocks more air out of your smug pronouncements.
-- Gabrielle Bauer
[There are] dangers [in] turning over public policy and public health recommendations to people who have had their careers exclusively focused on infectious disease. Public health is a balance.
-- Dr. Stefanos Kales
About the intentional suppression of early treatment in order to railroad the mass mandated products on global populations. This plan caused untold suffering and death. History will judge.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It really doesn't bother people that we're socializing little kids to view each other like Schrodinger's diseasebags first and human beings second.
-- Geneve Campbell
During the COVID era, I have learned that a society organized around the avoidance of a single respiratory virus does not care much for what harm it inflicts on the long-term development of children.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
These government health bureaucrats are just pathological liars. They weren't just wrong or mistaken or confused. They intentionally lied about everything; the effectiveness of the vaccine, masks, lockdowns, [drug], demonising early treatment with [drug] and [drug] - everything. And all their lies ensured Big Pharma enjoyed a multi-billion pay day, while inflicting untold misery and death. They were aided and abetted by the sold-out media, and while they lied intentionally and incessantly, they publicly defamed anyone that dared questioned their lies - accusing the truth tellers as spreading misinformation. For the immeasurable harm they caused and the lives they have destroyed, these liars that pushed the toxic experimental Covid vaccines, they all [should be] dressed in orange jump suits and locked up behind bars for the rest of their years.
-- Craig Kelly
No one, under any circumstances, may receive any pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal for either taking or not taking any medicine or injection.
-- The Nuremberg Code
When our [US] CDC director came out and said ... they don't stop transmission of the virus; you transmit it the same. When [Prime Minister] in the UK came out and said the vaccines don't stop anybody from getting COVID or transmitting it. When public officials uttered these conclusions, which were correct ... at that point in time, it didn't matter what one could say ... there was absolutely no scientific support for ever having a large population be encouraged to take these products, let alone being mandated to do so.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Anecdotal evidence mirrored the obvious, and biologically unsurprising, statistical trend, which the media conveniently ignored. The public also lost sight of Covid’s demographically clear risk profile.
Yet, for me and others, the hardest part of the past 28 months has been being surrounded by so many people so deeply out of touch with reality.
I saw all of the Pandemanium dogma as lies. Time has proven me right.
-- Mark Oshinskie
Reported case fatality rates, like the official … rate from the World Health Organization, cause horror - and are meaningless.
-- Prof. John Ioannidis
Masking mandates lack empirical evidence to back their effectiveness, are unenforceable, polarizing, and take a huge toll on the … children.
-- Kathryn Barger, LA County Board of Supervisors
Shame on all of our governments and their unsound, biased, and academically sloppy 'medical experts' who exhibited a depth of cognitive dissonance to any science or evidence that misaligned with their specious edicts and policies.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?".
-- Richard Feynman
Injecting 6 month [old] babies with an experimental mRNA substance (with zero long term safety data) that we know causes them to produce the Wuhan spike protein throughout their bodies, has to be one of the most evil acts ever perpetuated upon humanity.
-- Craig Kelly
Injecting 6 month old babies with covid shots is creating customers for life (assuming they live). We're going to raise a generation of very sick kids.
-- Dr. Chris Shaw
Regime-friendly reporters will scour the earth for every last story supporting government policies, and amplify these meagre items to the point of absurdity; at the same time, they'll do everything possible to ignore or downplay information injurious to their preferred narratives, however significant it might be.
-- internet pseudonym Eugyppius
One of the greatest mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
-- Milton Friedman
You’re right the spike protein is what’s doing it. You’ve just injected in you a roadmap that says start creating this toxic thing that’s going to attack all your organ systems. It’s going to attach itself to the endothelium of your vasculature. And there’s no off switch.
-- Dr. Kelly Victory
Politicians who supported lockdowns, and continue to support compelled vaccination despite all evidence, deserve not only to be voted out of office. They deserve to be criminally prosecuted.
-- David Freiheit
Reminder: lockdowns did absolutely nothing to stop the spread of the virus, but they bankrupted our economy and made millions physically and mentally sicker. Politicians who supported them should be kicked out.
-- Maxime Bernier
A shot that does not prevent carrying, contracting, or transmitting a virus is not a “vaccine” in any realm of reality.
-- David Freiheit
Knowing what I know today, I can definitively say I regret having gotten vaccinated. But I am proud that I stood up for the rights of those who chose not to get vaccinated, and who were ruthlessly demonized and berated for exercising their right to their bodily autonomy.
-- David Freiheit
Mask fascists are just bullies. It’s just this type of conduct that results in other brainwashed masked Covidiots abusing others in public over masks. What is it in the leftist brain that result sin them ignoring the science and evidence and following the superstition when it comes to masks?
-- Craig Kelly
More disappearing Covid vaccine data. Add [Canadian province] to the governments trying to hide the reality that the mRNA jabbed make up the vast majority of Covid hospitalizations and deaths. If at first you don’t succeed, hide the numbers.
-- Alex Berenson
So many have regretted taking it. None of us have regretted not taking it.
-- unknown attribution, on the internet
In the name of a virus, government gave you:
$3,200 of checks
$30,000 of debt
A wrecked economy
Isolation from family
Closed businesses
Shortages
High prices
A vaccine that doesn’t immunize you
Medical tyranny
Dwindling savings due to inflation
And claimed this saved you.
-- Thomas Massie
It is truly shocking how many Canadian “liberals” are in fact remorseless fascist authoritarians.
-- David Freiheit
Vaccination could itself promote infection. Repeated injections of the same antigen, whatever it is (here the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2), at levels that exceed the critical threshold, inevitably lead to a disruption of innate immunity, and to the appearance of potential autoimmune disorders. Thus, for current Covid-19 vaccines, there are at least three good scientific reasons not to give multiple vaccine injections, with the direct and harmful action of the Spike protein on the RAS and innate immunity, the repetition of these injections also disrupting host innate immunity, and the potential harmful effects of some adjuvants, including lipid nanoparticles.
-- Jean-Marc Sabatier
Canada banned Covid unvaccinated people from air travel long after it was clear both that airplanes were not a major transmission vector for Covid and that vaccines did nothing to stop transmission. Hard not to see that policy as anything other than punitive, a way to hurt people who had chosen not to be jabbed. The response to the trucker protests this winter was similarly over-the-top.
And the viciousness didn't stop with the government. As the stories make clear, employers and families ostracized anyone who spoke out or wouldn't follow the rules.
-- Alex Berenson
An interesting article ... refutes the talking point claim that COVID vaccines saved 20 million plus, which is a completely made up statistic. Not only have they done harm, it is only getting started. That evidence is unfolding daily.
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
Apologize. Pick up the phone and call everyone you fired over unethical, ineffective, unscientific vaccine mandates. Ask them to come back. Then apologize to everyone who is still at work but felt coerced.
-- Matt Strauss, MD
Vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical.
-- Dr. Martin Kulldorff
We need to consider the possibility that the panicked mass injection of the population with an experimental genetic agent, multiple times, ignoring the fact there was no long term safety data - could be the greatest and most deadly mistake in human history.
The problem with such a monumental and catastrophic error, is that the politicians and government health bureaucrats responsible (and their cheer-squads in media) who all parroted Big Pharma's 'SAFE & EFFECTIVE' will never be able to admit what they have done.
Therefore instead of pulling the Covid shots from the market, as doctors around the world are pleading, they'll just keep recommending injecting them into people, including children and babies.
-- Craig Kelly
Correlation doesn't mean causation, however in a sane world the injections should be stopped immediately until it can be definitely proved that excess deaths are not from the booster shots. But the vaxinists are a cult they'll ignore the data and keep jabbing until they are arrested.
-- Craig Kelly
Gee, I wonder what could be leading to all the excess non-Covid deaths we've suddenly seen in the last 12 months, not just in the United States but all over Western Europe and Australia too? Something definitely changed near the end of 2020, I just wish I could remember what ...
Oh well. The mystery continues!
-- Alex Berenson
Stop the silly screening protocols. There is no scientific basis for treating the hospital entrance like a militarized border crossing. Everyone knows to stay home if sick. I don't need someone to hand me a mask with salad tongs.
-- Matt Strauss, MD
The real thing with children is that they don't need it [the injection]. There doesn't need to be any discussion about it being a problem. They don't need it. So why are they pushing so hard for children to have it. It makes no sense.
-- Dr. Clare Craig
The gene-based shots and all shots are to the original variant. We're demanding and seeing problems with the shot around the world and the mandates for a protein that's extinct. The very simple question to ask people is why would you get a shot for a virus that doesn't exist?
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
I'm always mocking how overreactive everyone f**king is to covid. People [have] got to let it go.
-- Bill Maher
The ‘UNVACCINATED’ were the smart ones!
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
What we've seen is this ... groupthink approach to policy. I sought information ... saying tell us the science this is based on. Of course the science was null and void.
It's been this incredible period of fearmongering, and the fear has led to people happily sacrificing their liberty at the alter of safety.
-- Alex Antic, Australian Senator
One of the greatest misuses of science in history: make people believe that they are sick until proven healthy.
-- Shawn Stevenson
Ultimately, New Zealand's 'Zero Covid' strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
In May 2020 I spoke to a senior leader ... who had an incredibly insightful picture of what was happening ... on this Covid thing. He's an Engineer, and a manager, and of course he knows all the data, so he saw very early on like I did that ... what's happening; this is insane. But he also had all the psychology.
-- Ivor Cummins
Before Covid, scientists agreed people who did not have symptoms of respiratory viruses like influenza did not spread illness. ("The driver of respiratory outbreaks is symptomatic people, not asymptomatic carriers", Dr. Anthony Fauci famously said on January 28, 2020.)
But if asymptomatic transmission is rare, the Covid mitigation measures [America Covid response co-ordinator] favored - including mask mandates, lockdowns, and widespread testing of asymptomatic people - are impossible to justify.
-- Alex Berenson
I am devastated that so many in our family and friend groups all rushed to get the various offerings to "get their lives back!"
-- Teri Drda
Years from now, what I will remember most about the pandemic is not a virus but [their] response to it. Intolerant, contemptful, rude and savage. [They] threaten instead of persuade, mandate instead of respect, and gaslight, scapegoat, and insult [their] targets into submission. When did [they] become so publicly and unapologetically savage under the guise of well-signalled virtue?
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
By now, even COVID-19 'vaccine' fanatics surely notice that the hyped-up gene-therapy jabs are eerily dangerous and far too often deadly. Indeed, a growing list of irrefutable facts and data about the jabs offers proof that they do not prevent someone from catching or transmitting COVID-19. Likewise, there is little to no evidence that the 'vaccines' lessen the symptoms of the virus for those who become infected. Instead, along with creating more vicious strains of COVID-19, the jabs have serious side effects that are more common—and often much worse—than the virus itself. And data shows that the jabs are far less effective than natural immunity. These facts need to be repeated and shared far and wide. Simply put—the jabs are killing people.
-- Michelle Edwards
Vaccinated individuals pretty much almost completely nullified their ability to mount immune response, which might explain why so many vaccinated individuals are being reinfected. Some of the … individuals were not even able to mount any T-Cell response … long-lasting detrimental effects.
-- Dr. Mikolaj Raszek
I love seeing the mental gymnastics to justify their blind obedience.
-- pseudonym aSinisterKiid
The issue, for me, isn't about the jab anymore, my main concern is how easily most people can get programmed into treating their friends and family and others so inhumanely because the government, mainstream media, and celebrities told them to.
-- Laura Matsue
If this is not a cult I don't know what it is. Mindless zombies!
-- JustDudeChannel
Elevated biomarkers - these are substances released from damaged heart muscle. Now I was actually taken aback by these figures, these very high levels, and the implications of this. I really feel that this is something that the [UK] NHS and the [US] CDC should be taking cognizance of straightaway, with a view to changing their guidelines, I would have thought as an emergency, based on this data.
-- Dr. John Campbell
Now that the CDC in the USA have finally admitted that unvaccinated people are not more likely to catch or spread COVID (even though this is still another lie, as the data shows it’s the vaccinated more likely to catch and spread COVID) - will all those that demonised and encouraged discrimination against those that decided they’d pass on joining the global experimental now apologise?
-- Craig Kelly
Mass containment is no longer in the growth phase, and those who remain committed to viral hysteria must now ponder what they’ll do next.
-- pseudonym Eugyppius
New study confirms negative efficacy. The more you inject the more you infect. The mandates were not only a violation of human rights, they have caused MORE people to be infected. The authors of this study say the results where 'surprising'. Rubbish. Anyone not brainwashed and following the data knew the vaccines had negative efficacy over a year ago.
-- Craig Kelly
You must know that the true amount of vax-caused death and injury is actually much, much greater than the few you are currently aware of in your community. Many people are suffering quietly, and the long term is likely to be even worse G-d forbid, as we are aware of many healthy-looking people suddenly dying months later, or coming out with severe problems even a year later. The covid shots greatly increase ALL CAUSE mortality, and this is well documented.
Data from England and other countries show clearly that the all cause mortality is much HIGHER among covid vaxxed individuals.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
Even in terms of the shot saving lives “from covid”, that’s also blatantly untrue. The true data about COVID hospitalization and death of vaxxed compared to unvaxxed from England, Israel, etc (where the data has been more transparent than in the US) clearly shows the shot does NOT prevent hospitalization or death from covid, and actually increases the risks of catching covid and dying from covid.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
One of the great scandals of these vaccines, that no proper toxicity studies have been carried out.
-- Dr. Michael Palmer
Excuse my ignorance, but are any unvaccinated people getting Bell's Palsy, shingles, blood clots, myocarditis, or dying suddenly with SADS? Just curious.
-- Sonia Bowditch
As a biologist I have studied the covid 19 issue from the start with an open mind. As the last two years unfolded I found more questions than answers, found more deceit and authoritarianism, manipulation and commercial greed than I have ever seen before. Sadly, the research I have conducted brings me to the conclusion that mass psychosis is not only real but relatively easy to achieve. I have lost friends over this subject and family members often dismiss anything other than the government narrative. I am glad to be in the minority of the 3% who utilise critical thinking.
-- Thomas Ward
Those who really understand science saw through the lies and spoke out. They were vilified for it.
-- Geri Price
The COVID vaccines were a failure. They failed to prevent spread of the disease and they became an impediment to developing vaccines that would actually prevent spread. They became an excuse not to develop treatments. They have side effects that weren't disclosed.
-- Thomas Massie, US Representative
What was reported in the mainstream news as being 95% effective against infection was in fact relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction. That specific NEJM paper which underpinned the emergency use authorisation of the [drug company] vaccine actually revealed an absolute risk reduction of 0.84%.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
These Are the Riskiest Products Ever Conceived for Mass Administration.
The spike protein is what makes the coronavirus lethal.
The COVID injections code the body to make the spike protein. Therefore, the 'vaccines' are producing the lethal part of the virus.
This lethal protein is produced for an uncontrolled quantity and an uncontrolled amount of time.
When you think about that biologic ramification, that's the most risky vaccine anybody can ever come up with because it's completely uncontrolled. So in the wrong person at the wrong time, if they produce too much of it for too long of a time, it's going to be lethal.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Not only do masks not work to protect people from respiratory illnesses, they can never work. Worse, there's a 70+ year old hierarchy of controls against respiratory hazards. Masks do not even appear on this hierarchy. Not even in worst place. THEY ARE SPLASHGUARDS, NOT AIR FILTERS. They've never been used as filters. That's not what they are, or do. They prevent splashes of biological fluids from entering the mouth or nose of the wearer.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
Now that we know the vaccinated are more likely to spread covid than unvaccinated we should fire them from their jobs and ban them from restaurants, bars and all othe gatherings, or handcuff them in front of their children.
-- Kreuk Caribou
I do feel sorry for people who were coerced or hoodwinked into taking the jabs initially. But at this late stage in the game, anyone taking them is insanely stupid or, presumably, wants to commit slow suicide.
-- Chris Cowley
It's absolutely mind-boggling to me that we have to endure endless claims about how 'no one ever said it would prevent infection' when [Director of US NIH], the CDC director, the President, and the [injection company] CEO all said directly to the public that it did.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Unexplained excess deaths outstrip those from virus as medics call figures 'terrifying'.
-- Sarah Knapton, Science Editor, The Telegraph
Covid has caused a new psychiatric disorder, and it's not what you think; please help me name it. We need a word for this new illness, which exclusively affects members of Team Reality. It is a low- to medium-grade anxiety disorder caused by the realization that the bureaucrats and politicians who are nominally in charge do not really know what they’re doing, cannot read or understand data, and will not course correct in response to new information.
It is not a conspiratorial or paranoid, it’s not exactly being red-pilled, but rather a grinding disillusionment and realization that the people in charge (including the people writing about the people in charge) are, if not quite idiots, not nearly as smart as they think they are and everyone is going to have to fight like mad to keep things from getting worse.
-- Alex Berenson
Please stop calling people who support things like censorship, deplatforming opponents, lockdowns, mandatory face coverings, coerced injections, racial discrimination, and/or medical segregation 'liberals'. None of these things are remotely liberal. They are authoritarian.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
It's the vaccine, stupid, NOT the virus, that is causing the infectious variants!
-- Paul Alexander
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
279% SPIKE in Miscarriages
487% SPIKE in Breast Cancer
1048% SPIKE in the Nervous System
155% SPIKE in Birth Defects
350% SPIKE in Male Infertility
369% SPIKE in Testicular Cancer
2181% SPIKE in Hypertension
664% SPIKE in Malignant Neoplasms
680% SPIKE in Multiple Sclerosis
551% SPIKE in Guillain-Barre Syndrome
468% SPIKE in Pulmonary Embolism
302% SPIKE in Tachycardia
452% SPIKE in Migraines
471% SPIKE in Female Infertility
437% SPIKE in Ovarian Dysfunction
269% SPIKE in Myocardial infarction
291% SPIKE in Bell’s palsy
467% SPIKE in Pulmonary Embolism
-- (attribution might be Jason Christoff)
In a well functioning democracy with a healthy press, claims by government officials are usually taken by journalists with a healthy skepticism and something that needs to be fact checked and verified. Here in Canada, it's the opposite. North Korean territory.
-- Rupa Subramanya
It was presidents, prime ministers, politicians, chief medical advisers, the NHS, CDC, the FDA and the vast majority of the media that were spreading what it's now clear is misinformation and they're still doing it.
-- Neil Oliver
In medical school, students are taught that a good doctor treats the patient, not a lab result. During the pandemic, public health rearranged society to control a single metric - covid cases - based on a lab test. This was bad medicine on a society-wide scale.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Can all the experts who said lockdowns were essential, covid vaccines were safe, masks work and measures were necessary, go on TV to apologise as often as they were on to push the false messaging? After all, we can't allow disinformation right?
-- Emma Kenny
I still don't understand why it [has] been conveniently forgotten that in 2015 and 2018 Ontario nurses won two legal battles against mandatory mask wearing during flu season. It was proven then that masks do not work in a hospital day-to-day setting.
-- Kevin Klerks
When the vaccines were first released we were told they were 95% effective against infection. This is not true. This is based on relative risk reduction. In absolute terms, they provided 0.84 percent protection.
This statistic was the pretence under which vaccine mandates were implemented.
The latest data reveals that once infected there is no significant difference in transmission rates between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, which makes any scientific case for mandates illegitimate.
As newer and thankfully, less lethal, mutated strains became dominant, any protection against infection at the very least became less effective and likely completely ineffective.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Rather than encourage transparent debate about the true benefits and potential harms of the Covid vaccine as new evidence emerges, those that encourage more critical thinking and adding to the database of relevant knowledge are smeared. Global vaccine mandates for Covid-19 must stop until we have the full data on efficacy of all available vaccines.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Still the demonizing of those who won’t comply goes on. We were ridiculed, insulted, called cranks and conspiracy theorists. We’re still under attack for spreading alleged misinformation. Anyone paying attention, knows that when it comes to safety and efficacy, as well as the logic of lockdowns, it was presidents, prime ministers, politicians, chief medical advisors, the NHS, the CDC, the FDA, and the vast majority of the media that were spreading what’s it’s now clear was misinformation. And they’re still doing it!
Sorry is a long way short of being enough. Sorry won't cut it. It seems simple enough to me, but perhaps I should spell it out for the guilty parties. When you screw up this badly, it's time to get your coat and leave. Just finally, this late in the day, after having caused uncountable lifetimes of damage, hurt and heartbreak, find a shred of decency and take a walk!
-- Neil Oliver
But the reality is that was not grounded in data. It was not grounded in evidence. It was basically the current thing. People would put in their [social media] profile, a mask and a syringe, and that was like their identity. And it was ridiculous.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
They lied to us about the RNA shots. They said, if you take it, you will not get COVID. That is false. That is not true. And they continue to say, even now when the evidence is so overwhelming. It's just time and time again ... you've seen ideology placed over data and evidence. Then what they'll do is they will kind of move the goal post and they will constantly try to shift, because they will never admit that their ideology was incorrect.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
I represent over 17,000 physicians and medical scientists, and we came out with a clear, unequivocal press conference statement ... that these vaccines are not indicated for any population and should be withdrawn.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly.
-- Thomas Sowell
Anybody else wonder why there were so many videos of dancing nurses in 2020 when hospitals were allegedly overwhelmed but in 2022, when many are verifiably overwhelmed, we aren't getting any encore performance?
-- Paul Herbert Michaels
Not one person in [Canadian Prime Minister's] 20-strong Covid recovery group panel ... had any education in epidemiology, medicine, or public health!
-- Dan Wooton
The great lockdown scandal is about to unravel. The pseudo-scientific sheen is finally being stripped off the decision to shut down Britain.
That the culture of fear, seen in the Orwellian advertising campaign that sought to terrify the country, applied inside Government.
Lockdown was always a political decision but No 10 wanted to dress it up as “following the science”.
“The science” was, in fact, no such thing. [UK's Chief Medical Officer, and UK's Chief Scientific Advisor] began by advising ministers not to lock down, saying public events were fine, and that face masks were pointless. They were talking about herd immunity as the way out. Then they flipped entirely. But this reveals something crucial: lockdown never was backed by science. It was about models and suppositions, educated guesswork. It was driven by moods, emotion, fear – and, worst of all, politics masquerading as science. It somehow went from being a daft idea, rubbished by scientists, to a national imperative whose necessity was unquestionable scientific truth.
-- Fraser Nelson (with Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer)
We shouldn’t have empowered the scientists in the way we did. And you have to acknowledge trade-offs from the beginning. If we’d done all of that, we could be in a very different place.
-- Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
The use of fear is a well-known tactic by tyrannical governments. Michael Chrichton knew this when he said, 'social control is best managed through fear'. Social control is indeed best managed through fear, and it always works on an ignorant population.
-- pseudonym Data Trumps Consensus
What the past 3 years have taught me about "the majority" of people:
- the "majority" have no intelligence or education
- will lick boots and do whatever they are told
- have ZERO scientific knowledge
- are weak, afraid, and cowardly
- are VERY gullible
- have ZERO integrity
-- Dr. James Olsson
The vaccines have done damage to the immune system such that it makes people more likely to get COVID—over a longer term, not the short-term vaccine benefit period, but after that—more likely to get COVID infections, more likely to get other respiratory infections.
-- Dr. Harvey Risch
No-one in any position of leadership is yet talking about the worst aspects of this most coordinated and sustained criminal act in history: fabricating the statistics, preventing independent medical practice, and locking us up until their poison was ready. Turning a blind eye to vaccine death and injury, censoring professional concerns, and coercing the population to experimental injection.
The lack of safety data and the presence of early danger signals in the initial jab studies, the low mortality from SARS-CoV-2 and the absence of a basis for lockdown and other non-pharmaceutical measures were present from the inception of, quite probably, the worst iatrogenic health disaster in history.
-- pseudonym The Covid Physician
Excess deaths ... this is an international concern. And the fact that other governments around the world aren't bouncing up and down about this really trying to get to the bottom of this is surprising. We still see that there's excess mortality, to quite high orders above what would be expected - 10%, 20%. These are non-covid-related deaths, so we’re seeing an excess of non-covid-related deaths. The other thing that’s concerning is this is across all age groups.
-- Dr. John Campbell
No evidence against the “vaccination” horror, however solid and (to us) compelling it may be, can penetrate the minds that just don’t want to know what all such solid evidence so obviously means — i.e. that those great institutions claiming to respect “the science,” and to want to keep us “safe,” and lead us “back to normal,” have actually—deliberately, and systematically—denied “the science” all along; consistently discouraged effective regimens and remedies, while fiercely pushing products known to kill or cripple us. Multiple papers now suggest that COVID mRNA vaccines impair not just immunity to COVID, but immunity and immune surveillance overall. Data from multiple countries now shows that all cause mortality (deaths from everything) are higher in the vaccinated.
-- Mark Crispin Miller
Can you imagine how many less popular young people have died [from the injections] without hitting the spotlight.
-- Lefteris Demetriou
Ethics 101.
The thing is though, even if they were effective, the mandates are an ideological problem at their core. They insist on the utilitarian principle that it is okay for an individual to give up their right to choose (bodily autonomy) in sacrificing themselves for the many.
The trolley question: if a train is coming down a track that will kill 6 people, can you pull a lever to switch it onto a track that will only kill one?
The answer, after WW2, was decidedly NO, because you cannot play God, you cannot choose. Now, the question is up for debate.
Framed another way: Can you push someone onto the tracks to save the 6? Is killing ever justified?
Since we have lost our collective moral human compass, we find ourselves allowing the normalcy of playing God, or deciding the fate of others, for the "good" of the many.
But who can decide what the good of the many is? No human can. No one has the answer for the aggregate good. Only each individual can decide what is good for themselves. If you decide to not take a medicine that may save your life, that is your decision, in a truly free world.
-- Kate Wand
Death counts were the sine qua non of the Covid epidemic; to pretend they do not matter now is bizarre. (Remember when deaths counted? Those were the days...). Governments worldwide have been doing everything possible to hide data that shows how poorly the Covid shots now work against [the current straing]. But they are not going to be able to stop reporting all-cause mortality, which means we will all be able to see these trends for ourselves.
-- Alex Berenson
The jabbed telling the unjabbed to get jabbed is like sending 'Wish you were here' postcards from the Titanic.
-- unattributed from the internet
Fake pictures of people dropping in the streets in China was enough to start a global panic. Live pictures of fit young athletes dropping down dead of heart attacks after taking the vaccines is not worth talking about.
-- unattributed from the internet
'Safe and effective' are more like 'useless and dangerous'. Like Dr. Vladimir Zelenko said, 'You don't have to believe me. You just have to follow facts and science'. Real science - not the one they mention on TV all the time.
-- Dr. [unintelligible]
How many times can public health officials keep moving the goalposts before most people finally realize the kind of game they're actually playing when it comes to the COVID shot? The math is simply there, and it doesn't bode well for vax-proponents: 9 out of 10 COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths reported in Canada were among people who were considered fully vaxxed - and most of these were among triple- or quadruple-jabbed. If governments want us to be more trusting of their public health efforts, maybe they should be more transparent about what the public health data is revealing.
-- Sara Middleton
All of these backtracking statements on lockdowns from people in power would sound very different if at the time, nobody had pointed out the lunacy of what they were doing. Unfortunately for them, there were millions of us screaming it into their faces every single day. And it's not as if they can claim not to have heard us. They very much acknowledged us. They referred to us, labelled us, othered us, chastised us, sacked us, cancelled us, censored us. They all knew what we were saying.
-- Bob Moran
If you have ... a mask on in your display pic, then I frankly don't care about your opinion. On anything. I'd rather talk to a toddler. They're less predictable and more capable of individual thought.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The scientific reality is that officials cannot claim that the Covid-19 vaccines and public health measures saved more lives than they cost. The evidentiary failure of the vaccines to show a reduction in serious illness and all-cause mortality cannot be overcome by any amount of weak observational studies and wishful simulations conjured up or concocted by government officials and their roster of 'experts'.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
You better hope you don’t contract unknown cause of death because there’s a lot of people dying from it.
-- JP Sears
The swine flu vaccine campaign taught us, after 53 deaths, that it was unacceptable to take an injection electively and die. What the hell changed?
-- unattributed
We find that the regulatory imposition and enforcement of statewide shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders conclusively correlates with larger health-status-corrected, per capita, all-cause mortality by state. This result is inconsistent with the hypothesis that lockdowns saved lives.
-- John Johnson, Denis Rancourt
Emerging statistics on excess mortality rates paint an alarming picture. Far more people died in 2021, after the rollout of the COVID shots, and in 2022, than during the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020. ...Those shocking statistics ... are mirrored around the world.
But while rational people look at these figures and ask themselves what the most apparent and likely cause behind this sudden rise in deaths of working-age adults and younger people might be, mainstream media are trying to divert your attention from the elephant in the room — mass injection with experimental gene transfer technology — to anything and everything but that.
-- Dr. Joseph Mercola
Nothing says 'trust the science' like asking for the data to be hidden for 75 years.
-- unattributed
mRNA shots are the gift that keeps on giving
Physicians (not American, of course) find vaccine-generated coronavirus spike protein in skin lesions, months after vaccination.
Remember when the Centers for Disease Control told you the mRNA in Covid vaccines didn’t last long in your cells?
Remember when fact-checkers at Reuters told you the coronavirus spike protein the vaccines make you produce isn’t dangerous?
About that.
The CDC has now quietly removed its promise that your body 'breaks down and gets rid of the mRNA soon after it is finished' with initially making spike protein.
Meanwhile, scientists keep piling up evidence that the spike protein remains in the body for months, at least, and is far from benign.
-- Alex Berenson
The mRNAs have turned out to be a truly bad bet. The all-cause mortality and live birth data are the most important data we have, the only figures that are not susceptible to some form of political pressure, and they are increasingly screaming red.
-- Alex Berenson
Deep down, everyone knows exactly what’s going on. Surely people are just in denial at this point because it seems to be very clear to me and I find it hard to believe people aren’t seeing what’s happening, which is almost as alarming and terrifying as the [non-covid-excess] deaths themselves.
-- pseudonym Endless Nameless
I would not say I was a naive man 6 years ago. I was in my early 50s, and I had seen a lot of the world over the years. Some even thought I was something of a cynic, but I would have said that I was a worldly realist. Still, the last six years have shaken my confidence in the governing and academic and scientific establishments more deeply than I would have thought possible. Especially the last three years.
-- David Carpenter
Right now they are saying that we should trust mouse data and I don't think that should ever be true. I don't think you should ever ask tens of millions of people to get a vaccine based on mouse data.
-- Dr. Paul Offit
Do boosters save people from getting very sick with Covid? New data from Britain say the opposite.
The mRNA vaccine miracle just keeps getting more special. Don't blame me; the numbers come straight from the British government.
Newly mRNA boosted adults aged 40-74 are now TWICE as likely to be hospitalized for Covid as those who haven't recently been boosted, a new British government report shows.
Vaccine advocates endlessly claim that though mRNA shots fail against [current strain] infection in weeks, they still miraculously prevent Covid from becoming a serious illness that could require hospitalization. These figures, which cover hospitalizations in June, suggest otherwise.
Deaths are soaring in one of the world's most highly mRNA vaccinated areas. Deaths in the Australian state of Victoria, where 95 percent of adults have received Covid vaccines and most are boosted with mRNA shots, soared to their highest level in at least 13 years in August - far above the five-year average.
Victoria offers almost unique data: near-real-time reporting on death trends in millions of people who are heavily vaccinated but had little exposure to Covid before being jabbed.
The picture is increasingly grim.
-- Alex Berenson
Let me get this straight. In the UK, kids under 12 can't get the [injection] anymore. Whereas in New York City, kids under 12 can't go to certain schools / programs unless they get [injection]. And we are supposed to take these leaders seriously?
-- (Lion Advocacy)
Ontario covid deaths this week [early September 2022]: 74
Same week last year: 53
-- Bill Comeau
That's how you know the [injection] is working.
-- (psuedonum DPR Circulon)
If you were a bookmaker setting a market on what's to blame for the unprecedented excess mortality - 'the boosters' would be very short priced favourite.
In a sane world, with so many different remarkable correlations between the booster and surges in excess mortality - knowing that the boosters have a number of mechanisms that cause death - we'd apply the precautionary principle and STOP THE SHOTS until it was proven otherwise that they weren't to blame.
But we live at a time of mass formation psychosis - and with so many invested so heavily into the vaccines in a cult like manner, the possibility that the injections are causing all this death is just to shocking for many to even contemplate - so the shots will roll on, and so likely will the excess deaths.
-- Craig Kelly
Ethically Dr McCullough is correct. Given the remarkable correlation between the timing of the 'boosters' and excess deaths, and the fact the injections have multiple mechanisms which are known to cause death - the precautionary principle requires that we must assume that the vaccines are the cause of the excess deaths, until proven otherwise.
-- Craig Kelly
It's really disturbing that a respectable doctor has to do verbal gymnastics to avoid being silenced, while quoting directly from the CDCs own data. If this doesn't worry you... It really should.
-- Sarah Hale-Pearson
Since when has the censorship of opposing views been in the best interest of humanity?
-- Steve Kirsch
We've already been now a year watching European footballers collapse and die on fields. We're well over a thousand professional athletes in the past year, and the former average for 30 years was 29 a year. And so, how many people have to drop dead before we say, 'Gee, there's something wrong here.'?
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
Compared to the flu - it's somewhat different, and it is somewhat different, but it basically targets the elderly, like the flu does. So to freak out ...
This is all just ideology. This is not medicine. This is indoctrination. And to me the frightening thing was never the disease itself; the frightening thing was how much you could get people, so quickly, to change their way of life.
-- Bill Maher
Wearing a mask is participating in an antisocial hygiene virus cult. It’s been devastating for me to watch older colleagues, whose opinion and expertise I respect, succumb to this irrational superstition. Masks are evil because they frame everyone as a potential vector of disease, and force the healthy to act as if they were sick. They are a reminder to keep several meters distance at all times, to sanitise your hands, and to engage in all the other stupid pandemic liturgies that evaporated this summer during our very brief mask reprieve. Masks are socially corrosive, and on top of that they’re ugly, they smell terrible, they’re physically uncomfortable, and — biggest of ironies for an alleged hygiene product — their daily use and re-use is just disgusting. But none of this matters, because Science. This simply has to stop. It’s very important. Community masking is not healthy, it’s not hygienic, it’s not safe, it’s not reasonable. It’s sick. It’s profoundly sick. I’m tired being forced to perform sickness.
-- pseudonym Eugyppius
Never forget that in order to supposedly ‘save lives’, our abysmally stupid governments were arresting and giving tickets to people walking their dogs alone in parks.
-- Maxime Bernier
This is absolutely a tragedy. This is malfeasance; it is a regulatory breach. And those accountable for it — they should be called forward and brought to justice. We should never have products — ever — that are released and then actually forced on the U.S. population without having adequate safety testing in humans.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
I think the evidence is very, very strong to call for a complete suspension of this vaccine, pending an inquiry so that we can have a more honest discussion about who potentially benefits, who's going to get more harm than good, if at all.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
There is a strong scientific, ethical and moral case to be made that the current COVID vaccine administration must stop until all the raw data has been subjected to fully independent scrutiny.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
According to Shoemaker, the vaccine “is a more toxic version of the virus – more toxic, more damaging and more lethal, especially in the long-term as it damages your t-cells.” He added that the deaths connected to the COVID-19 vaccines prove that they don’t work.
They make you four times more likely to get COVID. In the last eight months, 95 percent of the people in the ICU are fully vaccinated. The vaccinated have been harmed. Their immune systems are being harmed. Stop harming your immune systems. You are only going to perpetuate the pandemic.
-- Dr. Chris Alan Shoemaker
I'm not advocating for 'safer' versions. I'm not advocating for a 'delayed schedule'. I'm not advocating for receiving the ones that are 'most needed'.
I'm an advocate for truth, and the truth is NONE of them are needed - ever. They have nothing whatsoever to do with health.
-- Danny Zeck
The data clearly showed very early on after the COVID vaccine rollout that there was no difference in terms of viral load between a vaccinated and unvaccinated person. Thus the policy was punitive and nonsensical, and not just for nurses, but for all employees subjected to it without any scientific basis.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
There is nothing more anti-science than refusing to allow questions.
-- Tamata Jansen
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. There cannot be force, there cannot be fraud, there cannot be deceit, there cannot be duress, and there cannot be coercion.
-- Dr. Peterson Pierre
Anyone dying of [the current strain] is likely either incredibly old, incredibly sick. According to the coroner's office, most are vaccinated. It should be obvious that Covid death counting is now pure theater. Which raises a somewhat unpleasant question: if Covid is no longer killing anyone who wasn't at death's door, why is overall excess mortality so high across the heavily mRNA vaccinated countries?
-- Alex Berenson
Some people wouldn't know tyranny if it covered their faces, locked them in their homes, enacted the biggest wealth transfer in history, censored them, made them show papers, and force medicated them.
-- unattributed from the internet
Too many people are dying 'suddenly and unexpectedly' and the media is gaslighting the public by pretending it's some sort of a conspiracy to point this out.
-- Candace Owens
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Those who know the least, obey the best.
-- George Farquhar
Coercion is not consent.
-- unattributed from the internet
This inversion of reality must not go unchallenged. In truth, both the experience of countries that did NOT use the mRNAs and those that did suggests that the [brand name] and [brand name] shots did nothing to shorten the epidemic.
-- Alex Berenson
Being skeptical isn't just about being contrarian. It's about asking the right questions of ourselves and others to gain understanding. Smart people question everything. Skepticism ... critical thinking makes you smarter.
-- site: Big Think
Vax is affecting the menstrual cycle, elderly vaxxed 80% more likely to get sick than unvaxxed, vax wrecking the immune system... It just goes on and one and one ...
-- Dr. Roger Hodkinson
This isn't usual or normal! This isn't a part of conventional practice. This is far outside the norms. Until something's proven to be safe, in no way should it be mandated.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Do you remember the Takata airbag recall? The Takata corporation made defective airbag charges that would explode, sometimes spontaneously, and send pieces of metal shrapnel into the faces and necks of drivers. In 2014 one young lady died and a dozen more were wounded. That one death prompted the historic record recall of 65 million vehicles in the U.S. and a fine of $200 million against Takata. Over the next few years more drivers died. 17 in the US and 27 world wide.
Now look at the gene injection for COVID. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, no recall, no admission of responsibility. The deaths continue. What’s the difference?
The manufacturers have no liability for injuries and deaths from the use of their products!
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
Swine Flu Vaccine (1976) - Pulled after showing a 1 in 100,000 risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Rotavirus Vaccine (1999) - Pulled after showing a 1 in 10,000 risk of bowel obstruction.
COVID Jab (2020) - Still on the market with a serious adverse event rate between 1 in 800 and 1 in 1,000.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
Do you remember, before the internet, that it was thought that the cause of collective stupidity was the lack of access to information? Well it wasn't that.
-- site Vaccine Choice Canada
The first real evidence mRNA shots RAISE the risk of Covid hospitalization and death over time. A big Swedish study offers fragmentary but suggestive data, using data covering 9 million people ... showing mRNA jabs may increase the risk of [strain] infection after three months. ... Vaccinated people had a HIGHER risk of death or hospitalization from Covid roughly a year afte receiving their second dose.
-- Alex Berenson
[This] current report presents the case of a man ... who died three weeks after receiving his third COVID-19 vaccination. The presence of spike protein must be ascribed to vaccination rather than to viral infection. The findings corroborate previous reports of encephalitis and myocarditis caused by gene-based COVID-19 vaccines.
-- Michael Morz
Another study to remind us that our jab-first-ask-questions-later mass vaccination campaign was reckless and irresponsible.
-- Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
[Drug company] lied! Pure lies and CDC and FDA lied to us and knew the lie! The 95% relative risk reduction (RRR) used to get the EUA was actually 0.8% absolute risk reduction (ARR).
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
So how is it that mRNAs had no effect on all-cause mortality but protect against fatal COVID? Well, either they don’t really protect against COVID, or the nominal benefit is washed away by the mortality from adverse events.
-- Daniel Horowitz
The sinking ship of the mandate enthusiasts took on more water last month with the publication of a powerhouse paper by some of the world’s top bioethicists. Thank goodness it came along when it did to undercut the intoxicating public health message that the mRNA vaccines are the only way to save the human race from COVID-19. But, with all its strengths, I worry that the paper misses the larger point about why vaccine mandates are wrong. It’s still playing at the collectivist cost-benefit game, a morally flawed one with rules that normatively privilege the group over the individual and assign no absolute value to the right of self-governance.
Being vaccinated under duress or due to coercion constitutes not just a risk of harm but actual harm to one’s bodily autonomy and therefore to personhood. There’s nothing more defining of human life, and nothing so essential for making life worth living, as our capacity for rational agency, which is as valuable as life itself. Bodily autonomy — the right to governance over one’s own body — isn’t a mere 'nice-to-have;' it’s the rational expression of the capacities that make us who and what we are.
Vaccine mandates are wrong not because they fail to generate a net benefit or because the risks to vaccinated persons outweigh public health benefits (though both are true). They are wrong because they trample on the very thing the noblest version of a liberal democratic society should be trying to create. If our society is to be great, it must aspire to more than safety or, more accurately, the perception of safety.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
The 'Safe & Effective'(TM) mantra has hypnotized people, as has the suggestion that injecting yourself protects others.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
I'm glad for 1 thing about the past 3 years, that is there were certain people - as well as agencies and corporations - for which I had a basic sense of trust. That trust is completely gone. And I'm glad I found out how corrupt and fraudulent they are. This knowledge protects me.
-- Dr. James E. Olsson
And to pretend that you have enough information - with all the things they've been wrong about - just we don't know that much.
All the drugs they pulled off the market because they said they were safe and effective but they weren't. Now you tell me!
You don't have a monopoly on what the truth is.
-- Bill Maher
It turns out 'get vaccinated to save other people' was a farce. I think I owe a lot of people an apology. I genuinely thought I could trust the 'experts'. I'm very disappointed to have been hoodwinked by the propaganda.
-- James Smith
I am currently accepting apologies from everybody who falsely labeled me heartless, evil, anti-science, selfish, pro-Covid, grandma killer, a stupid anti-vaxxer, and worse ... and everybody who accused me of killing people over the past 2.5+ years.
Waiting.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Be honest, you didn’t trust the science. You trusted the TV.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
A [drug company] executive has admitted that they never tested vaccines on transmission. That means that Covid passports, and stop the spread ... was just guesswork at best, and lies at worst.
Throughout that time, we were censored, we were told there are some things we can’t discuss, we were told this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, you’re selfish, you could be killing people. All of that stuff - they can’t have believed it because they didn’t test it. So what remains is propaganda … the ability to manipulate and control people. Once you have people compliant, and doing what they’re told, and just believing the giddy rush of mad gush pumped out of mainstream media portals, then you don’t have awakened citizens contesting the information that they’re given.
-- Russell Brand
Because of your silence, that's how it got here. If you continue to do and say things you know do not make sense or are not right, where do you think it's going to be in five years, where do you think it's going to be in ten years. We've seen many times in history what happens what happens when people go along with things that are wrong and unethical. We need to remember it.
Have some humility that we are not so much wiser than everyone who came before us; that we're suddenly immune to all these mental and cognitive flaws, or that we're immune to groupthink - of going along with the herd. I think there's a pandemic of cowardice right now.
Be more bold and forthright and outspoken in the face of nonsense and things that are wrong.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Using the disclosed data by the Japanese government, we observed increased myocarditis mortality rate ratio in the SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated population compared with general population during three years pre-COVID-19 pandemic era.
However, not only in young adults, but also in the middle aged (40s) and in the elderly and overall vaccinated, increased risk of myocarditis death is associated with vaccination even without consideration of healthy vaccinee effect.
Dr. Sintaroo Watanabe and Dr. Rokuro Hama
The problem with being brainwashed is believing you haven’t been brainwashed.
-- unknown attribution
How many more [died suddenly]? Literally the same people who were up in arms about the elderly dying in retirement homes are silent on the young now dropping like flies.
-- Tommy Robinson
Look at who’s getting COVID in record numbers: the people who’ve already gotten the shots!
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
It seems to me that compelling evidence of people being killed by these shots - it doesn't have to be proof - would have to be investigated.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
All those in media/politics who accepted vaccine passports without a single question about ethics/effectiveness should be ashamed of themselves. Not just that, they attacked those of us who had the sense to be critical.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
-- (attributed to) Aristotle
The COVID vaccine was rushed to the market and wasn’t properly tested. It is responsible for a significant number of deaths. Time to get serious and stop pretending that it’s normal for 20 year old athletes to drop dead.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Vaccines never prevented the transmission of COVID. Allowing zealots to censor news in the name of 'science' is a danger to public health.
-- Alex Gutentag
Another new study - yes, a SECOND one - says the '[mutation]-specific' mRNA Covid boosters are worthless. For the second time in a week, top scientists have reported that '[mutation] specific' Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick.
-- Alex Berenson
The idea that all vaccines are safe and effective is like saying all prescription drugs are safe and effective. Every one needs to be considered separately.
-- B. Hagen
Given this evidence, perhaps the Minister can explain to us why we're vaccinating healthy children who are at minimal risk from Covid. Surely this is in breach of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm. We're not in a situation where we can ask young people to risk their lives to protect older people. In a civilized society, that can't be the way it works.
Where's the cost-benefit analysis by age group for the vaccines, given the risks that they carry, especially as the pharmaceutical companies are admitting that the vaccine/vaccination does not impact on transmission.
Even a casual glance at the data shows that there's a very strong correlation between vaccine uptake and the level of excess deaths being found. Surely we must have an investigation. If we don't get this right, no one's going to believe / we're going to lose trust in politicians, and we're going to lose trust in our medicine, and our medical system.
-- Andrew Bridgen, Member of Parliament, UK
Science works by challenge.
That's how science progresses; a dialectic progression.
Science works by challenge.
-- Dr. John Campbell
I miss the days when misinformation actually meant wrong information not information that contradicts propaganda.
-- Luke Kent
The conspiracy theorists have been right 100% of the time. It's just pattern recognition at this point.
-- pseudonym Poisonedblade
We were proven right. Data has been on our side, and the recent studies are on our side. You don't have to be a scientist to know that.
I stood against vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, school closures. I was called a 'granny killer', was called selfish, I was called every name under the sun. These people ... I'd be very surprised if some of these media figures were not paid to say these things. They can't be that disgusting; they can't have been that naive and stupid.
-- Adam Brooks
Apparently, 'critical thinking' is now considered being a 'conspiracy theorist'.
-- pseudonym Mitha
We were there bringing the government’s own data to shine a light on the lies it so ceaselessly manufactured. These weren’t lies of omission, they were lies of commission. They were lies that were wrought by smelting the credibility of science and medicine in the fires of politics to create weapons wielded by the powerful against us. They literally called us terrorists for our opposition.
-- Emily Burns
The disingenuous refrains of 'safe and effective', 'rare side effects' and 'generally mild' are presented by public health officials as unquestionable truisms about COVID-19 vaccines, requiring no scientific data to justify them.
-- Dr. Roger Hodkinson
Let's not forget the outrage of lockdown and vaccine mandates was only made possible by stringent social media censorship. Now the regime is losing that weapon, they're terrified that such abuses of power will be harder to impose in the future. This isn't about hate speech, misinformation, bullying, or any other of the vacuous moral panics they contrive. It's about losing the power to impose and justify human rights violations which is what lockdown was. Losing the power to terrify the public into compliance and submission.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
When it comes to vaccine safety, let's examine the evidence, not demonize the questions.
-- Harry Rakowski
Some of us are listening, we have been for a while. Sadly, our populace is too fickle to apply a little critical thinking to what the media and political establishments feed them.
-- Matthew Gwynn
Unfortunately those you tried to educate were wrapped up in the MSM propaganda, believing everything they were fed, instead of using their own brain to think. The same people now who are too stubborn to even contemplate they may have been wrong.
-- Johnny Martin
In the spring of 2020, I tried almost alone to warn that the Government was making a grave mistake about Covid, over-reacting wildly like a man who burns down his house to get rid of a wasps' nest.
-- Peter Hitchens
When they say diversity, they really mean the exact opposite. They mean uniformity of thought. Everyone must think the same and accept their value system. A system ever so progressive and kind, that it requires relentless enforced compliance and never-ending indoctrination.
-- pseudonym Cosmic
The people declining the vaccine are the ones that have the most critical thinking, the most discernment — the strongest minds and bodies around us.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Politicians who support censorship of science are anti-science.
Journalists who support censorship of science are anti-science.
Scientists who support censorship of science are anti-science.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The continued coercion of this product can only be explained as psychopathic.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reminder to those asking for a meeting in my office. If your organization has a vaccine mandate, your request will be denied. I'm sorry that you work within an organization that's unscientific and eager to violate the basic human dignities of its employees.
-- Thomas Massie, US Representative
They went from 'we are the science' to 'please forgive us' awful quickly.
-- Spike Cohen
The MSM [mainstream media] wants a 'pandemic amnesty' after the brutal tyranny of lockdown period. They deserve a Nuremberg trial, not an amnesty.
-- David Kurten
After shutting down debate and declaring 'the Science[tm] is settled', the people in charge would very much like to proclaim 'we did the best we could; we didn't know any better'. But after ignoring the signals of harm while silencing their critics, there is no doubt they knew what they were doing.
-- pseudonym The Vigilant Fox
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other ... you've been had.
-- Michael Crichton
Now that we see how wrong the COVID 'experts' were on everything, those same experts are telling us that it's just time to move on.
-- pseudonym The Vigilant Fox
One way to heal the divisions after covid would be for all those who went overboard and incited hate, discriminated against or even wished death upon the unvaxxed, to apologize and tell us how wrong they were.
-- Maxime Bernier
'The science changes'. Yes, it keeps changing into things people said months ago and got banned for.
-- Clifton Duncan
I'm confused by the 'covid is not over' hashtag people. It's a highly infectious respiratory virus that will circulate forever as the other coronaviruses in common circulation do. We have no technology to rid the world of covid.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
For amnesty, all those culpable have to admit that they were wrong, there will have to be apologies, there will have to be criminal investigations in some instances. People need to be punished for what happened. How can you seek an amnesty when you're still doing that which you are presumably seeking an amnesty for?
-- Neil Oliver
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical assocations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.
-- Jessica Rose
Conformity is doing what everybody else is doing, regardless of what is right. Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
-- Jamie Sale
Common people will believe anything if they are frightened. But critically-thinking people will look for deception and find the truth through the smokescreen of fear. Listen to critical thinkers, not fearful reactors.
-- Dr. Suzanne Humphries
It's nearly 2023 and almost three years into the 'pandemic', they are STILL attempting to impose harmful policies based on political polling. Polling influenced by state-funded fear-mongering media completely detached from facts and scientific evidence. Endless feedback loop.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
-- Aldous Huxley
The excess deaths we've [been] seeing in the UK is the equivalent of a commercial airliner crashing every day ... since early spring. And there's hardly a whimper in the media or the government about it.
-- Morgoth's Review
There can be no doubt, that the immune status of a vaccinated person is fundamentally different from the immune status of an unvaccinated person. My heart goes out to the vaccinated people.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
The primary source of misinformation has been the federal government itself. It has used its power to control info. It has used propaganda techniques in order to destroy the reputations and careers of people who spoke out against.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
At the beginning of the pandemic, I was scared for about 10 minutes.
-- Dr. Martin Kulldorff
Remember when we used to treat colds and flu with chicken soup, saltwater gargles and warm tea instead of fascism?
-- pseudonym illuminatibot
They really are this stupid (Australia edition). Australia - 96 percent adult Covid vaccinated, 72 percent adult boosted - now fears it is heading into its fourth Covid wave this year. Which can only mean one thing - get another mRNA shot! Can't make it up.
-- Alex Berenson
Experts: The vaccine is safe and effective. Trust us. We know everything.
Also experts: We deserve Covid amnesty because we didn't know anything. We're also baffled about what is causing all these mysterious sudden deaths only in jabbed people.
-- pseudonym Milkmaniacal
They celebrated as people lost their jobs, education opportunities, and were denied access to amenities, medical care, and visitation rights. They demanded harsher discrimination and penalties. Same people now want to talk about 'be kind!' and love wins!'. Wicked people.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Alcohol and the Covid 'vaccine' are the only two drugs where people demand an 'explanation' for your abstinence. Our societies have a strange relationship with these two particular substances, but you don't need an 'excuse' to not take a drug.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
One of the media's greatest tricks is making fringe phenomena appear mainstream and common, whilst making mainstream phenomena appear fringe.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Don't take freedom for granted. It's fascinating how human societies naturally gravitate towards authoritarianism rather than liberty, and as a result we have to fight for freedom again, and again, and again.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
What we really have is a pandemic of those who can't admit they were wrong.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
The past 3 years has drastically altered my perception of people. When I walk into a crowd of 100 people now, I automatically assume that at least 97 of those people most likely have not the foggiest idea as to what is going on. I will never view people the same again.
-- Dr. James E. Olsson
I remember when governments offered weed, hookers, donuts, lottery tickets, and cheeseburgers as incentives for people to get the mRNA jabs. Are people still acting like all of this was fine, normal, and ethical? Or just pretending it didn't happen? We live through one of the goofiest times in human history.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Only in a country with fragile, hysterical leadership could the trucker convoy be regarded as an emergency justifying the infringement of civil liberties.
-- Bruce Pardy
Two years ago they couldn't wait to tell you how many were dying. Every single news bulletin, TV, radio and print. But in 2022, people are dropping dead everywhere and we hear nothing!
-- unknown attribution
It's weird watching people still direct their hate towards those who tried telling them the truth and not those who lied to them.
-- Ryan Rally
BC Government stopped reporting hospitalization data when:
1. 87% of hospitalized were vaccinated
2. 81% of ICU were vaccinated
3. 89% of deaths were vaccinated (77% triple vaxxed).
Never forget.
-- Dr. William Makis
Many people get ANGRY when you tell them the 'rona survival rate is over 99% for children and young adults.
1. This is a scientific fact
2. This is a VERY GOOD scientific fact
If reading this triggers anger, rather than relief, perhaps you are in a doomsday cult.
This is the first disease I've witnessed in my life, where masses of people WANT it to be worse than it actually is.
They crave the fear and the subjugation that comes with it.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
If we bribe or pay someone to have sex - it's prostitution.
If we tell someone they have to have sex and if they don't they lose their job - it's sexual harrassment and is a crime.
If we force someone to perform sexual acts against their will - it's sexual assault.
If we force someone to have sex without consent or they are incapable of giving consent - it's called rape.
What would you call it if we pay or bribe someone to get an injection?
What would you call it if we tell someone to get an injection or lose their job?
What would you call it if we force someone to get an injection against their will?
What would you call it if you were not given accurate information and did not have a chance to properly consent before getting an injection - to find out you were lied to?
I call it criminal - not worthy of amnesty - and something requiring accountability.
-- Sean G. Kaufman
Definition of insanity. Get vaxxed. Get boosted. Get COVID. REPEAT.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.
-- unknown attribution
A Danish study of 6000 showed there's no difference between a surgical mask and not wearing a mask.
-- Dr. Peterson Pierre
Also a prescient point; the reason we have systems in place to detect excess deaths in the first place is so when something is wrong we can detect it and investigate what is happening. For example, it may be that the water supply is contaminated. Yet we've had excess deaths for months and months across the West and no action is being taken by those in control.
I worked in the petro-chemical industry for years. If a machine overheats it triggers an alarm system, if no action is taken within a few minutes the machine will automatically cut-out. Yet, in terms of excess deaths, the alarms have been wailing for months and no action is being taken, the machine is not shutting down, despite the alarms the operators are carrying on anyway.
-- Morgoth's Review
Infection-acquired immunity is stronger than vaccine-acquired immunity. University presidents with vaccine mandates deserve the same respect as flat-earthers.
-- Dr. Martin Kulldorff
Covid Cultists won't give up. Now they want to force every schoolchild to undergo compulsory Covid testing. These people are insane - the Covid virus has effected their brains where rational and logical thought is no longer possible. They are also extremely selfish individuals, they don't care what hardships they inflict on others - as long as they think it makes THEM safe.
-- Craig Kelly
The world is engaged in the largest clinical trial, the largest vaccination trial ever.
-- Greg Hunt, Austrialian Health Minister
It's time to admit the experiment has been a catastrophic failure. The shots haven't stopped transmission nor infection. They haven't stopped people needing hospitalisation or dying. Instead they've let a trial of death of destruction - and the latest data shows the more times you've been injected the more likely you are to be infected. But sadly, having been tricked, many can't bring themselves to admit this.
-- Craig Kelly
[On injection manufacturer vaccine linked to blood clotting as determined by the US FDA] We warned you! Then you called us anti-science, anti-vax, horse paste eating conspiracy theorists who wanted to kill grandma and grandpa. Epic fail for dumb, useful idiot, government sheep.
-- pseudonym Ethical Skeptic
The mRNA injections are still on emergency us authorization because they'd be shut down within a week. This isn't about right or left, this is about right or wrong. When you have 1/800 SEVERE adverse events by [injection manufacturer's] own data, the harm ... is greater than the good. The risk-benefit, even for over 80s, is on the wrong side of the equation
-- Andrew Bridgen, UK Member of Parliament
The more you jab, the more likely you are to get covid!
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
We turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people ... we start demonizing people who don't agree with our particular health policies and turn them into monsters, turn them into pariahs, say they don’t deserve a hospital bed. It turned into 'you should f**king die' because you have not complied. That's incredibly dangerous. After I witnessed personally what was happening, I started to wonder more and more about what we were being told and whether it was true or not. I began to educate myself and open my mind to what was going on.
-- Tim Robbins
There is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well, so you're never going to get that kind of benefit from mandatory year-round masking as you would from making substantial improvement to indoor air quality.
-- Dr. Ashish Jha
People are suffering. They didn't do the testing they should have and they're still not doing the testing. It's like they don't want to know.
-- Ron Johnson, US Senator
Imagine releasing a product that doesn't properly do what you promised it would do. And then blaming the malfunction on people who did not purchase said product. Whilst telling those who bought it that they must buy it again every few months.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Why are people no longer bragging about being vaccinated? What changed? The science?
-- pseudonym DJ Freedom Rocket
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.
-- writers for Doctor Who, 1977
It's not a booster. It's the 4th shot of a product that already failed three times.
-- attribution unknown
Screamed at zero people, discriminated against zero people, wished illness upon zero people, killed zero people, and celebrated the death of zero people. Some people turned into demons. We remember. Shout out to those who didn't.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I never told a single person that they COULDN'T take the vaccine. It was always their choice to make - yet those that got vaccinated always seemed to think they had the god given right to tell me I MUST have it or there would be consequences and that says it all really.
-- Janey J.
Fear does help the loosening of etiquette and civility! This 2 years 'helped' society to reveal its true face! Kind of sad, unnerving and quite depressing! At least we got a glimpse of our true souls!
-- Vas Gaganis
I like that government makes it illegal for you to put certain chemicals and drugs of your choosing into your body. While simultaneously forcing you to put chemicals and drugs of their choosing into your body.
-- Dr. Sydney Watson
My name is John Campbell, I am a semi-retired clinical nurse, nurse lecturer, academic, researcher and author of numerous articles and two text books.
My specialisms are human physiology and pathophysiology, as applied to clinical practice. I have also produced many educational videos which are used extensively around the world.
In my view the UK health authorities should pause the current covid-19 vaccination programme, due to the risks associated with vaccination.
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I therefore consider that the UK government authorities should pause the current covid mass vaccination programme, until a full, population scale risk / benefit analysis is carried out, and published for free and open peer review.
-- Dr. John Campbell
The problem is, we are dealing with a brainwashed cult that 'believes' in the vaccines with a religious fervour. For the cult, pulling the vaccines from the market is the equivalent of admitting they've been praying to a false idol.
-- Craig Kelly
Every time a [politician] or clueless 'media personality' accused me of 'spreading misinformation' they'd never point out exactly what I'd said nor provide any evidence that why what I said was wrong. 'Misinformation' was just used as a slur to shut down debate - a debate they knew they could never win. The reality is when the prostituted media accuse someone of 'misinformation' what they really mean is an opinion that contradicts the narrative of Big Government and Big Business. A free and open democracy cannot survive if this is allowed to continue.
-- Craig Kelly
The more shots, the higher your rate of COVID infection. So, wouldn't it make more sense ... that people who got the shots can be terminated?
-- The Naked Emperor's Newsletter
Not gonna comment on the football injury out of respect for the family. But I can't help but notice a lot of people whining about 'anti-vaxxers' being mean for talking about it are the same people who breathlessly posted every article of an unvaccinated person dying of COVID.
-- Jesse Kelly
Claims of vaccine success built on modelling, not actual data, is not science, it is science fiction, it is marketing propaganda, it is fraud.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Swine flu vaccine (1976), 1 serious event per 100,000 vaccinees, Vaccine withdrawn.
Rotavirus vaccine Rotashield, (1999), 1 to 2 serious events per 10,000 vaccinees, Vaccine withdrawn.
Covid mRNA vaccines, 1 serious event per 800 vaccinees, Vaccine officially promoted.
Using publicly available data from [injection company] and [injection company] studies, we found one serious adverse event for each 800 vaccinees.
-- Dr. John Campbell
China's Covid nightmare is the final proof: lockdowns were a total failure. Sweden's refusal to impose compulsory shutdowns has now, by contrast, been completely vindicated.
-- Matt Ridley
With all the horrible stories I hear about, including from people I know, I’ve never been so convinced I took the right decision not to get the 'vaccine'. It should never even have been offered to people in good health under 70.
-- Maxime Bernier
This is a new religion. It's exactly like a religion. It's dogmatic, it's absolute. If you do not believe in it you are condemned to hell. Maybe this is a new religion.
-- Tim Robbins
In the absolute best cast scenario, the vaccines do not protect you from COVID and are basically snake oil. Even if this were the only problem with them and they were no more harmful than any past vaccine, it would still be evil to mandate them or hold people's livelihoods over their heads for not taking the snake oil. That being said, it doesn't take a genius to guess that vaccines created with novel techniques and employing a novel mechanism of action would pose unique risks. Published research is beginning to bear this out.
-- pseudonym RemnantPoster
I'm going to be very clear about this. The vaccine is killing people - and it's killing large numbers of people.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Attempting to force-vaccinate the whole world with an untested, unsafe technology amounts to criminal negligence.
-- Ramesh Thakur
Professor Karl Popper was the hero of scientific and logical inference, and basically he [touted] the Black Swan hypothesis. Essentially if you take the hypothesis that lockdowns and masks are effective, well Sweden destroys that hypothesis single-handedly. Now I hasten to add we have nearly a hundred papers and analyzes now that looked at all
countries, [and] all counties of America, and came to the same conclusion. So we're as close to a scientific proof now as you can get that lockdowns and masks are simply ineffective. That's a Black Swan that breaks the hypothesis that lockdowns and masks are effective. That's it.
-- Ivor Cummins
[The 16th positive, statistically significant, controlled trial that finds ivermectin is HIGHLY effective in PREVENTING Covid-19 -- Dr. Pierre Kory]
And yet we still have those with weak gullible minds, so ignorant of the evidence and so easily influenced by propaganda that they have been fooled into believing that there's 'no evidence' of the Ivermectin's effectiveness against Covid and that this Nobel Prize winning medicine is 'horse paste'.
And these people think they are more 'enlightened' as they line up (double masked) for their 5th shot.
Perhaps it’s Darwinism at work?
-- Craig Kelly
The phrase "we need to do something" historically causes the wrong thing to be done.
-- Phil Nichols
The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading. See right away, I've got to say, this pisses me off - I see these headlines all the time. The pandemic didn't do that; the way we handled the pandemic did that. The pandemic certainly was a thing, but let's just not say the pandemic.
-- Bill Maher
Imagine being so weak minded and easily influenced by propaganda that you've been tricked into thinking the medicine considered second only to penicillin in terms of improving human health is a 'horse dewormer'. But sadly, and tragically, that's the mindset of today's leftists - the same group that religiously worship the Covid vaccines ... and that double-masking will save them - and farcically they actually think they are more 'enlightened'.
-- Craig Kelly
Don't outsource your thinking to other people. 'Experts' are frequently wrong (and often paid to be).
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I've gone from a position where you think our leaders have our best interest in heart to now wondering, really, where the heck some of these decisions are coming from.
-- Dr. John Campbell
The problem of excess deaths around the world is still there, and I'm going to be looking at ... the fact that these excess deaths ... occurring across the age ranges. From younger people, middle-aged people, older people all are dying at a greater rate than you would expect compared to their peers. And I am not happy with the degree to which this is not being investigated
around the world, so I'll be giving some tips on how health authorities could do this, and trust me it's not difficult. These things have been known for a long time. It really is quite bemusing why we're not hearing more about this.
-- Dr. John Campbell
Terrified politicians just wanted to do something. I wish they'd be a little humble, accept that they don't know everything.
All of us have different values about safety versus freedom. Life's better when we individuals get to make our own decisions.
-- John Stossel
C19 wasn't actually as deadly as we were told. Not by a longshot. In fact, it was damn near identical to the flu.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
This new paper finds that free spike protein is circulating in the blood of vaxxie myocarditis victims. This shows how the mechanism used by the vaccine is totally different from the mechanism of the virus itself. And it also proves yet another claim from the early vax rollout to be a lie; they told us that the free spike would remain at the injection site rather than circulate in the body.
The endless cope in the comments shows you exactly how much of a bubble these people live in. They needed a study to tell them something that I and many others predicted would happen all the way back when the quaccines first came out. Even back then there were studies detecting lipid nanoparticles in various bodily organs, away from the injection site. The LNPs are carrier particles for the mRNA. Soooo... What else could we have expected to happen?
-- pseudonym LeakyVax
New paper by ... the most cited physician in the world. Pre-vaccination infection fatality rate of Covid was much lower than that of seasonal flu for those under 60 years old. There was no pandemic. They destroyed the world over nothing.
-- Dr. Eli David
Ah yes, the "personal choice" of being threatened into taking an experimental gene therapy injection with unknown long-term side effects and proven short-term side effects that include death.
-- pseudonym RemnantPoster
Two years ago, they couldn't wait to tell you how many died. Tickers and death count on every news station and front page of every paper. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. Today, people are dying suddenly everywhere and we hear nothing.
-- pseudonym Shipwreck
For months on end the [Australian state] Covid Weekly Data Overview published by [Australian state] Health clearly showed that the quadruple vaccinated were more likely to end up in hospital or the ICU with Covid. The data made a mockery of the narrative, and exposed the claim of 'safe & effective' as a total lie. So what has the [Australian state] government done to fix the problem? They now hide the data on the vaccine status of those hospitalised, in ICU and that died with Covid that used to be published in their weekly reports.
-- Craig Kelly
The ethical basis for medical treatment is informed consent. In the case of the covid 'vaccine' there was deliberate misinformation and omission of facts, manipulation and coercion. It was fundamentally immoral.
-- Maxime Bernier
I'm sick and tired of the deliberate 'anti-vaxxer' smearing of decent folk who throughout their entire lives have been pro vaccination, but have done their research and decided that the Covid vaccine wasn't for them, or indeed raised questions over it. It’s defamatory and wrong.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
I've wondered why an illness caused by an ever-evolving virus, that is supposedly genetically distinct from its viral predecessors and said to cause different symptoms than other viruses or variants have caused, is still widely presented to the public as 'Covid'.
Like other marketing campaigns—only more so—countless money and boundless effort went into building the 'Covid' brand. In order to incite fear, Government/Media/Pharma had to set 'Covid' apart from centuries of respiratory illnesses experienced by those infected by other coronaviruses.
Politically and economically, it's been extremely useful to perpetuate the Covid franchise. Keeping some people scared of Covid helps to sustain the perpetual State of Emergency —oxymoron intended— and all of the Covid-linked government oppression and subsidy schemes that depend upon the myth of crisis.
If, instead of referring to 'Covid', Government/Media used all of the various variant names, the public might eventually figure out what they should have known in March, 2020: we've always lived among evolving respiratory viruses that briefly sicken many people but don't seriously threaten anyone who’s healthy.
Government/Media/Pharma have seared 'Covid' into the American consciousness and terrorized people by grossly exaggerating Covid's lethality. They aggressively suppressed criticisms of the attendant scam. By repeatedly saying 'Covid' and 'Pandemic', they weaponized these words in order to pacify and control the masses.
Fear of Covid is the opiate of the people.
-- Mark Oshinskie
If there is one thing that people should have learned from the pandemic, it is that the more control government takes over our day-to-day lives, the less we have of everything that makes life worth living.
All this panic for a disease with an infection fatality rate similar to the flu (even lower than the flu, for children) as was established early on by John Ioannidis of Stanford University.
Mainstream media outlets reported case counts and death counts in serious tones of dismay every day, without any context or comparison to standard death rates and the impact of respiratory diseases in years past. Emotional abuse of the public was rampant. Illogical fear, driven by a hyperactive media, and by cowardly and controlling government leaders and public health authorities ruled the day.
The Covid-19 pandemic response was not based on sound medicine or science, and was not commensurate with the actual threat of the illness. Even if Covid-19 had proved to be as lethal as it's falsely claimed to be, violating human rights and depriving individuals of personal autonomy are never the appropriate response to a pandemic. We must never let this happen again.
-- Lori Weintz
It's also been revealed that a lot of people don't value freedom and liberty perhaps in they way we thought that they did, or people claimed to. I've always had a suspicion that really people value safety and security, or at least the illusion of it, more than they value freedom and liberty. And that's really, really proven to be the case. In everything that's going on, every government overstep, every bit of authoritarianism, or outright tyanny. What's the justification for it? 'For the greater good, for your health, for your safety'. That's always the justification even when they're clearly, clearly going way, way, way beyond that.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.
-- Terry Pratchett
Some of us weren't in the dark about covid and therefore have nothing to apologize for. And despite not being a scientist, or a doctor, or an epidemiologist, or an immunologist, I was able to conduct my own research but interrogating the actual available data. The coronavirus, covid19 appeared to have a 99.97% survival rate, which was in line with the regular flu. So why did we shut down the world for that?
The populace were terrified by fearmongering propaganda on the mainstream media, that was based on obviously-flawed science to anyone who took like 10 minutes to investigate further.
Tragically, most people blindly trusted their governments, and the so-called science, and the experts without question or further scrutiny. Some of us had the temerity to disagree with the television, do our own research.
Everything about what we endured was anti-human. It was pure cold, malicious evil. It was totalitarian, insidious, manipulative.
There is no two sides to the story; there is one side that picked on the victims. There was a vocal group of covidian cultists who bought into the covid lie, who relished in the persecution and othering of dissenters. They were the useful idiots of the regime.
-- Dave Cullen
I'm not in favour of this medical bullying and medical apartheid which people are pushing for.
In a crisis, whether it's real, manufactured or imaginary, it forces people to play their hand.
This situation has given people an excuse to be a-holes and to act as if they're doing it for some greater good, and it's no, you're just being a jerk. It has nothing to do with a virus. You can now get away with that kind of behaviour and still pretend you're the good guy.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
It forces people to show what their character looks like when they're tested by adversity. And some people just do not know how to handle it.
-- Joe Rogan
What we have here is tribal zealotry. [Television personality] needs to make up a reason to justify why he has gotten multiple vaccinations but is still getting sick and still wants to get more vaccinations.
-- Tim Pool
Boy the narrative sure did change a whole lot as to what we were supposed to get out of these vaccines.
-- Tim Pool
The mental gymnastics these types have been going through to avoid saying "I was wrong" is impressive.
-- Vyxel OP
The best thing about being a conspiracy theorist is not developing myocarditis.
-- unattributed internet
Record excess deaths in most western countries in 2022. This is not due to Covid, but a man-made catastrophe, the result of disastrous public health policies.
-- Dr. Eli David
Why are the 'fully vaxxed and boostered' people so angry with the unvaccinated? They believed vaccines were safe and effective, and now learned they are neither. They should be mad at FDA, CDC, and [Director of NIH], not the unvaccinated.
-- Dr. Eli David
Everything that has never caused heart attacks in the past began causing heart attacks in 2020.
-- Robert John
There is nothing wrong in making mistakes. What is wrong is not correcting them.
-- Ayn Rand
If all these 'sudden deaths' were in the unvaccinated population it would be on the news 24/7.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
While there are conflicting data, with some studies even finding mask mandates associated with increased mortality, what is indisputable is that the claimed benefits of mask mandates never manifested in the data.
Remember how state governments around the world, including state governments in the US, threw out decades of research into pandemic response and instead resorted to extreme authoritarian measures that had no scientific basis, and how they ridiculously did so in the name of 'following the science'?
There was never any scientific evidence supporting these executive orders by clueless governors. The CDC and others later produced studies trying to provide ex post facto justification for them, claiming they work, but the CDC’s attempts in particular were excoriated. To put it another way, the CDC’s 'science' followed its policy rather than its policy following the science.
Other studies have found mask mandates to be associated not merely with no effect but with worsened outcomes. Regardless of how plausible one considers the hypothesis that mask use results in increased viral loads for the wearer and thus increases the risk of severe disease, what is indisputable is that the claimed benefits of mask mandates never manifested in the data. These government interventions remain today, as when they were first implemented, unsupported by scientific evidence.
Perhaps if so-called 'public health' authorities would stop just talking about following the science and start actually doing it, their policy recommendations wouldn’t be so, at best, useless.
-- Jeremy R. Hammond
The same crowd that said '...if we can save one life it's worth it...' doesn't give a s**t about people suddenly dropping dead.
-- Ian Smith
Stanford Researchers found that C19 had a median Infection Fatality Rate of 0.034% for people under 60: 'a shockingly low fatality rate to close down the planet, sacrifice children's educations, and keep people from their jobs for not having a vaccine'.
-- site: Daily Clout
Australians were once prosecuted for claiming face masks worked against viruses. Businesses faced [huge] fines for making [that] claim during the SARS outbreak.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bulls**t does.
-- Terence McKenna
Is it really difficult for them to see the presence of the same dark forces in the US government’s insouciant abrogation of the Nuremberg principle relating to informed consent and medical experimentation? Are they not troubled by the fact that the experimental vaccines that were sold to the population on the basis of their ability to stop infection do not do that? Or that this was known to anyone who read the FDA briefing papers published when these injections were unleashed on the public?
Does this count as a major “propaganda problem” worth looking into?
Do they care about the millions of people who lost their jobs over these lies?
Being the great sleuths of information-hiding that they are, did it raise any suspicions in them when [a drug manufacturer] sought to keep all clinical information relating to the vaccines under wraps for 75 years?
-- Thomas Harrington
I'm filming this video to share my strong conviction that at this point in time, all COVID vaccination programs should stop immediately. They should stop because they completely failed to fulfill any of their advertised promise regarding efficacy. And more importantly they should stop because of the mounting and indisputable evidence that they cause an unprecedented level of harm, including the deaths of young people and children.
-- Retsef Levi
The problem is we are dealing with a brainwashed cult of vaccine fanatics that will never accept how dangerously wrong they were, how they failed to follow the science and the evidence and were duped.
-- Craig Kelly
It's a living nightmare. We have to endure two years of constantly sharing basic information that should have stopped the injections, see it all get ignored, then watch the very people who ignored us present EXACTLY THE SAME INFORMATION as if it's only just come to light.
-- Bob Moran
At this point, every public health agency - local, national, international - that asserts that community masking is effective in controlling covid community spread, has revealed itself as incapable of scientific reasoning on this topic.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
City, state and federal officials lied again and again to the public about the efficacy of numerous COVID interventions including masking, social distancing, school closures and vaccines.
This completely wrecked their credibility on medical issues in general — and vaccines in particular.
In short, the public-health establishment earned a ton of distrust. America needs a trustworthy public-health establishment, but getting it requires some kind of truth-and-reconciliation commission, with significant firings and massive, unflinching and public mea culpas from city, state and federal health departments — and reforms aiming to ensure they never make the same mistakes again.
-- New York Post editorial board
The much more important point was that the "vaccine" was rolled out without long-term testing. Therefore one of two conditions applied. Either no claim could be made with confidence about the long-term safety of the "vaccine" or there was some amazing scientific argument for a once-in-a-lifetime theoretical certainty concerning the long-term safety of this "vaccine." The latter would be so extraordinary that it might (for all I know) even be a first in the history of medicine. If that were the case, it would have been all that was being talked about by the scientists; it was not. Therefore, the more obvious, first state of affairs, obtained: nothing could be claimed with confidence about the long-term safety of the "vaccine."
Given, then, that the long-term safety of the "vaccine" was a theoretical crapshoot, the unquantifiable long-term risk of taking it could only be justified by an extremely high certain risk of not taking it. Accordingly, a moral and scientific argument could only be made for its use by those at high risk of severe illness if exposed to COVID. Even the very earliest data immediately showed that ... the overwhelming majority of the population was not in the group.
Given the lack of proof of long-term safety, the mass-"vaccination" policy was clearly putting at risk young or healthy lives to save old and unhealthy ones. The policy makers did not even acknowledge this, express any concern about the grave responsibility they were taking on for knowingly putting people at risk, or indicate how they had weighed the risks before reaching their policy positions. Altogether, this was a very strong reason not to trust the policy or the people setting it.
-- Robin Koerner
To generalize the last point, a supposedly conclusive claim by someone who demonstrably cannot justify their claim should be discounted. In the case of the COVID pandemic, almost all people who acted as if the "vaccine" was safe and effective had no physical or informational evidence for the claims of safety and efficacy beyond the supposed authority of other people who made them.
-- Robin Koerner
The unvaccinated were the winners.
-- Scott Adams
The common retort is to insist that the COVID-19 vaccines were not "experimental." This appeal seems a little desperate — a grasping at straws.
In medicine, there's no substitute for time, and when COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out to the public, there were no long-term studies into their impacts. Though it is said vaccines protect the most vulnerable from severe disease, many of the claims made about the vaccines' effectiveness proved to be wrong, and many adverse effects in younger populations have manifested. People seem to want to pretend that the scale of the experiment — hundreds of millions the world over — somehow renders it not an "experiment."
What's most revealing is that so many vaccine apologists ignore whether these vaccine mandates meet the definition of "coercion."
-- Rav Arora
Most of the people eager to declare this amnesty are the ones who contributed to that misery. Now, they've just realized they got it wrong. Even so, I have some level of sympathy for those who were consumed by fear and acted accordingly. I have no sympathy for those who peddled and promulgated that fear. To this day, the only emergency was the cessation of civil liberties at the hands of the [Canadian] government. Never forget the ones who vilified people for choosing not to be vaccinated. Never forget the government that maligned those who dared criticize it. Never forget that the prime minister suspended civil liberties because he refused to admit his failures. For them, we need accountability, not amnesty.
-- Andrew Lawton
The panic is over. Those who went too far in so many ways have a lot of confessing and apologising to do.
-- Peter Hitchens
If the government has to tell you there's an emergency, there isn't one.
If your government has to tell you your rights aren’t being violated, they are.
-- Andrew Lawton
Most thinking people are beginning to learn that our response to the virus was a series of dangerous mistakes.
-- Peter Hitchens
Now that establishment media is catching up, from a 'scientific' perspective, none of this was justified. However, even if it had been 'scientifically justified', there was absolutely no justification to stomp on civil rights. Freedom is not a scientific calculation.
-- Kate Wand
It's a big brutal being two years ahead of the curve. Some people lost their jobs over the nonsense of 2020. Still waiting for an apology.
-- Aaron Kheriaty, MD
No matter if the virus was natural or manufactured, the experiment data is in and the worlds population can be scared, bullied and forced into submission. Beyond just submission. Some will become overzealous enforcers.
-- pseudonym supernaut
Deep down, everybody knows that none of this stuff made sense, nor was it effective in a positive, tangible way. All the mandates, policies, hysteria, confusion, and fearmongering did (and will continue to do) is cause more harm than good. And continue to erode trust in our institutions and fellow human beings.
A small minority of us said this all the way through and we received scorn, insults, discrimination and even ostracisation for voicing concerns and asking reasonable questions.
The real question is whether people have the honesty and fortitude to accept they wasted 1-2 years of their life. Oh, and pretty much everybody still got the rona regardless. That was predictable.
If people don't learn from this then it is guaranteed to happen again. Don't just pretend that we didn't live through this, and that people did not behave how they did, and say what they said. We all remember what happened.
P.S. If you got sick or lost somebody to this particular illness, then that sucks. My condolences. It still does not mean all these measures were justified nor righteous. They didn't even work. People get sick and die every day. It's been happening forever. It's just usually not advertised. We cannot control everything. Welcome to reality and the human condition.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Humans are addicted to doomsday narratives. I've noticed that sometimes people WANT things to be worse than they are, so their neuroticism and paranoia will be vindicated.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
It turns out that these masks that we wore for such a long time are actually completely useless. As indeed are these paper ones that we also wore for a long time. They don't seem to do anything at all according to the data.
-- Dr. John Campbell
Muzzles did exactly as intended, scare the sheep into taking the shot.
-- Kevin Talbot
There's nothing wrong with being wrong. To err is human. It becomes a problem when you choose to stay wrong. To deny error is willful blindness. New information is an invitation to question old opinions. The faster you are to recognize your mistakes, the less wrong you become.
-- Adam Grant
It's amazing how many people would prefer to coerce others than to tolerate the freedom of others in exchange for their own.
-- Bret Weinstein
'Do something' is not science, and it shouldn't have been public policy. And the people who had the courage to say as much deserved to be listened to, not treated with contempt.
-- Bret Stephens
Governments, pharmas and media should have admitted the vaxx was experimental, there was a risk taking it, and it was up to each of us to decide. Instead they blatantly lied about its efficacy and safety, coerced everyone to take it, and demonized and persecuted dissidents.
-- Maxime Bernier
Substituting 'hope' for science in regards to public health policy is no way to run a country.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
No government anywhere in the world has released accurate data that is stratified by age group and vaccination status. This is because they all intuitively know that the vaccines are not helpful. They don't want that data out because it would increase vaccine hesitancy and also make them look bad.
-- Steve Kirsch
It's not that [US Director of NIH] and company got the facts about immunity after covid recovery wrong. They used the vast power of the government to censor and marginalize those who go the facts right.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Florida saw a 1,700% increase in adverse event reports after COVID-19 vaccinations. Does that sounds safe and effective? I didn't think so either.
-- Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo
The covid lab leak theory was plausible. Masks were useless. Lockdowns didn't work. The vaxx was not safe and effective, and no better than natural immunity. And those who said we were conspiracy theorists for believing all this were the real covidiots.
-- Maxime Bernier
Covid 'conspiracy theories' proven right:
- the virus came frmo a lab leak
- its mortality rate is same as flu for most people
- masks are ineffective
- vaccines don't prevent infection or transmission
-- Dr. David Martin
Vaccines do not stop transmission.
-- New South Wales Premier
How are they ever going to explain the excess mortality data in Australia? Australia didn't have a lot of COVID deaths until after they rolled out of the COVID vaccines. Now excess deaths are out of control.
-- Steve Kirsch
When vaccine mandates started rolling out both provincially, for entering restaurants and other establishments, and federally, for things like boarding a plane, you could see a shift in how people were feeling.
Suddenly, our big old country that celebrates diversity was expected to be entirely the same on one driving issue.
Here we had a leader [Canadian Prime Minister] who had no issue creating an environment of intolerance for anyone who did not fall into line. And to make it worse, his MPs and supporters started doing it, too.
It wasn't long before you couldn't log onto social media without seeing the clear and evident divide that was cutting through the population. We had a whole group of people who felt extremely comfortable telling other Canadians they should be prevented from accessing services, stripped of their health care and everything in between. A government that had pledged to crack down on online bullying was making it acceptable for Canadians to harass their neighbours for making a different medical choice.
-- Jennifer Laewetz
Approximately Zero. Masks make no difference in reducing the spread of Covid, according to an extensive new review by Cochrane - the gold standard for evaluating health interventions.
We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero. The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither surgical masks nor N95 masks have been shown to make a difference in reducing the spread of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
This verdict ought to be the death knell for mask mandates, but that would require the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the rest of the public-health establishment to forsake "the science" - and unfortunately, these leaders and their acolytes in the media seem as determined as ever to ignore actual science. Before the pandemic, clinical trials repeatedly showed little or no benefit from wearing masks in preventing the spread of respiratory illnesses like flu and colds. That was why, in their pre-2020 plans for dealing with a viral pandemic, the World Health Organization, the CDC, and other national public-health agencies did not recommend masking the public. But once Covid-19 arrived, magical thinking prevailed. Officials ignored the previous findings and plans, instead touting crude and easily debunked studies purporting to show that masks worked.
-- John Tierney
[Ivermectin] A drug that's on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines. And for them to have the gall - to have the sheer audacity to just out and out lie to people about what a medication is.
-- Joe Rogan
The science on COVID, on the lockdowns, on the mitigation measures, on a whole host of topics. If the public was listening, they would hear this idea that there was this univocal conclusion that you had to do lockdowns, you had to wear masks, you had to socially distance, you had to put plastic barriers up, you had to close schools. You had to do all of these things ... that the vaccines would stop transmission of the disease, that therefore it was warranted to force people to lose their jobs over them. All of these ideas were sold as if there was a scientific consensus in favour of them.
That was a lie. There was never a scientific consensus on almost any of the topics.
On masks, in fact the pre-existing idea among most scientists before the pandemic was quite the opposite direction. What happened was a relatively small group, a cartel almost, of very powerful scientific bureaucrats took over the whole apparatus of science, at least as far as the public eye was concerned, dominated the media, dominated the message to politicians. As a result we had a catastrophic response to COVID and we're going to be paying the cost of that for a very long time.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The thing about forgiving people that were so mad and they called people who wouldn't get vaccinated 'plague rats'. There was fake narratives like 'they're the reason why the variants are coming about, because of these unvaccinated people'. Which is completely the opposite of what the science shows. That is just a normal part of vaccinating people during a pandemic. Geert Vanden Bossche ... he is a vaccine expert and he was talking about how the standard model is you never vaccinate during a pandemic.
-- Joe Rogan
Now we know for sure that our leaders lost their heads over Covid. There can now be no doubt that the strangling of our society in 2020 was just as mad and stupid as I said it was. It failed to stop the spread of Covid. Our economy was wrecked, the national work ethic was destroyed, our liberties were shredded and the NHS crippled, probably permanently. Even now jobs are vanishing and businesses closing as a result of it. The education of the young was trashed, and the lives of the old made so miserable that many gave up and died. I have never seen any policy so obviously wrong from the start.
-- Peter Hitchens
This is what I was talking about about just having integrity. It's scary, it's shocking how we found that there are so many people in the media, at pharmaceutical companies, big business, politicians, whoever it is, who are completely ok to just lie.
These people won't correct themselves. They won't accept any type of error, go back on anything.
Lying's not a mistake. There's a big difference between making a mistake; huge difference between being wrong and lying.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
There's no outrage because the vast majority of people were complicit. They'd rather we all just ignored what happened and moved on, simply because they don't want to confront their own moral and intellectual weakness.
-- Stacey A.
One thing I learned over the last several years is just how stupid a staggering percentage of people are. Giving MORE power to any government is a terrible idea, no matter which country you're in.
-- (pseudonym) Human
What is unquestionably certain is that we have A LOT of cowards who complied and are still stubborn and proud to believe government has their best interest at heart. You can't fix stupid, it's chronic.
-- (pseudonym) DonReality
In a democracy, indeed in any ethical and free society, the truth is essential. The American people need to hear the truth — the facts, free from the political distortions, misrepresentations, and censorship. The first step is to clearly state the harsh truth in the starkest possible terms. Lies were told. Those lies harmed the public. Those lies were directly contrary to the evidence, to decades of knowledge on viral pandemics, and to long-established fundamental biology.
-- Dr. Scott Atlas
My beef from day one with the Covid response was that they lumped everyone together. You could see from the early data even in March/April 2020, the high risk people were elderly, those who had a pre-existing condition, and those overweight. Instead they treated a 10 year kids the same as a 91 year old grandparent. It totally contradicted the data and showed they were never following the science.
-- Chris Olivo
Renowned vaccinologist and viral immunologist, Dr. Byram Bridle, broke down [drug company]'s 6-month clinical trial update ... and the results are eye-opening: no death benefit, increased adverse events and fraudulent data manipulation.
-- Gord Parks
Clinical trials are supposed to be statistical comparisons. They are designed to compare the outcomes in the group receiving a novel product with the outcomes in the group receiving a placebo. The resulting statistics are then used to decide if the product is safe and effective.
This statistical approach also makes sense for new products. This is because, with a novel product, we don't know how it affects the human body. So, to avoid bias or speculation, a cold, hard statistical comparison is deployed.
This is why, if more people died in the vaccinated group than in the placebo group in [drug company]'s clinical trial, the FDA should have pulled the plug on this product.
Yet, when more people died in the trial after vaccination than after placebo, did the FDA pull the trial? Nope. Instead, it let [drug company] explain away the deaths.
-- Aaron Siri
The BBC conspired in the campaign of fear that kept Britain locked up. Ministers and the broadcasters treated fighting the virus like a war - justifying the shutdown of all dissent.
It wasn't about science, it was about politics. That was obvious as soon as the government began talking about following The Science as if it were a fixed body of revealed truth. Nobody who knows anything about science could say such a thing unless they were engaged in a deliberately misleading campaign of public coercion.
The sheer absurdity and pointlessness of so many of the restrictions on normal life should have given the game away: this programme was designed to frighten not to inform and to make doubt or scepticism appear morally irresponsible - which is precisely the opposite of what science does.
-- Janet Daley
We have a baby formula that kills a couple of babies and the entire product is removed from the market. And here you have all of these deaths being reported and no one is doing anything. I've never been more terrified in my life.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
I don't trust people who regularly use the terms 'misinformation', 'disinformation', and 'hate speech' unironically.
Not because they have no meaning at all, but because they are typically used to silence discussion and justify censorship.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
This pandemic showed me a side of humanity that I'm never going to unsee for the rest of my life. I knew humans were capable of great evil, but I didn't realize how easy it would be for 90+% of people to be cool with perpetuating a mass killing and disabling event.
-- pseudonym anxiouscatmom
Almost every single 'public health' intervention that was made on the part of the US gov was wrong.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
There's been so much subterfuge around the whole Covid issue. There was great amount of emphasis on getting rid of anything else other than the vaccine. They were just villainized: 'all these things, it's just terrible stuff, you can't do it'. And yet, we now know that those things could have saved many, many lives; people who died unnecessarily.
And then the way that doctors and scientists were silenced who didn't agree ... anything other than what the government said ... were misinformation providers, and should be shut down. And big media ... all these people colluded in doing this. Why were they doing that? That is a huge question.
-- Dr. Ben Carson
It turned out that Covid's mortality rate was less than 1/10 of those early reports. In retrospect, I should have been more skeptical. It's hard to believe that I trusted the government too much, but there you are. Well, lesson learned.
-- Glenn Reynolds
What the COVID-19 pandemic showed is that the flow of information, which may be the single most vital resource in the supply chain, is utterly broken. In many cases, it was actively undermined by senior public health officials.
-- James Folcik
A pandemic of fear was deliberately created for the purpose of compliance. Compliance with lockdowns, face masks and with a jab which has the worst efficacy and most horrific side effects of any pharma intervention in the history of medicine. If we don't wake up now we never will.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Either the thing is true, or it isn't. If it is true, you should believe it, and if it isn't, you shouldn't. And if you can't find out whether it's true or whether it isn't, you should suspend judgment. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful, and not because you think it's true.
-- Bertrand Russell
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein
A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get.
-- Ian Williams Goddard
It's hard to tell yourself you've been taken for a fool, but open your eyes.
-- Neil Oliver
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
-- Thomas Sowell
What our so-called leaders and their henchmen in the media did over the past
three years was abuse our trust to the point where it's gone.
-- Neil Oliver
What was done in the name of covert was grotesque a violation of the rights of billions of people.
-- Neil Oliver
I've always considered myself to be about as mild-mannered as they come. Obedient to rules, respectful of authority. If you told me a few years ago that I'd be censored here in the UK for asking questions, I'd have scoffed. But here we are, and here I am; like so many others, increasingly subject to censorship online. Too many broadcasters and journalists in this country - those inclined to speak up about blatant wrongs by authority - have simply being silenced.
And far too many have been willingly and enthusiastically complicit in the slavish transmission of Parliament's message and the suppression of contrary views. And yet three years later, in all manner of silenced views, those that were called misinformation or ridiculed as conspiracy theory have been proven correct after all. Scientists, doctors, and other health professionals; a handful of journalists, people from all walks of life had their reputations trashed, their livelihoods destroyed, and yet they were right all along. But still the censorship and silencing goes on.
-- Neil Oliver
Stupidity ... is not in short supply. We will need decades to review the unimagined stupidity of both the actions and words of elected politicians and 'journalists' for just the last three years.
-- Thomas Paden
You know the virus will come roaring back. That was one problem lockdown advocates failed to foresee. To a remarkable extent, frightened people (the British were deliberately and professionally frightened by Government psychologists, remember) fell in love with their corona captivity.
-- Allison Pearson
In Sweden, it's even written into the law that the health care should be driven by evidence-based medicine and that was so quickly left behind in other places.
-- Anders Tegnell
For the powers-that-be, COVID virus+lockdown (problem+solution) is the perfect tool to use against the public.
It can be invoked, threatened, implemented, revised, expanded, revoked, reintroduced... Sometimes the analyses of the virus will make sense, but they don’t need to. Sometimes the uses of the lockdown will make sense, but they don’t need to. It is all entirely at the whim of the government, because the media will ratify whatever decisions it makes as perfectly justified and proportionate, and completely in line with established precedent, even though there are so many contradictions along the way that there is no established precedent!
A [skin colour] rally without masks is safe, because [bulls**t]. A Remembrance Day parade with masks is unsafe, because [bulls**t]. You think this doesn’t make sense? Well, you just don’t understand science.
The virus is endlessly malleable as a “problem”, the lockdown endlessly malleable as a “solution”.
Never have so many been so controlled so easily.
-- pseudonym Millennial Woes
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
-- Theodore Dalrymple
Throughout the pandemic ... the vaccines attained an almost exalted status that ensured any critics - no matter the quality of their evidence – were unfairly disparaged. Some fault must lie with a too credulous, incurious mainstream media, naive to ... political and financial forces.
At the very outset, compelling entire populations to take a scientifically novel vaccine, produced on a political timetable, against a disease that for the bulk of people was a bad cold, was a highly questionable policy, arguably trashing traditional medical ethics about informed consent.
Yet even as it became clear throughout 2021 and 2022 that the experts pushing vaccine mandates had been wrong over and over again, "safe and effective" remained the mantra.
Governments and experts insisted vaccines stopped transmission when they clearly didn't, even though [drug company] later admitted it hadn't even studied that question.
There was never a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." Breakthrough cases were never "rare." Indeed, by 2022 it was clear that a big chunk of those dying from or with Covid-19 had been boosted. It remains an awkward fact that far more people have died from or with Covid-19 since the vaccine rollout (which targeted the most vulnerable groups first) than before, a weak prima facie case for a supposedly “highly effective” vaccine.
Warning signs were flashing bright red about safety all along.
Social media performed abysmally too. The latest batch of Twitter Files revealed a systematic effort by US government-funded NGOs to remove even true stories of vaccine injuries. In an Orwellian twist of history, any posts throughout 2021 that warned of vaccine passports, mandates, or argued for natural immunity were removed.
-- Adam Creighton
An abundance of studies has shown that the mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous.
-- Astrid Lefringhausen
Amazing how we don't need science to inflict demoralising measures, but do need it to lift them.
-- Faux Pas
I have young children in my class at school wearing masks, and even when outside playing. They're fearful of breathing the air. Absolute tragedy what we've done to our precious children.
-- Sarah Walker Beach
The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
-- Mark Twain
It's remarkable how many people believe themselves intellectually superior for repeating what authority tells them.
-- Steve Patterson
It's so sad that fear caused most people to rush out and get that jab that was experimental! I never got jabbed nor my husband and 3 adult kids, we all had Covid and survived. Our other family members that had the jab have had Covid over and over, my mom has declined in her health since. This is a crime against humanity.
-- Missy Sue
Their performative outcry wraps itself in the cloak of the morally righteous. They act like they've got the moral high ground, when nothing could be further from the truth.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Public health authorities betrayed science during the pandemic, and their credibility suffered.
-- Mark Smith
If people are controlling truth then really it's ... if we don't have science, if we can't talk about science, if we can't openly
debate science, as is not possible at the moment in Canada, then then where are we? Who is the arbiter of truth? Does it become political opinion? It really is quite frightening.
-- Dr. John Campbell
As a Canadian, I'm horrified at how easy it was for the government and main stream media to trick the public and how punitive they were towards anyone who disagreed with their transparent narrative. It will be even easier now as they've just passed a new law that will allow the government to censor online content.
-- Nicole [unknown]
Such a sad world where 'authorities' (real and self-proclaimed) are allowed to disallow honest questions and basic research by labeling it 'misinformation'.
-- B Barr
Deep down, everybody knows that none of this stuff made sense, nor was it effective in a positive, tangible way. All the mandates, policies, hysteria, confusion, and fearmongering did (and will continue to do) is cause more harm than good. And continue to erode trust in our institutions and fellow human beings.
A small minority of us said this all the way through and we received scorn, insults, discrimination and even ostracisation for voicing concerns and asking reasonable questions.
The real question is whether people have the honesty and fortitude to accept they wasted 1-2 years of their life. Oh, and pretty much everybody still got the rona regardless... That was predictable.
If people don't learn from this then it is guaranteed to happen again. Don't just pretend that we didn't live through this, and that people did not behave how they did, and say what they said. We all remember what happened.
P.S. If you got sick or lost somebody to this particular illness, then that sucks. My condolences. It still does not mean all these measures were justified nor righteous. They didn't even work. People get sick and die every day. It's been happening forever. It's just usually not advertised. We cannot control everything. Welcome to reality and the human condition.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The Australian people were initially told that mRNA injections would stop them getting infected with Covid, would stop them spreading it, and most importantly would stop them dying from it. We were told that we were selfish if we were not willing to be vaccinated and that we could kill grandma or kill grandpa. Around 97.5% of Australians over 16 followed the government advice and have had at least one dose of mRNA injection, yet the only data that accurately identifies the vaccination status of those who got Covid [...] showed quite clearly that the vaccinated are more likely to be infected, hospitalized, and die of Covid.
-- Ralph Babet, Australian Senator
Do not call it SCIENCE if you aren't allowed to question it. Call it a BELIEF SYSTEM. Call it a RELIGION. Call it a CULT. But stop calling it SCIENCE.
-- Talia C.
We live in an age when a high public health bureaucrat can, without irony, announce to the world that if you criticize him, you are not simply criticizing a man. You are criticizing "the science" itself. The irony in this idea of "science" as a set of sacred doctrines and beliefs is that the Age of Enlightenment, which gave us our modern definitions of scientific methodology, was a reaction against a religious clerisy that claimed for itself the sole ability to distinguish truth from untruth. The COVID-19 pandemic has apparently brought us full circle, with a public health clerisy having replaced the religious one as the singular source of unassailable truth.
The same priests of public health that have the authority to distinguish heresy from orthodoxy also cast out heretics, just like the medieval Catholic Church did.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Much has changed in science since the pandemic and much of it is change for the worse. The pandemic has highlighted the loss of credibility of the public health establishment and the often toxic nature of current public discourse. John Ioannidis stands out as perhaps the best example of a fine scientist who was smeared and denigrated mercilessly both online and in the literature. There was also a flood of fraudulent papers and badly flawed studies. This made claims that we should follow the "The Science" almost laughable, given the extremely poor quality of much of the science. The use of coercion was inexcusable when there was no rigorous basis for it.
It is blindingly obvious that the spread of viral epidemics is riddled with unknowns, is a badly ill-posed problem and models will all be wrong, and mostly badly wrong. Yet modeling played a significant part in motivating the policy response to Covid19.
The list of issues where pseudo-science was used to make decisions is long. Mask mandates, lockdowns, school closures, vaccination recommendations, vaccination requirements for employment or university attendance, and travel restrictions. The public was often bullied and/or manipulated into compliance based on fear and/or media generated panic.
-- David Young
From the outset, [the US NIH Director's] entire COVID mitigation strategy was based on an experimental vaccine rushed to market under the branding 'warp speed'. There had never been an mRNA-approved vaccine before, and now it was being pushed non-stop from the White House podium with the full support of the pharmaceutical industry.
It was always highly illogical to deploy a static vaccine toward a mutagenic and constantly changing coronavirus. Then came the checks the vaccines couldn’t write. [The US NIH Director] told us they would stop transmission. He implored us to 'follow the science'.
Today, the science is clear: the COVID vaccine does not prevent transmission or contagion of the virus.
In my private practice, I have treated more than 500 patients suffering injuries from the vaccine, I have seen the unintended -- but brutal -- harm they’ve often caused up close and personal. Yet to raise any of these issues is to risk one’s livelihood. That is [the US NIH Director's] greatest stain on our country.
[The US NIH Director] fostered an environment where doctors who deviated from the preferred party line were persecuted and even criminalized for offering a different point of view. Silencing free expression and thought is the antithesis of America, and dangerous for science, innovation, and medicine.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
They weren't 'moving at the speed of science'. They were skipping the science.
-- pseudonym JoeCensored
Even the most widely accepted scientific theory is never beyond being questioned. And being challenged that is the nature of science. As opposed to religion, dogma, or ideology.
-- Rowan Dean
We keep being told that X number of scientists agree with this or that theory ... but it was Galileo Galilei, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, who overturned centuries of consensus, dogmatic thinking who said quote, in questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual, end quote.
-- Rowan Dean
It was Carl Sagan, another great thinker, who pointed out that, quote one of the saddest lessons of history is this - if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge even to ourselves that we've been taken. And Sagan said once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. And Sagan also said if we can't think for ourselves; if we're unwilling to question authority, then we are just putty in the hands of those in power.
-- Rowan Dean
No one is more anti-science than a person that says 'the science is settled'!
-- pseudonym Stooge McDuck
It's a worldwide phenomenon of people making probably, which will turn out to be if they're analyzed properly, the wrong decisions about the same issue at the same time. I might have to get some new conspiracy theories, because all the ones I had before have been proved right now.
-- Andrew Bridgen, UK Member of Parliament
Unlike you regime sycophants, not everyone just swallows the legacy media narrative without question. Not everyone is conned by your phony moral high ground posturing. Not everyone is happy with the monstering and demonization of [people]. Not everyone is disconnected from reality.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Science has progressed through a uniquely productive marriage of human creativity and hard-nosed skepticism, of openness to new scientific contributions and persistent questioning of those contributions and the existing scientific consensus.
-- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Skepticism is the highest of duties, and unverified belief the one unpardonable sin.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
Leading publications throughout the pandemic especially ... have gotten things completely wrong. On lockdowns, masks, mandates, vaccines, etc. They have gotten these issues so wrong. Misleading the public.
-- Rav Arora
I just find it incredibly sad. The fact that family and friends told you you were selfish, stupid, uneducated. It's also quite scary to realise how so many people can be fooled and made to take part in the victimisation of others.
-- pseudonym Janie45
People who tell you that the science is settled about ... COVID vaccines... Once you say that the science is settled, this disqualifies you as a scientist. Scientific truths are provisional. Epistemic humility is a hallmark of a real scientist.
-- Gad Saad, Professor
What's amazing too is how many just lap up the conditioning instead of questioning the coercion. Today's knowledge is only as good as the next discovery.
-- Paul Bulas
Given the choice between socialism and liberty, I would prefer to be free than managed, and take my chances.
-- Bruce Pardy
The never-perfect and then further declining efficacy of the mRNA vaccines gradually seeped into the public consciousness in late 2021 and throughout 2022. First, it became clear they didn't prevent infection and transmission. Later, widespread belief that they at least prevent hospitalization and death also began to erode when Covid-19 hospitalizations increased among the vaccinated.
The much-heralded 'bivalent' boosters - meant to fight two variants at once - had an even shorter half-life. Among several key datapoints, the positive finding in a study by the Cleveland Clinic of its 51,000 employees that the boosters 'afforded modest protection' was essentially negated by its conclusion that the greater the number of vaccine doses, the greater the risk of contracting Covid-19. Least at risk were those with zero doses. In other words, the mRNA jabs had less-than-zero efficacy - they were worse than useless.
-- Margret Kopala
I'm not by nature an activist, but every aspect of lockdown just fills me with ... it has nothing to do with science, it's damaging to the poor, it's damaging to kids in ways that public policy never ought to have done. And we did it out of ignorance and fear and hubris. Sweden - the all-cause access deaths in Sweden - is something like three percent; it's among the very, very lowest in all of Europe. Sweden did not lock down. And they have lower mortality than lockdown Germany, lockdown UK, lockdown France, even lockdown - I think they've now surpassed Finland and Norway. It's almost no excess deaths. Imagine that. Imagine if we'd followed a policy like Sweden. We could have avoided all the harms to our children, we could have avoided all the suffering caused by the lockdowns, the the closed businesses, the unemployment, all of that, the economic harm. And still protected our people better from Covid.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The lockdowns were a mistake.
-- Peter Robinson
Seemed wrong and evil at the time and three years later it's confirmed, it was wrong and evil.
-- (pseudonym) Grateful Dawgs
I'm shedding a tear just coming to terms with the level of incompetence we were subjected to while knowing the truth, and then weathering the level of hostility from those that could not see it.
-- (pseudonym) shank2340
Why did some people know immediately it was all lies? They used common sense.
-- Margaret Frassrand
This study is the first all-encompassing evalution of the research on the effectiveness of mandatory restrictions on mortality. It demonstrates that lockdowns were a failed promise. They had negligible health effects, but disastrous economic, social and political costs to society. Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times.
-- Professor Lars Jonung
Quite incredible really and should we have been, should I have been more critical of governments at the time. Obviously. But that was the only data we were getting. This is why trust has been destroyed. We trusted governments, we trusted our chief scientific officers, we trusted our chief medical officer. And that trust I'm afraid has been destroyed. And the implications of that are massive.
-- Dr. John Campbell
When it comes to COVID, epidemiological models have many things in common: dubious assumptions, hair-raising predictions of disaster that miss the mark, and few learned lessons.
-- Professor Steve Hankey, Johns Hopkins University
Real science embraces debates. Cults, on the other hand, evade them.
-- pseudonym user-sy2jy1si8f
[It] appears to have been a form of motivated reasoning (which I call covidization) that over-emphasized the benefits and necessity of Covid interventions and downplayed their risks and societal costs. Covidization has meant that people were much more willing to accept greater multidimensional societal harm for hypothetical benefits against the virus. This should support a higher level of healthy skepticism about simplistic narratives and technocratic governance that aim for unrealistic goals presented to the public as urgent moral imperatives.
-- Kevin Bardosh
If you supported mandatory lockdowns, banning people from going outside, restricting people from seeing relatives, forced face coverings, mandatory injections, segregation, mass censorship, and/or denying healthcare to people, don't lecture us about 'human rights'.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
You've got to love the ever small-bore nature academic minds, don't you?
They are able to endlessly parse the possible deleterious effects of experiments on human subjects when serving on college Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), and can engage in spirited debates about the ethics of one of the world's most famous and telling psychological experiments more than fifty years after the fact.
But when it comes to using their exquisite training to look at what is, by far, the largest experiment on human subjects in history (the lockdowns and vaccine mandates) — one that clearly violates the core ethical tenets of informed consent and medical necessity, not to mention the US laws governing the administration of EUA products and the EEOC guidelines on the use of coercive incentives to achieve vaccine uptake — they mostly have nothing to say.
But even more troubling, if that is possible, is their widespread failure to recognize and harshly condemn what has been, in effect, the staging of a massive new version of the Milgram experiment in our time, wherein government officials, the media and medical experts actively and quite blithely encouraged the infliction of pain upon those citizens who were simply uncomfortable with being forced to take highly experimental drugs with no proven track record or safety history.
The list of ways Milgram-like "teachers" – who voluntarily supported the drive to inflict pain (social, financial and otherwise) upon those with the temerity to maintain their intellectual and moral integrity in the face of a clearly manufactured crisis – is nearly infinite.
But looking around and listening to people today, it's as if none of it ever happened. No significant apologies have been issued by anyone in charge.
-- Thomas Harrington
If the 'medical professionals' that are so angry at this apparent misinformation aren't willing to debate, why would I believe them?
-- pseudonym cormoran2303
When they say, 'don't debate conspiracy theorists.' What they really mean is, avoid debating truth seekers because your lies will be exposed.
-- pseudonym efardette
He who speaks the truth is not afraid to be questioned. He who lies is afraid to be questioned.
-- pseudonym tootunedout
COVID-19 and the response from our so-called leaders worldwide has forever changed humanity.
-- pseudonym chadsisk1244
Psychopaths don't apologize, they double down!
-- A Mishel
It seems people don't know how to think critically anymore.
-- Nathan Wilkins
Imagine being on the wrong side of history while it repeats itself. Like failing an open-book test.
-- Kevin Sorbo
All totalitarian governments work under the principle that they are doing everything for the common good.
-- Infographics Show
Seeing those nurses dancing triggered a deep, ancestral loathing and hatred for my government and for the pharmaceutical industry I haven't felt since 2020.
-- Jason Uerkvitz
I lost all trust and respect for the medical 'professionals' during the covid dance party of 2020.
-- pseudonym deadhouse3889
Even the East German Stassi never dreamed of a time when people voluntarily leave their jobs and stay home or be turned in by their own neighbours and those that could leave had to wear something that defined you as a follower of the rules and carry a tracking device allowed to those who had done as the regime dictated!
-- John Bolt
I always found the dancing nurses phenomenon a bit creepy, in hindsight, it's downright sinister.
-- Alex Mac
Time to ramp up production at the fear factory again! Gotta get the population scared, staying in their homes and compliant. Lock me down harder, Daddy!
-- pseudonym nebula0024
The ones asking to be left alone are not the extremists. The ones demanding everyone comply or get locked up are the extremists.
-- unknown attribution
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.
-- George Carlin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-- Mark Twain
It's terrifying that only those people capable of independent thought can see what's happening.
-- pseudonym Stadsjaap
What protection? The vaccine ended up not preventing anyone from getting Covid or transmitting it. Also, there is not enough data yet to know the long term effects of the vaccine. So what mother with intelligence and love for her baby would want to risk its health with something that was experimental just a few years ago? I have to question the integrity of any doctor who would tell a mother that it's OK.
-- pseudonym Jake
Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.
-- James Randi
People think I'm nuts for questioning everything. I think you're nuts for trusting everything.
-- Tara Rogers
How do you tell who's telling the truth? The ones trying to silence other people are the ones lying.
-- attribution unknown
'Trust the science'. I do trust the science but coercion is not science. Censorship is not science.
-- attribution unknown
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
-- attribution unknown
They [UK politicians] partied because they knew that Covid didn't really pose a danger and that the lockdowns were totally unnecessary. The outrage shouldn't be over 'rule breaking', the outrage should be over the [political party in power] imposing unconstitutional and completely unnecessary restrictions on the lives of British people.
-- Mark Collett
Prior to facemask mandates as an alleged preventive for Covid infection and transmission, such masks were infrequently worn in hospitals and other medical facilities. They were only used in operating theatres or for visiting seriously ill patients in order to prevent infection from spit or droplets into open wounds or to partially protect visitors from acquiring and transmitting pathogens more dangerous than Covid. ...for decades, if not longer, staff wearing medical masks were an uncommon sight in health care facilities other than as mentioned.
No studies were needed to justify this practice since most understood viruses were far too small to be stopped by the wearing of most masks, other than sophisticated ones designed for that task and which were too costly and complicated for the general public to properly wear and keep changing or cleaning. It was also understood that long mask wearing was unhealthy for wearers for common sense and basic science reasons.
There has been an international flood of lies about mask wearing in order to justify the bizarre and disturbing situation we have today of almost everyone wearing masks.
-- John C. Carleton
The unnecessary and greatly exaggerated fear during the first few months of this pandemic ... has been manipulated to continue to this day, unlike past experiences with similar virus outbreaks. There have been numerous lies fed to the public by the WHO, national and regional government leaders and health bureaucrats and the media and many other institutions – all certainly for the purpose of maintaining fear until the large majority of the public has been injected with the poorly tested, unnecessary and dangerous Covid vaccines for which we have no evidence of their long-term safety.
-- John C. Carleton
47 studies confirm ineffectiveness of masks for Covid and 32 more confirm their negative health effects, especially for young children, who are at almost zero risk of Covid harm.
-- John C. Carleton
This cumulative academic research shows that the collateral damage of the pandemic response was substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people in the years ahead. Societal harms should challenge the dominant mental model of the pandemic response: it is likely that many Covid policies caused more harm than benefit.
This should support a higher level of healthy skepticism about simplistic narratives and technocratic governance that aim for unrealistic goals presented to the public as urgent moral imperatives.
-- Kevin Bardosh
The policy and media response to Covid-19 that contaminated the collective psyche. It began in government, where the initially unknown nature of the virus caused those in power to catastrophize and embrace an apocalyptic archetype. They concocted the 'safest' solution in the form of lockdowns. The media, eager to stoke fear because it generates clicks, jumped on board. Together, these two corrupt entities stomped out rational thought, ignored data, and generated an hysterical response to a virus with 1.1 percent death rate in an extremely narrow demographic. They gave birth to mass psychogenic illness (MPI) in the populace, which has proven – and will continue to prove – catastrophic for America and the world.
-- L. Matthew Meyers
There was no ... moral struggle among the Covid-19 authoritarians. They refuse to acknowledge that every single element of their public policy choices and communications were completely wrong. They refuse to admit that they engaged in nonsensical rules that stripped individuals of their civil rights, and effectively forced Americans to be injected with an experimental drug that was leaky and non-durable, that appears to increase the likelihood of contracting the virus when injected multiple times, and whose safety appears increasingly in question. The science regarding the injections was faulty. The authoritarians refuse to accept responsibility for these moral transgressions. Indeed, they justify it and imply they'd do it the same way again.
-- L. Matthew Meyers
There's now too many lies to easily debunk. Key take-away the lies ... are still being told today. The damn liars have simply worn us down. I could debunk every one of those bullet points, but I'm growing tired of writing the same rebuttals over and over. Even if someone does debunk these whoppers, these people are going to keep lying ... and keep telling us what to do. The only conclusion I can make is that - especially regarding topics that might involve 'life and death' - people, for some surreal reason, simply want to keep believing the liars. Most people in the world must feel 'safer' believing lies.
-- Bill Rice Jr.
The insanity of having to enter a restaurant with a face diaper but then taking it off five feet away when sitting down to eat was the height of insanity!!!
-- Pete Sequeira
I will never forget ever, in my entire life ... people cheering and calling for the deaths of people who didn't want a vaccination.
-- Cody Lawler
You can see how they pulled this off. They easily fooled the people incapable of critical thinking, and they aggressively attacked those capable of critical thinking to the point of threatening their livelihood if they refused to comply. It was a diabolical plot that worked well enough and which they seek to repeat apparently. Obviously, only people of the worst kind of evil, totally devoid of empathy, could plan and execute such a plot.
-- Michael Rapson
[On masks including N-95] There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop. Makes no difference — none of it. There's no evidence that many of these things make any difference.
It's more likely than not that they don't work. This is not just against SARS-COV-2. We're looking at interventions over 78 trials over 50 years. The whole review is over half a million participants in these trials. Now the underlying problem that we've got there is that people are drunk with certainty. They're told that something works, end of the story. That's not science.
-- Dr. Tom Jefferson
Years ago, vaccines were produced over a period of years and actually prevented the disease from affecting the human body, as Polio, Measles, Tetanus etc. Now the medical profession and pharmaceutical are using the word vaccine for medicines or experimental drugs that are not preventing the spread of a particular disease and possibly causing fatal side effects.
-- pseudonym dexterdog
Well AFTER the two original vaccines and then two boosters, I had Covid THREE times so far in the high risk group of over 80. Hard to follow the science and be convinced that I need another vaccine. Seems my own immune system needs to be left alone now.
-- pseudonym JWD
The Covid-19 response included several of the worst things that ever happened in the history of humanity: isolating children (causing learning disabilities), quarantining healthy people (for the first time in history), forcing people out of work and not be able to earn a living, and mandating experimental medication are some examples - not to mention isolating family members and forcing the infected into facilities with the most vulnerable. That wasn't merely wrong, it was evil.
-- pseudonym Tommy Shamrock
The 'vax' doesn't kill the virus, prevent the virus or prevent the spread of the virus. Separately, there is no empirical data that supports the claim it reduces symptoms.
-- pseudonym Basket
When they said the centuries old science of natural immunity wasn’t a thing but I was to trust the months old “science” of Big Pharma without question, they lost me.
-- Bob Mader
I think the fear to danger ratio in the recent disease panic was way out of proportion. My trust in the medical and pharmaceutical industry has been eroded.
-- pseudonym oilhammer
This is about ethical, evidence-based medical practice.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Activists have been defining the terms of the debate, branding experimental public policies with value-laden language that convinces people they're worth supporting before anyone's had a chance to assess them on their merits.
-- Ginny Roth
Being suspended [on social media] really means you won the argument. The only reason for suspension is the other side knows they can't win the debate.
-- wtk6069
[May 4, 2023, after pandemic declared over worldwide and the needless, insane, coercive damage done]
Researchers are still learning about the ways the shots may affect people's health.
-- Alice Park, Time Magazine
I wouldn't tell people to assume that the consensus is correct, nor would I tell them to assume that what somebody's saying ... is wrong. You just have to be very cautious, you have to be very skeptical, and really fact check, and really do your homework with information that you're getting. The danger, I feel, is when people see something ... and just jump headfirst. If the person seems very credible, if the person seems charming, or if the person is just rapidly going through information that the viewer isn't familiar with ... it's impressive, they go wow, this person knows a lot. Scientists and doctors, we make a lot of mistakes, we have areas of ignorance, we're not perfect either. Challenging a doctor is a good thing, asking questions is a good thing. Going home and then reading up and making sure that what you heard aligns with the evidence, this is good. I try to encourage my viewers to always do that... . Don't just trust me. Go through the evidence, listen to other people, and see if what I said is right or not. Challenge me with information that seems contradictory. I think those are all good mindsets, as long as we're all in a headspace of healthy skepticism. I think the question is, how do we cultivate this mindset of skepticism so we don't fall for the first thing we see, or the first thing we want to believe, right?
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
I had a significant problem with the severity of the health measures. My problem increased when it came to light that the measures were all based on huge mistakes at best and/or outright lies at worst.
-- G. Smith
I don't think they fully comprehend the level of harms done due to irrational fear and hatred, or even the very bad understanding of relative risk.
-- Daniel Schegh
We have this idea that science is about precision and certainty. That we can run a scientific experiment and prove something beyond all doubt. But in reality, the opposite is true. Most, if not all sciences deal in uncertainty. In biomedical science - biology, medicine, public health - we're never 100% sure. Instead, the scientific process is about approximation - a gradual reduction of uncertainty.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
The diktat of this caused me not being able to hold my first and only grandchild, to not being allowed in family's homes and to be excluded from shops and restaurants, it was even suggested that I should see a therapist because of my 'misplaced fear of the vaccine'! I actually burst out laughing at this last point. In all of this, I am proud that I never gave in to this utter abuse of our human rights. [Certain people at least did] thorough and diligent research into this worldwide farce.
-- Jeannie Marsh
Thankfully we hear almost nothing from [Director, US NIH] these days, but it's stunning to be reminded how he presented every drop of BS with such authoritative urgency.
-- Paul Massey
There may not always be a straight answer to every question. Anyone who tells you that something is totally amazing and has no downsides will always be lying.
-- The Infographics Show
This is the big problem. You don't want politicians making these decisions because ... they don't ask the question: 'is this what's best for people?', they ask the question: 'is this what's best for my political prospects?'. They're not making the strictly meritorious medical decision. In this case, they made an absolutely bone-headed decision by pursuing this broad policy.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
The [US CDC] is a useless agency ... lost all credibility. Any agency that says you ought to mask 2-year-olds with a cloth mask except when they nap has to be full of people who are just grossly incompetent. I mean you have to be tremendously stupid to think that that policy could have a benefit. You have to be catering to anxiety and irrationality rather than evidence. To simultaneously not run any randomized trials on these questions of masking speaks to their poor management.
I just want to also point out, that they're going on tv and actively misleading the American people; they're selling this vaccine; and worst of all, they actually are trying to silence people who disagree with them.
They're taking an absurd view, and they're simulteneously trying to censor anybody who doesn't hold that absurd view. That's just crazy. This is not science.
You take mediocre scientists, you empower them by politicians, and then you curtail any scientific debate. It's a terrible situation.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
Any organization ... that actually in the heat of the pandemic - they actually said - you need to put a 2-year-old kid in a cloth mask - and that was enforced by Federal law - 2 and 3 and 4 year-olds. In a cloth mask ... except for when they take a nap all in the same room on mats next to each other, in the same enclosed air, but other than that they have to wear a cloth mask .... Anybody who ever said that is a total moron, and you should never trust such a moron. Because you really have to be absolutely braindead to ever think that could possibly help. That's the level we're talking about here.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
The Covid inquiry should be treated as severely as the people of this country were treated by the government during the Great Panic of 2020-2021. All involved should be told to go home and stay there. It is perfectly obvious that they are not interested in any serious consideration of the possibility that the whole thing was a ghastly mistake, made in a condition of outright panic by people unqualified to run a parish council.
The minds which were closed at the start of the panic are still as closed as ever. The establishment, who turned a drama into a crisis, who bankrupted the country, wrecked the education of millions of children and students, mangled the NHS and launched the biggest attack on personal freedom in modern times, have learned nothing and remembered nothing from the disaster.
-- Peter Hitchens
The cost-benefit makes sense? Ridiculous. To talk about cost-benefit, you have to know benefit. You can't just make up benefit. [The CDC] doesn't have that evidence. When you don't pick the best scientists, you don't get the best scientific decisions. When you don't pick people who believe in generating evidence, you're not picking scientists, you're picking political shills. A good scientists says well there are points on both sides, but let's think of the study that will settle it. That study is multiple randomized control trials.
Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't know the first thing about medicine, they don't know anything about medical history; they're just arrogant.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
It's easy for people to hear vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, and just think vaccine good, vaccine good, vaccine good. And vaccines have been good. Some vaccines have been tremendous! However, all medical products are different. Think of the reason, the indication, the level of evidence, the actual risk .... You have to use your brain. You can't just think vaccine good, vaccine good. That is what, honestly, a dumb person thinks. But sadly, there are a lot of such people ... they really regress back to these very simple heuristics.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
Uncounted numbers are dead or ill after taking state-sanctioned meds marketed as vaccines. Every day there's more evidence to challenge the advertising slogan about safe and effective, but still the jabbing continues. In other news, thousands of excess deaths worldwide are recorded every day, which is to say more people are dying than ought to, with no investigation and no explanation of the cause. The death toll of those who might otherwise have been expected to be alive is the equivalent of a fully laden passenger plane crashing in the UK every day. It's statistically accurate to say the United States lost more people in the 18 to 45 age group after a year of the vaccine rollout then that Nation saw fall dead in Vietnam in a decade. But you'd have to look hard to find that bold fact in the archives of the mainstream media.
Ingredients in the products pushed as vaccines are known to pass to babies via their mother's milk, but no one seems to mind very much about that. Heart attacks harvest callow boys on the field of play; otherwise healthy people die in their sleep; has disrupted menstruation for half of all women that took the jabs, sampled by one Norwegian study. Think of that.
-- Neil Oliver
Not sorry to say that ... using the background that I have in what's called 'evidence-based medicine'. Where you have to turn associations around into prospective clinical trials before you make a conclusion or a practice policy to make a treatment.
-- Dr. Eric Westman
When the vast majority of their models proved completely at odd with observable reality, they simply doubled down.
-- Thomas Harrington
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd.
-- Bertrand Russel
The ones asking to be left alone are not the extremists. The ones demanding everyone comply or get locked up are the extremists.
-- unknown attribution
After having been so deeply, consequentially, predictably wrong, the Coronamaniacs deserve not only to be metaphorically beaten down but to be chased as they run away like the mindless, arrogant bullies they were.
-- Mark Oshinskie
The spring 2020 spectacle of wildly shifting statements from public health officials and political leaders, its blizzard of decrees and edicts, proliferating 'mandates,' haphazard changes of direction, imposition of seemingly arbitrary rules, public chaos, and sheer aura of panic – sweat-drenched faces, bulging eyes – might lead any citizen to believe that governments had never planned for or faced an emergency. The promiscuous use of 'unprecedented' to describe Covid-19 only added to this feeling. In fact, Alberta had a thoroughly designed, tested and previously deployed emergency plan. It just chose not to use it against Covid-19. This bizarre and gravely damaging decision has still not been explained.
-- Barry Cooper
I can't decide if I'm more disturbed by the sheer evil that was at play in every aspect of this, or that so many people fell in line and fell for it all. When it all looked like complete lunacy, I was sure people would see right through it, but they didn't.
-- pseudonym gigih2169
There is hardly anything more stupid and dangerous than putting important decisions in the hands of people who don't have to pay a price for being wrong.
-- pseudonym gearoidt6761
What number will suffice? How high must it go? How many dead? When will we - a supposed civilization - say enough is enough? Around the world, the number of excess deaths in aftermath of the covid pandemic ... and the roll-out of the products marketed as vaccines, keeps rising, cycling ever-upwards ... surely declaring something somewhere is dangerously wrong. We are in fact ignoring planeloads worth of extra deaths. Ask nothing, say nothing. Instead the extra thousands fall unnoticed, or at least disregarded as inconvenient truth by the authorities, nominally charged with our wellbeing.
Are these numbers - these bald statistics in front of our faces being reported worriedly or angrily by mainstream news? Are our politicians gathering hurriedly and en masse to ask questions and seek answers? Is 'the science' under pressure to explain what's happening and thereby turn back a deadly tide? Like me, you know the answers to those questions is a resounding 'no'.
And so I ask again: how many dead will be enough? Which number?
-- Neil Oliver
The claims of tens of millions of lives saved was based not on real world data, but on mathematical modelling. The paper was dismissed as 'no more than an opinion piece', as all work based on mathematical modelling must be. And yet its declaration about millions of lives saved went around the world and back again, eagerly quoted by countless politicans, physicians, and mainstream media. Other websites carrying the findings of other mathematical modelling and statistical analysis by credible and esteemed scientists that find nothing less than the absolute contrary ...
that calcuate numbers of deaths after the roll-out of equivalent magnitude, equal and opposite to those claims of lives saved. Why trust one set of figures from matehatical modelling or statistical analysis - broadcast and repeated to this day - while simultaneously ignoring and refusing to discuss others drawing alternative - indeed diametrically-opposed conclusions? Why isn't all of this freely, openly and honestly discussed without prejudice by those notionally committed to saving lives? As I understand it, that's a big part of how 'science' is supposed to be done.
-- Neil Oliver
Covid can be a nasty virus for some, but so can flu.
-- Mark Dolan
The people who governments have successfully manipulated into fear driven narratives ... have unwittingly already sacrificed their freedom for a false sense of safety. To them, dissidents have become a threat and governments have become parental figures and those who have successfully been manipulated are counting on those parental figures to force dissidents into compliance.
-- Matt Beaton
If you want to take the jab, you should be able to. If not, no one should take your job or freedoms as a result. This is the arrogance of the pro-vaccine community towards people who didn't take the jab. Being pro-vaccine in many cases is more than just a choice, it's a mindset you try to force on others.
-- John Simmons
I've seen the very raw figures, and they are quite worrying because there's excess deaths of the younger people going on, not just in the older population. This is something that's highly unusual and highly alarming. This excess death started and correlates with the vaccine program. So it doesn't mean to say it's associated, but why hasn't it been looked at? There is a groupthink that thinks and accepted it's very good, that it's safe and effective. I was trained as a clinical scientist to look at the facts, and to constantly change my opinion depending on the facts.
-- Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology
Do you not find it odd that the flu basically disappeared during covid?
-- Viva Frei
This is just plain evil. But I find it amazing that folks still are blind to what had happened and continues to occur.
-- pseudonym Echo_blu
How anyone can go on TV and claim it is safe and effective with next to no data to support the claim and be proven wrong within a couple of weeks is insane.
-- pseudonym simonw3858
Even if you wanted the shots and don't regret getting them, you still were not giving [sic] informed consent for them.
Being informed means you were given all the information about risks, benefits, alternatives, and were under no coercion to accept them.
They did not give us the absolute efficacy. They reported a relative value.
They censored side effects.
The government and news organizations through pro-vax propaganda influenced perceptions and decisions.
-- pseudonym FiatLuxGenesis
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
-- C.S. Lewis
I remember reading about propaganda in history books and thinking 'wow, it's so obvious, nobody would fall for it today.' Boy, was I wrong.
-- unknown attribution
People are out there, hating us for not living in fear. What a time to be alive.
-- unknown attribution
The mass censorship of doctors and scientists who oppose the c−19 regime is proof that it was never about 'following the science.' It was always about propaganda and power. When regular people resist they say 'you're not a doctor,' when doctors resist they silence them.
-- unknown attribution
Decisions which were overwhelmingly wrong .... We suspended the precautionary principle. We ignored the fact the interventions may cause more harm. We suspended the need for medical trials. We suspended all sorts of safeguards that have stood society in good stead for a long time.
-- Miriam Cates
If the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms is to have the priority called for by our Constitution, the courts, in particular, need to be directed by law to give more weight, not less, to the expeditious protection of constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms during a time of emergency. These include: strengthened protection for freedom of expression, academic freedom and professional freedom; explicit protection against prejudicial profiling by the state and discrimination based on medical status or history; and explicit guarantees of the right to informed medical consent and the right to freedom of choice with respect to medical procedures.
-- Preston Manning
My lessons: Governments can be callous. Covid taught many Canadians that governments will, for political reasons, be less than truthful, autocratic, and become bullies. And toss aside any rights and freedoms you think you have. That professionals who are speaking the truth are "walked over" and caused to "shut up".
Legacy media failure to be objective: The Convoy youtube media taught me, that the legacy media will, for political and financial reasons, be less than truthful, and will propagandize at a drop of a hat, mimicking the language of a PM who rants.
Some non scientific advisory of health department: It also told me that government health departments act in non scientific ways. And so their advice must be viewed with some scepticism.
-- James Collins
The pandemic period was when authoritarianism became normalized. Initially, well, you have to stay indoors because you're protecting other people. There's no evidence that it protects other people; there's no evidence that social distancing works. The whole argument fell apart and I think helped us to recognize that what neoliberalism in the form of this peculiar new form of leftism was masking was authoritarianism, a desire to control, a desire to signal virtue rather than practice principles and actual virtue.
-- Russel Brand
We live in the world where the truth must be explained again and again, while a lie is often blindly believed.
-- pseudonym BotschafterZissel
Absolute risk reduction is not a good measure of efficacy of intervention if it is an intervention in a disease that changes prevalance.
-- Roger Sehuelt, MD, Pulmonologist
I remember being in the hardware store picking up tools here in the US when over the intercom they had advertisements saying how if you want to save your grandkids, get the shot. It is absolutely disgusting what they did. I fear the impact will be felt for generations.
-- Lance Bennington
Covid is a perfect example of why government power should be limited with zero exceptions. And why 'experts' and institutions should never be blindly trusted.
-- Angus Sharp
Science is on its death bed. Lies, specious argument and fraud abound in a variety of scientific endeavours including the treatment and vaccines for Covid-19. Managers and politicians have taken over where previously the scientists were in charge. They have been able to utilise the bizarre language and contradictory processes of political correctness, making themselves into the high priests of a new religion, one which spawns more politically correct managers and despises experts.
-- (unknown attribution)
Alleged scientific certainty is today being scandalously exploited to serve a perception of truth.
-- Sir Richard Dearlove
We are following the science was the strap line that led in the UK to a national catastrophe from which we are still recovering.
-- Professor Karol Sikora
Censorship is never needed to protect the truth, but it's often required to protect a lie.
-- Ken Jackson
When I asked my primary care physician about the shot. He told me not 1 single person in his family had been shot. Not him or his wife. Not any of his 7 kids. That told me all I needed to know.
-- Brent Tuttle
I was put on leave without pay for 4 months for refusing to take the unsafe and ineffective therapeutic in Canada. It was worth it. I don't take chances with my health. Thalidomide was doctor recommended too. Never forget.
-- Lindi
At this point in time we should not still be tap-dancing around this topic. The 'authorities' are corrupt. Period. Mistakes were not made, it is a crime.
-- William Jeffreys
Reporting both relative risk and absolute risk is important to provide the most complete assessment of the safety and effectiveness of an intervention. The salient points relevant to Covid vaccines are that 1.) absolute risk was not reported by the drug companies/regulatory agencies and 2.) absolute risk is indeed more important when it comes to public health policymaking. When you want to know the societal effects of a policy like mass vaccination, the absolute risk (and number needed to treat) is more informative of how much benefit the policy will provide. In retrospect, the return of mass vaccination was clearly not effective at stopping the spread of Covid and should surprise nobody since we were sold on a "95% effective" tagline without full presentation of the data.
-- pseudonym dadominate
Research from the medical school in Chicago today. Now it just seems quite incredible this hasn't been done up to this point, especially when we consider some of the, uh shall we say, confident statements made by our medical, scientific, and political leaders about how important it was to get vaccinated to prevent [sic] those around us. This casts a very critical light on that. The key thing is that there is no significant difference - no significant difference - between the amount of viral particles shed by someone who has been vaccinated and the amount of viral particles shed by someone who has not been vaccinated. Now if this is true - if this is substantiated by further research - that means there would be no scientific basis for saying that vaccination of one person protects another person. But you wouldn't quite guess that from some of the overstatement, potential overstatement, don't want to be too harsh on these people - that was said during the pandemic which influenced our thinking, really quite significantly.
-- Dr. John Campbell
RFK Jr., he was so reasonable and so smart and so many interesting ideas and enlightened me to this cozy relationship between the regulators and the pharma companies which I really wasn't aware of. I mean I can't let a pharma company representative into my office to give me a pen with a drug name name on it, and
yet those guys are living together and cross-pollinating. I mean that's mindboggling to me. He had a very sensible - didn't necessarily fully agree with it - but a sensible idea about vaccine research that he would like to push forward. Not that vaccines are bad - his family's all vaccinated; my family's all vaccinated and at the end of that interview he said something to me. You know Drew, you are so courageous to talk to me. And I thought ... it blew me back in my chair. I thought, I need courage to have a conversation with an adult in a public setting? And he was right. This is a time where I didn't realize how much speech was being suppressed, how much was being manipulated. Then what happened after that was the 'Twitter files' and they started seeing what was going on, and it's just been to me this is all reprehensible. I never imagined I'd be this point in my life, at this age and place in my career - freedom fighting - and the courage to stand up for it have been the most important things in my life right now and that's crazy, that is crazy. I live in the United States of America and I have to worry about freedoms? I'm to fight for freedom? That is an insanity!
-- Dr. Drew Pinsky
Imagine platforms and media that wouldn’t allow you to discuss your personal side effecs from a pharmaceutical product and a government who mandated their use while shielding the manufacturer from liability. What a nightmare that would be.
-- Dr. Joseph Mercola
Let's thank social media for courageously stepping in to defend the giant drug corporations.
-- pseudonym VolvoImpala
At this point being a conspiracy theorist feels like a noble profession.
-- pseudonym adman1381
Man, it's almost like these things go through years-long trials before being pushed out to the public for a reason.
-- pseudonym ForeverLaxx
No, no, no, no, in my opinion you do not need a covid vaccine or a covid booster if you are metabolically healthy. Unless you've got some radical risk factor - you're a transplant patient, you're a brittle diabetic, you've got a profoundly suppressed immune system.
-- Dr. Robert Cywes
I love being a conspiracy theorist. Maligned, slandered, hated ... but still right.
-- [pseudonym] boogie mcsploogie
The first red flag is stating pet theories as fact. [Having] an idea, a hypothesis, and presenting it like it's established truth. Let's just make a key distinction here: hypothesizing [something] might have a benefit is not unscientific; asking questions is not unscientific. In fact, the beauty of science is that not only is it okay but it encourages questions that are provocative and countercurrent. This is about not making inaccurate statements that are not supported by the evidence and that mislead the public; sensational claims based on nothing compelling scientifically that confuses people. We're talking about making inaccurate scientific claims, taking an idea, taking a hypothesis and stating it as fact, that's the red flag.
Some people are extremely trusting and they will believe and even repeat what an influencer says without scrutiny, without asking for evidence. So we have to be very careful and try to be responsible with how we communicate. And this is a dilemma that we have with scientific communication in general. Scientific thinking and scientific speaking are usually very cautious. Scientists will say things like "we tested this and the results indicate that, but we haven't really checked this other thing yet, it's possible that this...". So everything is very qualified, almost fearful. And popular influencers are often the mirror opposite. Everything is very categorical, very black and white. There's no middle ground, absolute unshakable confidence. And the truth is the public often sees this style of communication as being more confident and even more knowledgeable.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Yes, [virus strain] was highly contagious, and no, the vaccines didn't do much in terms of preventing spread of Covid. If it did it was minimal.
-- Dr. David Jacobs, President of the Ontario Association of Radiologists
It is clear, especially with [virus strain], the vaccines we have cannot really be relied upon to either prevent transmission or infection. An example: The first Omicron case in Israel came from a triple-vaccinated doctor returning from a conference who passed it on to another triple-vaccinated physician. With this evidence we should have moved quickly to lift heavy-handed measures and explain the evolving evidence. This is necessary for public trust. It is also good for public health to have a well-informed populace. Having a false sense of security has obvious negative consequences.
-- Dr. Shiri Kaylan, Professor of medicine at University of British Columbia
We locked ourselves down miserably for two years, absolutely pointlessly, toying with totalitarianism, copying China in essence.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson
I'm saying it [children] was the safest group. They were the less vulnerable group and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of covid than they will from the exposure to covid. And that's not an opinion, that's a fact.
-- Dr. Phil McGraw
The actual science said they were wrong. Yet as has been so often the case during Covid policy debates, the actual science took a back seat to panic, fear, malicious coercion, and inexcusable ignorance.
-- Ian Miller
The former director of the FDA recently admitted that the Covid vaccine approvals process, which gave colleges and universities license to unnecessarily force mandates onto young people, was catastrophically and fatally flawed.
One would imagine that to risk the possible futures of their students, colleges and universities must have required clear-cut evidence that such mandates were necessary, effective, and justifiable given the epidemiological circumstances. That evidence did not exist. ... Assumptions were wildly, unimaginably wrong.
-- Ian Miller
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with 40 facts.
-- [attributed to Rumi]
Now, I was already skeptical of government command and control. But I was still surprised at how authoritarian many politicians were eager to be. Those 15 days turned into years, and the loss of our freedoms increased. It's creepy how some people are so eager to have authorities boss us around.
Let's remember politicians' incompetence, and their insatiable wish to gain power over us. Let's not give them power like that again. Nor should we trust the hysterical media, they're always eager to make life scarier than it is.
-- John Stossel
Always rationalizing ... it [is] the resilience of the duped.
-- James Randi
Human intelligence evolved less as a tool for pursuing objective truth than as a tool for pursuing personal well-being, tribal belonging, social status, and sex, and this often required the adoption of what I call ‘Fashionably Irrational Beliefs' (FIBs), which the brain has come to excel at.
An absurd ideological belief is a form of tribal signalling. It signifies that one considers their ideology more important than truth, reason, sanity. To one's allies, this is an oath of unwavering loyalty.
-- Gurwinder Bhogal
We have a a mainstream media which is dying. It's dying for a reason, and the reason is that they have discredited themselves over a long period of time by spreading things ... and driving these narratives ... that later turn out not to be true. "Why don't they believe us?" The reason people are increasingly not believing the mainstream media is the arrogance with which they have purported these lies on on on the public of the Western countries.
-- Konstantin Kisin
Covid hit and America wet itself, emptied its pockets, and curled up in a ball. Let me say I get no pleasure having to characterize my country as panicky,
inefficient, and stuck on stupid, but that's what we are. I don't see a lot of retractions being printed. When covid hit, we did a lot of stupid things, because America never reacts, it only overreacts. A lot of the dissenting opinions that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have proven to be correct. Maybe that's why the powers-that-be never wanted a covid commission.
-- Bill Maher
How ironic that in both these cases, it was the government - the body suggested by the medical leaders to be best qualified to police against 'misinformation' in healthcare - which actually fostered 'misinformation'.
-- Russ Gonnering
At the time of initial authorization of the first COVID-19 vaccines, [trade name], in December 2020, there was no reported evidence on the efficacy of the authorized COVID-19 vaccine to prevent asymptomatic infection, to reduce viral shedding or to prevent transmission.
Yasir Naqvi, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, Liberal Party of Canada
Contestation is normal in scientific discourse. Anything that cannot be questioned but relies on authority alone is dogma, not science.
-- Ramesh Thakur
If your personal beliefs deny what's objectively true about the world, then they're more accurately called personal delusions.
-- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
All the people who became fascists during covid will never admit they were wrong about everything.
-- pseudonym @He11raiser666
This scandalous shot has absolutely destroyed my trust in the medical establishment.
-- pseudonym @alexbarnett8541
-- pseudonym @sanluisflyer
Never forget the people who shamed, cajoled, and threatened you. Both public and private - never.
I don't know ANYONE who regrets NOT getting jabbed. I didnt get the jab and I'm SO GLAD!
-- pseudonym @littleskittle3982
My friends and family were so vocal about me posting of the vaccine dangers from the start. I copped so much hate and name calling. Got called a granny killer, got told to take off my tin foil hat and put down my pitch fork, got accused of spreading terrorism. Now when I post about the damage it's crickets. They got nothing to say. An apology would be nice, but I am not holding my breath.
-- pseudonym @alisonbear7114
Absolutely criminal. Yet we suffered the insults and hatred and separation for knowing inside it was not right. Apologies anyone?! None!
-- pseudonym @patricianugent4888
I remember the street interview, during lockdowns, with a British granny where she said she would rather risk death than not see her family in her last few years left.
-- pseudonym stacypastry2440
Authoritarianism has developed the technique of absorbing and using vocabularies that are associated with questioning authority, turning them into signals of allegiance to tribe, and people using those vocabularies think they're enlightened radicals when in fact they are the most abject conformists.
-- Dan Olbris
There's a very firm psychological reason why the catch phrase of the day is 'follow the science' and not 'confirm the science', 'validate the science', 'debate the science' or 'replicate the science.
-- Jason Christoff
You persuade ... through facts and argumentation. The government never attempted to do so, nor even acted as if it expected itself to do so. It simply said, from the get-go, 'Here's an expert. The expert says lock down. The expert says social distance. The expert says this is the worst, most deadly virus since the 1920s, or maybe ever. Do what the expert says or you're going to die. An expert worthy of the name shows you the PROOF — not the conclusion independent of any reasoning. A rational expert does not need guns, mandates, emotional intimidation, a compliant and dishonest media or social shaming to convince you. He only needs truth, the willingness and the ability to express it. If he can't, then he's no expert and you should ignore him.
-- Jason Christoff
Covid 'science' got everything wrong:
Transmission - wrong
PCR testing - wrong
Fatality rate / Infection Fatality Rate IFR - wrong
Lockdowns - wrong
School closures - wrong
Quarantine the healthy - wrong
Plexiglass - wrong
Social distancing - wrong
Masks - wrong
Ignoring natural immunity - wrong
Ignoring alternative treatments - wrong
Vax efficacy - wrong
Vax safety - wrong
Vax side effects ignored - wrong
Vax stays at injection site - wrong
Absolute risk reduction versus relative risk reduction - wrong
It's a pandemic of the unvaccinated - wrong
Conflating polio and other traditional vaccines with the mRNA covid injections - wrong.
How to use the scientific method - wrong
How to give informed consent - wrong
-- various attribution
While there is an awful lot of idiocy in the world, the virus-response debacle takes the cake for my entire lifetime thus far, and is hopefully not repeated or superseded.
Proud to have been on the right side of ethics, science, morality, integrity, sincerity, modesty, intellect, logic, rationality; the right side of history the entire time!
a lot of great quotes on the virus stupidity of the 2020s
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence.
-- William Kingdon Clifford
If a vaccine that doesn't reduce spread, lessen symptoms or stop you from getting a virus is considered a success, what exactly does a failed vaccine look like? Asking for everyone ...
-- pseudonym Unacceptable Canadian Girl
We can't rely on how friendly or how trustworthy or how genuine someone seems. It hinges a hundred percent on the evidence, not the packaging, not the presentation, not the messenger, there's just no way around that.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
The 'vaccine' doesn't stop you getting or giving covid. So basically that means that not one person, absolutely none at all, has actually been 'vaccinated' against covid19. I've got that right, haven't I?
-- Paul R. Trotman
If you need to take it every three months, it's not a vaccine.
-- Maxime Bernier
I cannot say this more clearly. If there is NO short or long term safety study or surveillance. NO long term, INERT placebo controlled, randomized clinical trials determining safety. Then RISK is INFINITE and UNKNOWN. It’s not conspiracy. It’s math, logic and common sense.
-- Dr. Stanton Hom
Data from BC, which is quite good, indicated that the average age of a person dying from COVID was 85 and the gain-of-function virus reduced their lifespan by 1-2%. The experimental injections of mRNA gene therapy did not prevent infection, illness or transmission. This proves that there was a complete overreaction, the injections were fraudulent and we should have stuck with our time-tested pandemic plan which had been updated by the end of 2019.
-- D. Januczkowski
The most dangerous liars are those who think they are telling the truth.
-- William S. Burroughs
The risk of getting serious disease and death is relatively low. Now the mask thing. Several sources are consistent: the mask is not necessary. If you feel more comfortable wearing a mask, why not? But I don't think we need to be panicking. The last important message I have is the media coverage. It's disproportionate. This is important; absolutely no question about it. But it's not the only threat we face; it's not even the main one. Even in a worst-case scenario where everybody gets infected hypothetically speaking, ballpark 1 to 3 percent mortality rate, somewhere in there, for coronavirus. Very significant. But heart disease is killing 20-30% of the total population right now! No hypotheticals. And we know it's largely preventable. So it's not even in the same league. You're not going to hear this from the media because virus talk gets eyeballs and clicks. But the truth is, the threats from the usual suspects ... is much greater. Be aware that the exclusive focus on this is not proportional to the threat it represents for us. It's proportional to novelty and shock value.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Automatically accepting every official recommendation because someone told me to is not making an informed decision.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.
-- W. Edwards Deming
There are three ways to convince people en masse to do what you have decided they should do.
1. Explain your reasoning transparently, discuss objections and alternatives, being prepared to change your mind as well as theirs, and hope you come to a majority view in which they agree to co-operate;
2. Scare the crap out of them, which usually requires lying to them via deliberate exaggeration (of risks and/or benefits);
3. Convince them that doing what you want them to do makes them righteous, morally superior to those who don't do it. When it comes to Covid ... which approaches have been chosen? And what does that say about those who lead us and what they think of us?
-- Stephen Cass
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
-- Socrates
Simply ask these two questions. If your shot works, why do I need one? If your shot doesn't work, why do I need one?
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Any time you evaluate any therapeutic, you need to look at it from three perspectives.
Is it safe? Does it work? And do you need it?
Just because you have a capability, it doesn't mean that you have to use it. There has to be a medical necessity. There has to be a need for it.
-- Dr. Vladimir Zelenko
Too many reasons for concern to list here, so I will just remind everyone that 1976 flu vaccine was stopped due to < 50 cases of Guillian Barre. To continue forcing a shot that doesn't work and that causes harm is nefarious. There is no other explanation.
-- Dr. Molly Rutherford
The insanity of the Covid era will be talked about for centuries to come. The lies, coercion, bullying, manipulation, snitching and discrimination towards the unvaccinated spawned a toxic medical apartheid. Kids' education, businesses, the economy and relationships were also ripped to shreds at the altar of authoritarianism. Just despicable. So many people continued with this divisive, revolting messaging even though the facts were not there to back it up.
-- Dan Wooton
Some people feel the personal choices of others are selfish and need to be regulated. What's really selfish is expecting others to surrender their liberties so you can enjoy a false sense of security.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
Mandated medicine is a disgrace, now and forever. We know this from history, and that is why we have signed treaty after treaty edifying the paramount importance of informed consent. There is no more basic liberty than the freedom to choose what goes inside our own bodies.
-- Luke Yamaguchi
Joe Biden called it a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Andrew Neil spoke of punishing the unvaccinated. Jeremy Vine spoke figuratively of holding people down and forcibly jabbing them. Oddly, the smiling fascist Justin Trudeau of Canada called the unvaccinated racist, quite a leap that one. But as a spokesperson from [drug company] admitted in the Dutch Parliament last week, the vaccine was never tested for transmission. In other words, stopping you giving COVID to others. So what the authorities told us about stopping the spread with a jab was a total lie. Take it protect granny - a historic falsehood. Whilst safe for most - though we can't be sure; we don't have long-term data - large numbers of people around the world have suffered severe side-effects. And some have died. The conspiracy theorists, the tin-hat brigade, the so-called anti-vaxxers - who were no such thing, but simply wanted personal choice, were right all along. We will never forget the politicians, the corporations, and the high-profile celebrities and tv doctors who needlessly coerced us into having the vaccine. They've got blood on their hands. Never forgive, never forget, and never again.
-- Dan Wooton
Those who made a choice not to be vaccinated. They have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime. That's a pretty extreme level of discrimination that we have seen. I want people to know that I find that unacceptable.
-- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
The one raw nerve with me on this issue - that's Covid - and their overreaction in my view and their limited ability to understand that. Look, I want to be a team player, but you can't get inside my body. That has to be my decision. This is my body. This is my body, my health. That should be my decision. And even if it did affect you - which it doesn't because we know that having the vaccine you can still transfer it just as easy, or get it just as easy, so that's a red herring - but even if it did, it's still my body! I want to be a team player, I want to help everybody, but you can't come inside my body.
-- Bill Maher
If the unvaxed were dying of covid it would be blasted all over the main stream media in an ‘I told you so’ fashion. Sometimes it’s the things they don’t say which reveal the most.
-- Tobyn Pistoll
Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected.
The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
The autonomy of persons to make decisions, while taking responsibility for those decisions and respecting the autonomy of others, is to be respected.
No individual or group should be discriminated against or stigmatized on any grounds, in violation of human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms.
-- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
There is no ethical or scientific reason to require negative covid tests for unvaxxed people to participate in normal life when it is not required of vaxxed people. The vax doesn't stop disease spread. One day soon, people will be ashamed of their support of irrational discrimination.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The data show that the vaccines are not effective ... and the positions that have been taken by the government have no basis in scientific fact. It's hard to explain them as anything other than an attempt to impose control because it's not science-based and it's not health-based. And in terms of the 'emergency', there is no medical emergency.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
It doesn't matter how ridiculous the lie. As long as the lie is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
-- site: Big Think
It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed in advance of illness. And we want to mandate it? Insanity.
-- Alex Berenson
I feel sad every time someone tells me that they didn’t want the vaccine but felt like they had no other choice. What has happened in our society that we think it’s okay to coerce others into a medical procedure against their free will? This is not okay and must stop.
-- Rick Pittman
It is at the height of selfishness for someone to expect you to inject something into your own body so they may feel safer.
Forcing medical intervention on someone unwilling is unethical, immoral and reeks of degeneracy of not only that individual, but the society that accepts it.
-- Jake Maverick
The fact that there are still people convinced that their fourth injection won't work just because I rejected to take my first leaves me speechless. What's even worse is that these very people still think they are enlightened, extremely intelligent, and of course, right.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
I've covered the law on this. In my view, vaccine mandates are completely and utterly illegal, they're repugnant, they're completely foreign to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to our Common Law.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter
The median age of death in the US from C19 has consistently been above the standard life expectancy.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
It was a red flag when they kept saying they didn't understand the disease, but they completely understood the vaccine. Those two ideas can't live together.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
These people in these positions of authority have convinced themselves that they've saved millions of lives.
But when you take a step back; if you look at the big picture. Let's look at how many deaths have accumulated over time.
You see a gradient across the world of the Covid death tally, and it's going up before the vaccines. When the vaccines arrive that gradient should drop, because it should have had an impact, but the gradient continues on steady as a rock throughout.
You see in the data when [even the current strain] arrives, no impact from the vaccine.
-- Dr. Clare Craig
I often said to people during this ... every day I have to pinch myself ... a couple of times. I'm suddenly hit, as my rational subconscious brain says Ivor, what's happening can't be happening, it's too absurd. And momentarily I wonder, is this actually happening. And instantly of course I say it is. But that is astonishment that my scientific thinker's brain has, just observing what's happening. But of course when you bring in the understanding of mass formation, and a deeper understanding of psychology, and history also, that informs us, then it becomes understandable.
-- Ivor Cummins
It’s just time and time again. I think you’ve seen ideology placed over data and evidence. And then what happens is that they will say something like, okay, six weeks of masks will end COVID. So that’s what they claim — it doesn’t happen. And then what they’ll do is they will kind of move the goal post and say, well, you know, only 95% wore it. So now ... they will constantly try to shift, because they will never admit that their ideology was incorrect. That’s very, very dangerous.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
Nothing came along that made me feel confident of setting aside my initial gut reaction. On the contrary, all of the information that was coming from official sources was intensifying my feeling of threat.
And because so it so quickly became a slanging match, we were suddenly in the playground being bullied by big boys and girls.
And I thought this is so inappropriate; this is is an emergency facing the entire world, and within minutes, the best tool at their disposal has been calling people names. If there's no credible, readily understood argument that can be made in a low calm voice to explain to me why I ought to take a part.
If it's already at the point where they just say if you don't do it I'm going to hit you, and if that doesn't work I'm going to hit you harder ...
I've never got beyond knowing that that's why something is wrong.
They had to force it on people.
-- Neil Oliver
If you look at the data from Israel, and that's one country ... that has given four shots to virtually the entire population, and it didn't make any difference. Didn't improve hospitalization, didn't improve death, didn't improve cases. It was a nothing.
A lot of statistics don't get very much play in the regular newspaper. The truth is it rapidly became clear ... you were MORE likely to get Covid if you were vaccinated. For a while there, they were on their high-horses, talking about this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. If it weren't for the unvaccinated, then Covid would just disappear. Well they don't say that anymore. This is actually a pandemic now of the vaccinated.
These are statistics that are kept by the government! Even the statistics that they've got on reported harms are wildly more common than with traditional vaccines in which I have a great deal of faith. I'm tired of people who are getting dubious about the Covid vaccines in particular - which aren't even genuine vaccines - being called anti-vaxxers. I don't want to take a medication that's not going to do me any good.
Regular people were like hmmm, we understood why this was rushed to begin with, but we've had some time now to collect some information. The truth is those vaccine harm databases are probably about 10% of reality, which brings the frequency of some kind of negative, serious ... at least somewhat serious side effect to about 1 in 100; that's extremely high.
It's just not that dangerous of a disease. Now we're stuck with this permanent overreaction.
-- Lionel Shriver
I remember reading about propaganda in history books and thinking 'wow this is so obvious, nobody would fall for this today'. Boy was I wrong.
-- unknown attribution
Being a 'conspiracy theorist' is spending endless hours for years and years gathering as much information as possible from as many resources as possible and critically thinking about what that information means then having people who do nothing but watch TV tell you you're crazy.
-- pseudonym E. Galv
Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be colossally stupid.
When the vaccine making process has been rushed, there have been bad outcomes.
-- Jen Christensen
I want to point out the essential absurdity in this exercise, and I hope you see it. A for-profit company releases a product and every person on the planet is forced to come up with reasons why they don't want it. This is insanity. For any other product, in any universe that made sense, we would say it's the profiting company's responsibility to convince people that its product is worth consuming, not the other way around. The fact that they've achieved widespread, rushed, unquestioned consumption (and widespread vilification against anyone who has not) can only be explained by propagandistic manipulation.
-- James Edward Taylor
Flu deaths are down because of better hygiene, masks and social distancing … but US COVID numbers are ‘bad’ because people aren’t listening to hygiene protocols, masks and social distancing. Makes sense.
-- Eric July
It's a lot easier to tell yourself you're a hero than it is to realize you've been complicit in the biggest fraud in history.
-- unattributed, somebody on the internet
When people do their own research before buying a car or house, they're considered a 'smart consumer'. When you do your own research before putting something in your body, you're called a 'conspiracy theorist'.
-- Dr. Ben Tapper
Take all of the Covid-19 deaths from around the world, all ages, all-time, and add them up. The total is less than the number of children (ages 5 and under) who have died from malnutrition during the same period.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Scientifically, it makes zero sense. How can you force people to take a vaccine in order to stop transmission when that vaccine is not effective at stopping transmission?
-- Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, Florida Surgeon General
We’re all Team Reality now, folks, even if some of the bluechecks still haven’t caught up. The only question left is not how much good but how much damage those miracle shots have done.
-- Alex Berenson
This is not the Andromeda Strain. Yes it's a serious thing that we should respect and take seriously but ... life goes on.
-- Bill Maher
I trust the science; you trust the television.
-- unattributed somebody on the internet
Mandates, which are rigid by definition, seem a bad match for assessments of personal safety, which are, by our nature, flexible and variable. With risk must come choice.
-- FLCCC Alliance
Imagine demonising people who are protesting against mandatory medical procedures. The reality is that history will rightly view mandates the same way as we view other forced medical procedures.
-- David Limbrick, Member of Parliament, Australia
I'm anti-fraud. Not anti-vaccine. Give me a vaccine which works well. Then we can evaluate risk / benefit.
-- Dr. Michael Yeadon
Yet again Big Tech censorship is counterproductive and useless. Too bad mRNA vaccine fanatics can’t see the problem is their product, not “misinformation”. If the Covid vaccines worked, no one would be reading this. “Misinformation” is not a thing. Misinformation is the other side of a debate, facts and data the would-be censors don’t like.
-- Alex Berenson
And how long had the [brand name] and [brand name] vaccines been studied, when released for mass use in the winter of 2021? Two months.
-- Dr. Norman Doidge
I get a kick out of people who demand unequivocal proof before they'll change an opinion that was formed for them with absolutely no proof whatsoever.
-- somebody on the internet
Mask mandates were always an anti-scientific farce. They were nothing more than part of the scare campaign and the propaganda to brainwash people using fear, so they’d line up like sheep to be injected again and again.
One of the saddest things I’ve seen was the high percentage of people … in the open air wearing a mask, tricked into thinking it was protecting them.
-- Craig Kelly
The need for continuous boosters shows that the science isn’t working.
-- somebody on the internet
The COVID vaccines, the mRNA platform, is a complete failure! This vaccine will harm and kill and is killing innocent healthy people coerced into taking it to put bread on the table. The vaccine is ineffective (you may say it’s a gene delivery platform, an injection and not a vaccine and I agree) and not properly safe. It is dangerous and I state and warn AGAIN, do not take it, do not take any more of it, do not under any circumstances give to your children.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
Vaccine skeptics are the true critical thinkers. We overcame the most sophisticated forms of manipulation.
Regarding mRNA "Covid vaccines": anyone who would think for a minute, would realize that there was not a way to know for sure that vaccines were safe and effective, simply because not enough time has passed. Similarly, anyone could see that the masterminds behind the lockdowns and vaccinations, the billionaires behind the scenes, and the corrupt governments, all ensured that any dissent would be silenced. Thus, the purported consensus did not, in fact, exist at all. The minority of people saw through that, decided accordingly, and refused vaccination.
-- Igor Chudov
First time in history that the ineffectiveness of a medicine is being blamed on those who haven't taken it.
-- Robert Malone
A vaccine so safe and effective that it takes a court order compelling [manufacturer] to release vaccine data despite the fact that the government has already given immunity to the drug manufacturer.
-- David Freiheit
In science, especially biomedical science, you are never 100% sure about anything. Ever. Full stop. That’s about the only thing we know for sure, ironically.
-- Dr. Vincent Esposito
Trust the science is the most anti science statement ever. Questioning science is how you do science.
-- (unknown)
Can we trust big Pharma? Trust is for friends and family. It's not for corporations, and it's not for strangers on the internet either. In science, we look for confirmation, reproducibility. We have to scrutinize information, we have to demand evidence for claims, we have to fact check everything. Be careful forming views based on what we would like to be true. Science can be pretty cold, science doesn't care what we prefer. science works by criticizing ideas.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Blind faith in any institution does not make one honourable.
-- (unknown)
We do not need to force vaccination on healthy young adults, healthy middle-aged adults and children. The idea behind universal vaccination with a flawed vaccine for a virus that mutates rapidly is absurd. It is time to stop the madness and the mandates.
-- Robert Malone, MD
The unvaccinated are not a danger to the public. They are a danger to the narrative.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Seeing jabbed people spending 99% of their time with other jabbed people and getting sick constantly now should be enough to get some neurons firing in those calcified brains … but it’s not. That’s how bad this really is.
-- Pseudonym The Architect
If there is one positive we can take away from this entire Covid hoax, it's the way it has exposed all the evil people we didn't know where there. Doctors, nurses, police, academics, friends, family. People who we thought we could trust. It's all in the open now. We see you.
-- pseudonym The Architect
First, these vaccines ‘mis-train’ the immune system to recognize only a small part of the virus the spike protein. Variants that differ, even slightly, in this protein are able to escape the narrow spectrum of antibodies created by the vaccines. Second, the vaccines create ‘vaccine addicts,’ meaning persons become dependent upon regular booster shots because they have been ‘vaccinated’ only against a tiny portion of a mutating virus.
-- America’s Frontline Doctors group
Israel is one of the most injected countries, and it appears from this data that this represents a clear failure of these products to provided protective immunity against emergent variants and to prevent transmission.
-- Dr. Jessica Rose
Before there was a vaccine, I was allowed to sit in my college classroom with a cloth mask.
Now, when 98% of my campus is triple vaxxed, I will be arrested for stepping foot onto campus without a booster and KN95 mask.
What "science" are we following???
-- somebody on the internet
There is no scientific or medical justification for any of these mandates.
-- FLCCC Alliance of doctors
While a typical vaccine uses an antigen of the disease it is trying to prevent, [brand name] and [brand name] COVID-19 doses contain synthetic RNA fragments encapsulated in a nanolipid carrier compound, the sole purpose of which is to lessen clinical symptoms associated with the S-1 spike protein, not the actual virus. They do not actually impart immunity or inhibit the transmissibility of the disease. In other words, they are not designed to keep people from getting sick with SARS-CoV-2. They only lessen a person’s infection symptoms if or when that person gets infected.
These injections are not vaccines. They do not prevent infection, they do not render you immune, and they do not prevent transmission of the disease.
-- Peter Gyel
I’m not anti-science for refusing to wear a mask. Anti-science would be reading the label on a box of masks that says does not protect against viral infections and still wearing one.
-- somebody on the internet
We all know in the [brand name drug company] trial that was published in the medical literature, that more people died who got the vaccine than who got the placebo. In other words, the vaccine killed more people ... more people died who got the drug than who didn't get the drug. But see everybody is focused on how many lives we can save from covid, and they're not focused on how many deaths were caused by the vaccine.
Now three million people die every year. You just saved 10,000 lives, congratulations. That's rounding error! We turned this country upside-down to save just 10,000 lives. But we actually didn't save 10,000 lives. You come up with at least 150,000 people who have been killed by the vaccine. So you killed 150,000 in order to maybe save 10,000 lives. And that's if the actual variant matched the vaccine, which it doesn't.
And for kids, the risk/benefit is even worse. We kill 117 kids to save 1 life.
-- Steve Kirsch
I'm going to focus my remarks today on the elephant in the room that nobody likes to talk about: that the vaccines kill more people than they save. Today, we focus almost exclusively on COVID death saves and vaccine efficacy because we were led to believe that vaccines were perfectly safe. But this is simply not true. For example, there are four times as many heart attacks in the treatment group in the [drug company] 6-month trial report. That wasn't bad luck. VAERS shows heart attacks happened 71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine. In all 20 people died who got the drug, 14 died who got the placebo. Few people noticed that. If the net all-cause mortality from the vaccine is negative, vaccines, boosters, and mandates are all nonsensical. Even if the vaccines had a 100% protection, it still means we killed two people to save one life.
-- Steve Kirsch
Feeling sorry for those unable to think and use common sense. Do you logically think passports will prevent the spread of a virus even though the vaccines do not stop the spread. People have been put into such fear they lost the ability for rational thinking.
Even with 100% vaxed and with passports the virus will still be here. So much put into forcing those who will be just as well off with the natural immunity that everyone will eventually have. It is ridiculous what the government has done. The mandates have caused more harm than good.
-- Daniel Verkerke
Then to add so much rudeness and hate and discrimination to the ignorance, is mind blowing. What happened to these people's humanity?
-- Michael Schneider
Mrna vaccines should be withdrawn from the market now. No one should get them. No one should get boosted. They are a dangerous and ineffective product.
-- Alex Berenson
Freedom is not a reward for compliance. That’s how jails work.
-- somebody on the internet
Remember when they were beating people up and arresting people who were walking alone on the beach or swimming by themselves for not following some regulation that didn't even work?
-- Dr. James E. Olsson
For two years we've been held hostage by the irrational fear of those who think we need to flatten the curve.
-- Randy Hiller
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
-- George Orwell
This is about freedom - the freedoms that are being lost. We have, unavoidably it seems, given away freedoms in this country that were fought and
died for. There are a hundred thousand white crosses on foreign battlefields with Australians lying under them, and they fought and died so we wouldn't have
to rally, and if we did we had the freedom to do it. So these are not anti-vaxxers; these are people who are fighting for freedom that governments are taking away. We're seeing a government that is averse to any kind of risk, manipulating and controlling every aspect of our lives, and that's why they're there that's why I'm here [protesting].
-- Graham Hood
Austria is forcibly injecting it's people with a dangerous substance under threat of a massive fine. Belarus never had a lockdown at all. If Austria is a 'full democracy' and Belarus is 'authoritarian', I'll take authoritarianism. It's more free.
-- some guy on the internet
There is nothing more central to the idea and practice of freedom than bodily autonomy. It is the basal freedom from which all others are derived. Without it - as the history of slavery starkly reminds us - all other liberties are comparatively ornamental. For this reason, we must vigorously oppose this organized attempt to present the vaccines which have been delivered to millions under rather severe coercion.
-- Thomas Harrington
The traditional attraction of vaccines to those making public health policies lies in their ability to turn the vaccinated person into a "dead end" for the virus. Vaccines that have the capacity to stop the chain of infection and transmission in this way are said to offer "sterilizing immunity." Given that the vaccines have shown no documented ability to stop infection and transmission, the argument that one should get vaccinated to further the public good has little or no validity. Rather, the decision to take one of them should be seen as a purely personal decision.
-- Thomas Harrington
As the abbreviated clinical trials have shown, these are not sterilizing vaccines and thus no one can or should be coerced to taking them in the name of the “public good”.
-- Thomas Harrington
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Any claim that the vaccines are “safe and effective” must be seen not as factual, but rather aspirational. We will only be able to arrive at definitive conclusions about their effectiveness and safety in several years time when the full cycle of trials is completed and/or government agencies have rigorously collated and analyzed the results of their widespread experimental use among the public.
-- Thomas Harrington
The public health mandarins are both fearful and furious; they staked their political careers and medical reputations on vaccines that have provably failed.
-- Alex Berenson
Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.
-- Richard Feynman
Costing someone their ability to put food on the table runs afoul of free will.
-- Roman Baber
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
-- Charles Mackay
In a rational world the scientific and medical establishment would be long past any pro-mRNA propaganda. The jabs have failed. They were a (semi-)noble experiment, but they’ve failed. The proof fills hospitals and morgues from Tel Aviv to Edinburgh.
-- Alex Berenson
They somehow managed to demonize coughs, sniffles and having no symptoms at all ... but normalized strokes, blood clots, neurological disorders and 'died suddenly'.
-- somebody on the internet
Forty years of positive data on Ivermectin. But we have to ban it because they don't have enough data. Zero data on an experimental vaccine. But we have to put it in kids as fast as possible because the data says so. This never-ending doublespeak is mind-blowing.
-- some Marc guy on the internet
I'd like you to consider all you are sacrificing by choosing to embark on this Crusade. Precedents are being set, daily. What you have broken doesn't simply unbreak itself when you put down your whip. To get us to comply, you have erased the principle of individual bodily autonomy, destroyed the principle of unconditional rights and freedoms, and tossed out the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the freedom to work to feed our families. In short, you have normalized the idea that "might makes right" at every level of society. Tyranny always marches through the front door, welcomed by many as the solution to some alleged existential threat that supposedly can only be solved through "temporary tyranny". As always, we are told that this time is different. It never is.
-- Julius Ruechel
At the beginning, the very beginning, the hide-in-the-basement, stock-up-on-bottled-water, shut-down-the-world-the-plague-is-here panic made sense. Maybe. But within a few weeks, even as the United States and Europe had just begun lockdowns, anyone paying attention could see the cure was worse than the disease. In our desperation to control Covid-19, we had done more damage to ourselves and the world than the virus ever could. By then, though, it was already too late.
-- Alex Berenson
We vaccinated 4 billion people … and you’ll never believe what happened next. Daily COVID infections [graph of skyrocketing] worldwide since the epidemic began. Just imagine how bad things would be if we didn’t have vaccines.
-- Alex Berenson
If you're going to mandate something, it needs to have a very clear public-health rationale. I don't believe that coercion is a line that any physician, any government should cross.
-- Dr. Martha Fulford
Regarding the genetic covid vaccines, the science is settled: they’re not working. They are not completely safe. These genetic vaccines are leaky, they have poor durability, and even if every man, woman and child in the United States were vaccinated, these products cannot achieve herd immunity and stop covid. They are not completely safe and the full nature of the risks remain unknown. If there is risk, there must be choice.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
People think the problem is the unvaxxed, when the real problem is stupidity.
-- DJ Lange
Where is all the data that supports mandates? They're not looking at hard science and hard data. They're going with a 'well it feels good to have a mandate'.
-- Alex Villanueva, Los Angeles County Sheriff
What is mass formation psychosis? Psychosis is when people lose some contact with reality. Mass formation psychosis is when a large part of a society focuses its attention to a leader(s) or a series of events and their attention focuses on one small point or issue. Followers can be hypnotized and be led anywhere, regardless of data proving otherwise.
-- somebody on the internet
I don't actually think that anyone was changed by the last two years. I think people's essential natures were revealed by the last two years. I think a lot of uncomfortable realities and truths were simply laid bare by the last two years.
-- Neil Oliver
Does a perfectly healthy person have a moral obligation to his fellow man to take a medicine with unknown risks, that will only offer him some temporary protection against something the would more than likely defeat naturally? I’d also like to add that this medicine does not prevent others (even others who have taken said medicine) from getting sick from you.
-- Jonathan Renaud
Suggesting shots aren’t dangerous because you got them and are fine is like saying that Russian Roulette isn’t dangerous because you played and survived. It’s called gaslighting.
-- somebody on the internet
Where no coherent claim can be made that vaccination is for the “greater good,” to remove personal choice from the equation by premising employment upon taking a medically unnecessary and possibly injurious vaccine is unconscionable.
Politicians appear to believe that “getting people vaccinated,” the justification for these requirements, is an end in and of itself, regardless of whether it does anything to reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, not to mention improve public health overall.
Mask mandates fare no better. For two years, study after study has confirmed what could not escape the objective, casual observer: that community masking with cloth and surgical masks does nothing to slow the spread of COVID-19, despite the attempts of politicians and compromised scientists to twist results of this research to claim otherwise.
Mandates that serve no legitimate public health purpose and are instituted merely to punish the noncompliant should have no place in a civilized or democratic society.
-- Jenin Younes
By maintaining the pretence that people have a real choice between being vaccinated or being stripped of their employment, schooling, social interactions and travels, governments seek to coerce and manipulate without triggering charter protections. The strategy is to accomplish indirectly what could be unconstitutional if they enforced it directly.
-- Bruce Pardy
The Omicron variant is a relatively mild virus. And to just keep vaccinating people and thinking of doing it again to protect the population is, in my view, now a waste of time.
-- Dr. Clive Dix, former head of UK vaccine task force
Three times more people died of COVID after the vaccine than died before the vaccine?
-- William Wallis
That’s correct. There are no analyses…showing the more we vaccinate, the more COVID deaths we have. That’s shown in over 145 countries, so there is a relationship. Keep vaccinating hard; we’ll have more COVID deaths.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
If you scare enough people, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny.
-- Elon Musk
Regarding the genetic COVID vaccines, the science is settled. They are not working, and they are not completely safe. These vaccines do not prevent Omicron infection, viral replication, or spread to others. In our daily lives, with our friends, with our families, we all know that this is true. The facts, figures and analysis clearly points to a failed vaccination policy that needs to be reversed now.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
If you listen to what these experts say, if you read the largely overlooked documents, and if you actually look closely at the primary data from the CDC and [private drug company], you will find a story of American health agencies' misleading communications and a myopic policy agenda sometimes at odds with science.
-- Bari Weiss
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
-- Albert Einstein
The power of authority: how easily we do what we're told. There's a reason why Milgram's experiment stays with us today. Whether it's evolutionarily or socially drilled into us, it seems that humans are capable of doing terrible things, if only we are told to do so by someone in power — or, at the very least, when we don't feel responsible for the consequences.
-- Jonny Thomson
Thank you for teaching students that our own mental health is much less important than making triple-vaccinated adults feel safe.
Thank you for teaching me that even the most minute risk is not worth taking.
Thank you for teaching us that we should never question authority, or think critically, but instead, we should follow whatever the people in charge tell us to do. Obedience is best. I realize now that thinking for yourself is overrated and not really necessary when you can just make decisions based on fear.
Thank you for pushing your irrational fears and anxieties on me.
-- some America teenager
They're letting hysteria drive them to do really damaging things.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
You never, ever, ever start a vaccination programme in the middle of a pandemic. Are they insane?
-- Dr. Roger Hodkinson
To all so called Canadians that like or approve of these government mandates. Do everyone a favor and move to China, Cuba, Iran, or North Korea. I'm sure they would love to have you there to rule over your life since you enjoy tyranny so much (very un-Canadian). "STRONG AND FREE" it's in our god damn anthem.
-- some pseudonym on the internet
Never mass vaccinate during a pandemic with a vaccine that cannot block infectious transmission.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
We could start by ending the bullying and coercion of those who have made the choices to which they are entitled as free human beings. We could agree that a person has the right to feed their family without having to submit to a medical procedure of uncertain efficacy uncertain safety.
-- Neil Oliver
If you roll out large-scale vaccination using a vaccine that cannot prevent infectious transmission, you cannot control this pandemic. The virus will escape, all the time. You cannot win this.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
Our future will remember who stood up for the truth, lives, and liberties, and who made billions of precious humans needlessly suffer.
-- Joy Pullmann
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
No one person or group can claim the mantle of public health, and no one person or group can claim to know what is best for the collective, just as no one leader should make devastating decisions for the 'greater good' of society. Self-proclaimed public health experts are really nothing more than aspiring autocrats who happen to populate governments and academic departments.
-- Jordan Schachtel
Taking things away from people until they say yes is not a choice.
-- somebody on the internet
Bullies identify what you want then hold it hostage until you comply: your job, a degree, your kids’ education, etc.
-- somebody on the internet
Those who say vaccine mandates and passports are justified because polls show the majority of Canadians approve of them don’t seem to know that fundamental rights exist precisely to offer protection against the tyranny of the majority.
-- Maxime Bernier
You shouldn’t need an exemption to opt out of a medical procedure that has death as a possible adverse reaction.
-- somebody on the internet
Public health isn't simply about making the most medically prudent policies. It's about weighing them with social, psychological, and economic realities. Too often, it seems Canadian public health officials create policy in a bubble, ironically unaware that saving lives must be balanced with the need to actually live life.
-- Sabrina Maddeaux
No one has the right to make you engage in an act of self-harm. And even if the jab were completely safe, no one has the right to make you put anything into your body against your will. If you let them claim ownership of your body, you really can’t complain about what comes next.
-- internet guy Way of the World
So say all dictators and tyrants. They all say that their tyranny is for the greater good.
-- Don Boudreaux
If hospital workers in Quebec and Ontario don’t need to be vaccinated while working in areas of the highest transmission, vaccine mandates and vaccine passports anywhere are complete nonsense.
They must be dropped immediately.
-- Derek Sloan
A shot that reduces symptoms is called a treatment, not a vaccination. A shot of cortisone reduces symptoms of shoulder pain. A shot of morphine reduces pain generally. A shot of ceftriaxone can be used prophylactically to prevent gonorrhea. No one calls those shots vaccinations against their target.
A shot of mRNA that reduces symptoms of C19 is a treatment. We are simply treating C19 prophylactically. And suppressing innate immunity in the process.
If you thought repeated shots of morphine had some unfortunate long-term consequences, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
When they say ‘refusing to get vaccinated’, by definition of language it is not a choice. You don’t ‘refuse’ a choice, you ‘refuse’ an order.
-- Kate Wand
And more recent data from highly vaccinated countries show that the jabbed are casually a source of asymptomatic spread. The vaccine suppresses symptoms, but doesn’t stop or prevent infection or reduce viral load (some evidence it’s actually higher).
So, for a year, these ass clowns were scaring everyone into thinking symptomless, healthy people were to be shunned and feared. This was the basis for all the terrible, evil mitigations: lockdowns, distancing, mask mandates, etc.
Now that their beloved magic needle juice is here and actually causing asymptomatic spread, it’s crickets.
These people are evil.
-- Dave S.
Since covid vaccines do not confer meaningful protection against infection and transmission, and the risk of severe covid is very low for large parts of the general population, vaccine passports and covid vaccine mandates have no medical or epidemiological justification. Indeed, countries and US states using vaccine passports, such Israel, France, Italy and New York, have recently reported record new coronavirus infection rates. Thus, pressuring people into getting vaccinated (e.g. through a "no jab, no job" scheme) must be seen as a major medical crime and a crime against humanity, especially given the ignored superiority of natural immunity and well-documented vaccine-related health risks.
-- Swiss Policy Research group
Lowering “the burden on doctors and nurses holding our health care system together” is something that could have, and should have, been addressed decades ago, and has little to do with Covid or with vaccines. Canada has doggedly refused to learn from superior health care systems in France, Japan, Germany, Singapore, and dozens of other countries where “hallway medicine” and deadly waiting lists are unheard of. Instead, we cherish our ideological commitment to a dysfunctional government monopoly system that serves patients poorly. Blaming overcrowded hospitals on any one particular virus or disease is intellectually dishonest, considering the fact that Canadian hospitals have been periodically overcrowded for many years.
-- John Carpay
We live in a time where the courageous are attacked by those with irrational fear, while those with irrational fear applaud themselves as courageous.
-- Kulvinder Kaur, MD
It is not the responsibility of the unvaccinated to protect the vaccinated. That’s the vaccine’s job.
-- somebody on the internet
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-- Albert Einstein
Remember when you took evidence-based science and civil liberties for granted?
-- Dr. Eli David
In a real pandemic hospitals desperately hire as many doctors and nurses as they can. They certainly don’t fire them.
-- Dr. Eli David
If you still need a booster after been fully vaccinated, and testing after been fully vaccinated, and hospitalization after been fully vaccinated, and masks, social distancing & lockdowns all after been fully vaccinated? Then it’s time to admit that you’ve been FULLY conned.
-- Dr. Adam Aneevit
Lockdowns are to prevent ICUs from being overrun. So just in case you weren’t keeping track, Justin Trudeau’s government spent [$500,000,000,000] in the name of Covid, and increased ICU capacity by zero beds. You read that right, they spent $500,000,000,000.
-- Quentin Gardiner
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.
-- Mark Twain
You don't have to even be a doctor, or to even understand evidence-based medicine to know that these shots are not safe and they're not effective. I think anybody with half a brain can see that now. But it is amazing the power of fear, and the power of this narrative that we've been sold that our only way out of this mess is to jab everybody. And so people desperately don't want to believe that these shots aren't safe and aren't effective. Because everybody has so believed the nonsense that there is no alternative to these jabs to keep you safe, they're desperate not to realize that they're a disaster, and that they're actually the worst medical treatment ever invented in terms of safety and efficacy.
-- Dr. Charles Hoffe
Coercion is evil precisely because it thus eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and make him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.
-- Friedrich Hayek
The official government statistics from the United Kingdom show that people who are vaccinated have much higher infection rates than people who are unvaccinated. It’s an interesting vaccine which produces higher infection rates in those who’ve received it than those who didn’t.
-- Tony Heller
Nobody who advocates forced medical treatment on others is virtuous!
-- somebody on the internet
You do not experiment on humans, and consent must be freely given without coercion and include a discussion about alternative treatments … and an individual’s material risk of developing covid-19 or actually coming to harm from it.
-- Dr. Sam White
No person under any circumstances can receive any pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal concerning any biological product or medicine injected into their body. It must be a free choice after fair balanced and full informed consent.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
It is well known that fear tends to push people to look for a powerful authority to follow, and for scapegoats to punish.
Hence the rhetoric of the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’, despite that line not actually having a connection with reality.
Governments and statist politicians have realized that they can simultaneously spread fear by emphasizing worst case scenarios, while scapegoating unvaccinated individuals to redirect anger away from the state.
-- Spencer Fernando
It went from '2 weeks to slow the spread' to '3 injections to feed your family'. This is all getting VERY exhausting... Leave. People. Alone.
You do not need a medical or religious 'exemption' to refuse a medical procedure. Especially an unnecessary one. 'I don't want it' is a totally sufficient reason. You are a free an autonomous human being with rights.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Surely we are living in one of the most stupid time periods in human history.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
We must acknowledge that the waning support of the wider public cannot simply be dismissed as Covid denialism. Or as conspiratorial delusion and heartless contempt for human life.
-- Owen Jones
The false dichotomy between harsh authoritarian measures or mass death must be abandoned for good.
-- Owen Jones
As we approach the second anniversary of the greatest episode of collective hysteria in our history, it is noticeable how little has been achieved by all the incredibly damaging, unprecedented measures taken.
Yet we still have many among us, in positions of great power, who want to carry on doing things which have not worked, in the hope that it will be different the next time.
-- Peter Hitchens
The problem here is that you have to realize that the people making these decisions are also human. Don't put them on pedestals. Use your rational capacity. Think. Be objective. Question. Science is not done by consensus. We're meant to question. It's not scientism; science is not a religion.
-- Dr. Sam Dube
Science that can't be questioned is propaganda.
-- all sorts of people
Science is never settled. If you feel the need to protect science via censorship – it’s propaganda, not science.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Doctors and scientists had to follow a very specific narrative. That’s not science, that’s propaganda.
-- Joe Rogan
They’d rather cancel surgeries than uphold the constitution. This is not about health at all, this is just about control.
-- Will Kalisz
No matter how noble someone feels their cause is – they lose all moral authority if they break the law to achieve it.
-- The RN Rant persona
It's not "the unvaxed". It's being lawfully vax free. The fact that so many have not taken the time to research and educate themselves about the harms and the law as they followed blindly in compliance willingly sacrificing all freedoms is what the evil tyrants have been feeding off of as they watch the segregation unfolding.
-- somebody on the internet
This vaccine does not protect you from covid. It does, however, protect you from governmental oppression ... for now, that is.
-- Christine Anderson, Member of European Parliament
There's only one side of this debate that is trying to censor the other side. Why would you trust the side that is censoring people?
-- somebody on the internet
Only people desperate to hide their lies want to control free speech.
-- pseudonym Catturd
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
-- Ayn Rand
Don’t take security in the false refuge of consensus.
-- Christopher Hitchens
If you’re waiting for the government to ‘give’ you your freedom back then you’re already a slave.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Covid deaths are heavily biased toward the elderly and chronically ill, vaccine deaths seem to be heavily biased toward the young and healthy. What kind of society sacrifices the lives of the young and innocent for the decrepit?
-- pseudonym Leaky Vaccine
The ‘vaccinated’ operate under a thin veil of illusion that they are somehow safe. Data for so many countries illustrate that ‘vaccination’ is not protection, and less so all the time.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
Science has never been about one person, like [US health bureaucrat] saying "I am the science". Not only is it arrogant, it's incredibly dangerous for progress that might be stymied by that.
-- Rand Paul
A lot of people talk about mandating, and legislation, and policy, and restrictions. It's just evil. It's as simple as that. I'm tired of this rhetoric from politicians and people in the media, who make out as if it's inevitable, it's going to happen, so we're doing it. This is tyranny, it's fascism, it's wrong, it should not be happening. Where are people's rights, our human rights, our right to choose what we do with our bodies? Who has those powers to say no we're taking those rights away from you.
They should not have those powers. Any government that can legislate to give anybody a medical intervention whether they want it or not is pure tyrannical, and it is evil.
-- Richard Taylor
Don't talk about breakthroughs; these are not breakthroughs. These are naturally-occurring infections that have to occur because there is no immunity against infection against Covid-19. Whether you take an inactivated vaccine or a gene-based vaccine is entirely immaterial. There is no basis whatsoever for any intramuscular vaccination. There is no basis. And every attempt is bound ... is doomed to fail.
-- Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi
"After 20 months, I have concluded that pandemic policies are driven by people with paranoid ideation and/or severe anxiety disorders."
-- Gil Nimni, MD
The alarmism today. It's as if there's actually a competition going on: who can scare people the most. I guess during the pandemic, many world leaders have had some practice at this.
-- Nigel Farage
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-- Albert Einstein
Let's convince the unvaxxed that its a good thing... and it works... while convincing the vaxxed that it doesn't work and they need a 3rd... 4th... anyone else see a problem in this logic?
-- March Jay
The protected need to be protected from the unprotected, by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.
This is the new $cience, do not question it.
-- Dan Ellison
Still have yet to hear any media outlet talk about the immune system and how it works. Why?
-- somebody on the internet
Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?
-- Cristie Rose
It’s freaking scary how easy it is to brainwash large swathes of the population. It’s absolutely terrifying.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
No one should have the right to deny you making a living based on the possibility you might get sick some day. But sadly, this is becoming a reality. THAT makes me sick!
-- Robert D Humphreys
It is not the goal that renders a system oppressive; it is always the methods by which the goal is pursued.
When a political elite pushes an agenda this hard, and resort to extortion and manipulation to get their way, you can almost always be sure your benefit is definitely not what they had at heart.
As far as I am concerned, I will not be vaccinated with anything that has not been properly vetted and tested, and has shown no sound scientific evidence that the benefits outweigh the disease itself in possible long term side effects, which to this day we don't know anything about.
I will not be reduced to a mere guinea pig by getting vaccinated with an experimental drug, and I will most assuredly not get vaccinated because my government tells me to and promises in return, I will be granted freedom. Let’s be clear about one thing: no one grants me freedom, for I am a free person.
-- Christine Anderson
The worst part of the past 20 months has been the non-stop assault on peaceful people.
Decent people who are just trying to mind their business, enjoy life, take care of families, and not hurt each other; being demonised, imprisoned, shamed, bullied, and treated like criminals.
Stop treating innocent people like criminals. Stop treating healthy people like they are diseased. Stop treating peaceful people like they are violent.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I feel like the past 20 months have largely consisted of people trying to convince me to be as afraid as they are. And them getting mad at me for refusing to be.
People now think that being more afraid than you makes them a better person. Many even take pride in their unhinged levels of hysteria. Cowardice is not a virtue though. And never will be.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Covid will be endemic.
We can entrench the segregationist, repressive, unscientific, fascist approach of the past 2 years.
Or we can focus on protecting the most vulnerable and get back to normal life.
-- Maxime Bernier
Anyone that supports a Vaccine Passport should not attend any Remembrance Day Ceremonies. That would be a further slap in the face to our fallen heroes. They sacrificed their lives and defeated the ancestors of our current oppressors. They did this to give us personal rights and freedoms as individual people. I would rather see the Vaccine supporters protest the bravery of our heroes, instead of hypocritically pretending to support their bravery.
-- Scott Sheppard
Tonight I was at a restaurant and saw a screen showing a baseball game. Tens of thousands of people in the stands, packed in, no masks in sight. I’m sure almost all of them older than school age, meaning at higher risk of transmission and infection.
Masking in school is pure theater, devoid of scientific justification. Those advocating the masking of school-aged kids are advocating child abuse.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
The government is now making noises that sound ominously like last year. It's like Groundhog Day. It's absolutely where we were last year. But the difference was that last year we didn't have almost all of the adult population vaccinated. And we were told that that was the answer.
We're being treated like children. We're being groomed. I actually feel that I'm being groomed by an abusive partner. We're having these things dangled all of the time and then taken away and we're being punished for being naughty. Look guys - if you're not good, if you don't behave you're going to be on the detention step, and that means no Christmas. If you don't behave, we will take Christmas away from you again. And of course it all comes back to that dreaded chorus, that dreaded refrain to protect the NHS.
Please, please, please stop telling me to protect the NHS. Stop telling me. Stop assuming that I will sacrifice my life, my freedom, everything about my existence, to protect the NHS. The NHS is supposed to protect us, and the idea that I and you and the citizens of this country take secondary importance to an organization that we pay for is not acceptable anymore. We do not accept that we have to do anything to protect the NHS.
We mustn't forget that we've actually had winter crises in the NHS for the last two decades. We can find those headlines going back as far as 2000, probably further, and people waiting 16 hours in ambulances which is absolutely outrageous. No one should be waiting 16 hours in an ambulance, but this is not new and yes covid may put a bit of extra pressure on that but let's not also forget that in the last 10 years the number of beds available in the NHS has gone down dramatically, so we have less beds.
We've had 20 months. The government have thrown money hand over fists at testing companies, PPE companies, giving out lateral flow tests to people that don't need it. That money could have been invested in opening up beds in the NHS so that we didn't have this crisis. We've done nothing to prepare for this.
We were told the vaccine was the answer. Obviously it isn't. We've done everything that we can, you and I and everybody else have given up 20 months of our lives, and now we're being told actually it's not over. The rhetoric and all the noises right now sound as if we are going into exactly the same position as last year. Can someone explain to me what the point of the vaccine was? I mean I thought this was supposed to have made the situation a lot better and yet we are being told it's going to be just as bad as last ... it could be worse than last year. Well, what's the vaccine for then?
-- Kevin O'Sullivan and Dr. Renee Hoenderkamp
Oct. 2021
Collective public health is a socialist communistic ideal and has no place in democracies. It is not anyone else's problem to protect the health of some stranger.
-- Brent Cutforth
If you can't question it, don't call it science.
-- PragerU
What it seems to me that public trust requires now is a willingness for an open discussion about the evidence on which decisions are made.
In order that decisions are based on the old principle that a democracy is government by explanation. It isn't enough just to tell people.
You have to explain why you have made the decisions you have based on the evidence that's available to you at the time.
Science particularly in the evolution of this pandemic, there are different views in the scientific community. Surely the mistake I think [political] ministers make is to imagine that somehow science speaks with one voice. That's not the case. We all know that there are different views among the scientists, and that’s why ministers when they appear at a podium and say science says x undermine their own credibility, because science never says something with a single voice.
-- Former UK Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell
If this was a real pandemic why haven’t the homeless been wiped out? Why aren’t there mass funerals happening every day? Why were the hospital staff being furloughed for the last 18 months?
-- Mike Loncar
For 18 months the (Covid) death toll was published on state TV every single day… Every single day. Now the excess death rate is rising to very worrying levels… and nothing from state TV.
-- pseudonym Dilliagaftiers
[People] are conflating (as is the media and government) the virus Sars-Cov-2 and the disease that it causes which is Covid19. They are conflating them on purpose because they want the public to think that the purported ‘cases’ of positive PCR are cases of Covid19. A PCR test can only detect bits of virus (i.e. Sars-Cov-2). It cannot tell you if you have the disease (Covid19). This is a huge scandal and straight up fraud!
-- some internet person
The issue has nothing to do with who is a scientist and who is not. The issue has everything to do with independence of mind and the willingness to canvas and investigate the spectrum of opinion, debate, clinical reports and authoritative documents, as well as the affiliations of their proponents.
-- David Solway
A solution to all of this is literally to just leave people alone.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The West is firmly in the grip, not of a virus, but of delusional madness.
-- Neil Oliver
You need to comply your way into gaining your freedoms!
-- JP Sears
At no time in history have the people forcing others into compliance been the good guys.
-- somebody on the internet
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-- Joseph Goebbels
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
-- Ayn Rand
Informed consent is not coercion, extortion, blackmail, discrimination, segregation, harassment, threats, or intimidation.
-- somebody on the internet
Government/health mandates have not made sense since ‘Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve’. Unelected power-soaked bureaucrats advising low-functioning politicians how to run the country has resulted in a mess of epic proportions that we have now and will suffer from for years.
-- Bob Morrison
Beginning with 'two weeks to flatten the curve' 19 months ago, every edict and restriction imposed on Canadians was supposed to return us to normal life. Each one has only further eroded our liberties. The 'new normal' they have in mind for us is endless government tyranny.
-- Derek Sloan
The fatal blow for a free society is the sleight of hand that convinces a population it's more important to restrict their neighbors than their government.
-- unknown attribution
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
-- Selwyn Duke
“Except for an extreme case, where someone is a direct threat to others, government should never force people to put things into their own bodies. That’s tyranny.”
-- John Stossel’
It's a common cold in the unvaccinated. The majority of people if you're healthy and well ... great. It's turning into what all coronaviruses become over time. It's turning into a common cold for most people. I'm not anti-vaccine; I'm pro good science.
I don't think we need to be coercing people into a shot where one of the potential side effects is death. In order to keep your job, you have to get a shot for which one of the side effects is death. Is that right? That's not moral; that's not ethical.
It's a benevolent mutation. It is acting more like a common cold. Viruses always mutate. And it's going to be among us for a long time probably, at an endemic level.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
If the vaccine passport idea was so great, supporters wouldn't need to resort to ludicrous comparisons like driver's licenses, childhood immunization booklets, or flu shots. They could simply show the science behind it. But there is no science - nothing but quackery and hatred.
-- Milhouse Van Houten
Covid fanatics aren't concerned with people's health anymore. Their goal is to punish dissent and persecute those who reject their narrative, even if it means further damaging our healthcare system and negating our fundamental rights and freedoms.
-- Maxime Bernier
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance”
-- George Bernard Shaw
Statistics aside this is not a vaccine, look up the definition, it’s a flu shot. When I got polio and Smallpox vaccine I did not get these diseases! The very fact that people are still not only contracting COVID but dying after being fully ‘vaccinated’ only proves this.
-- Rosemary Lambert
If I had 3 Smallpox shots in 9 months and still got Smallpox I would have some questions.
-- Danielle Kemble-Hudson
As someone who grew up in the Middle East, who grew up in Saudi Arabia, there's something ironic and actually quite amusing about this notion that face coverings are now mandated in supposedly free countries and cities. Again I've simply maintained my position. I'm not against masks themselves, I'm not against vaccines themselves. I'm against mandate, I'm against the use of the state or government force to force these things upon free people. We're not living in North Korea, we're not living in China. If you live in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Western Europe - these are supposed to be free countries where you recognize adults as adults, and adults are able to make their own decisions.
In a particular circumstance like this, we know and we've known for a very long time, that this particular virus affects people differently based on their age, based on their comorbidities, based on their general health. Lots of different factors, and everyone is different. Everyone has a different risk analysis and a different risk profile.
And the government doesn't care about you more than you care about yourself. The government doesn't care about your family or your friends more than you care about them. And there's suddenly been this absurd notion in this - all of a sudden it's like other people are responsible for your own health now. We've never thought about that before. If you got sick in the past, nobody would think to blame that on another individual. Just living life. Everything has risk in it. None of us get out of this world alive. People were dying and getting sick prior to 2020 and we've always had diseases, we've always had vaccines. None of this stuff is new. What is new is the level of hype, and I would say propaganda, that has surrounded this particular virus which has resulted in this global mass psychosis where a lot of people now are literally living by rules they previously never would have advocated for, or thought believable in their own countries.
And in some cases are even advocating against ... very, very anti-liberty, anti-freedom, anti-democratic policies, which is what it is. So I don't even call myself anti-lockdown or anti-that. I'm simply pro-liberty, I'm pro-freedom. I simply am advocating for what everyone claimed they used to believe a year and a half ago.
All around the world ... people are not running off of data and common sense, and people are not willing to have these conversations. The level of demonization that's been going on for everybody who is simply pro-liberty, pro-freedom - trying to label them as anti-vaxxers or trying to say that they don't care about public health or they're trying to get people killed. It's all absurd. It's all emotion, it's all programming, and I stand against that.
People keep saying trust the experts, follow the science. But that's not what people are doing. People are just running off of whatever they've been told to believe. They're not adjusting their positions when new information comes out and there have just been so many layers of absurdity and hypocrisy and truly anti-scientific nonsense going on.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Society is now being divided by manufactured consent. The ‘good’, those complying with government mandates, no matter how unscientific or illogical, are rewarded with freedoms that have been taken away by the inflated fear of covid-19. Like the basic ability to work, travel, go to university, or watch a movie. While the ‘bad’, most medically unable to take the vaccine, or those simply exercising their human and constitutional right not to take one, are being punished, denied full participation in society.
We’ve been pushed to the edge of a cliff through divisiveness and fearmongering, over a virus whose median age of death in Canada is greater than average life expectancy.
-- Dr. Emag Guirguis
It seems like more and more people are becoming giant balls of mental instability. Hatred and anger. And when I say hatred and anger, I'm not just talking about your average rude comment. I'm talking about a sick kind of soulless cruelty to the extent that they're publicly wishing for the financial and reputational destruction, imprisonment, and even the deaths of those they regard to be their opponents in some way.
-- Britney Sellner
When it comes to coverage of COVID-19, the legacy media is failing to inform Canadians on integral information that would help the public understand the virus better.
Many Canadians are unwilling to learn to live COVID-19 and obsessed with case numbers and strict public health measures, such as vaccine passports.
-- Anthony Furey
“The absurdocracy begins when countries receive protocols drawn up by the WHO and apply them as if they were a dogmatic salvation brought by the gods, ceasing to apply their own scientific knowledge, ethics, deontology, critical thinking and verification effectively and clinic of those protocols acquired as their own. Suddenly almost all health workers stop having a logical task of control and care of their patients to become practically mere machines that follow the protocols regardless of their logic and result, or the evidence that can be interpreted from their application.”
-- Vaccine Choice Canada
That is what is massively depressing – the ease with which totalitarian police states have emerged across the board with scarcely a murmur of protest.
-- somebody on the internet
I am preparing myself against the urge to vomit when I see the usual knee-jerk wearing of poppies in October (the competitive virtue-signalling gets earlier by the year) by the zombies who have absolutely no f**king idea what it’s all about. Watch the masked bands of hypocrites at the Cenotaph insulting the dead by tremulously wearing masks as wreaths are laid.
'Land of the Free' ... "
-- Rick H
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity towards those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
-- Bertrand Russel
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
-- Christopher Hitchens
Firing hospital staff over vaccination status wouldn’t even be a possible consideration in a real pandemic.
-- Daniel Alexander
“The majority of Canadians have been clamouring for vaccine passports as a way to make them feel safer about COVID-19. But while feeling safe isn’t the same as actually being safe, politicians are rushing ahead with these polarizing policies anyway.”
-- Anthony Furey
Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it.
Imagine a virus so deadly people must be coerced into taking a jab to protect themselves against it.
Imagine a vaccine so safe that the government granted them a blanket immunity against all financial liability for adverse reactions to it. Imagine how safe the manufacturer believes the vaccine to be for them to demand such immunity in the first place.
-- some people on the internet
As a very high % of our population is "fully" vaccinated (or at least "partially") - we should expect that the dominant circulating variant will always be one that has a selective advantage to infect vaccinated people.
The fact that it spreads is PROOF that vaccinated spread it.
This obviously negates ANY logic or reason for a vaccine passport.
-- some people on the internet
“If you have to be persuaded, reminded pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized. If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance – you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.”
-- various people on the internet
The thing freaking me out is the authoritarian "next door." I used to wonder "how did the holocaust happen? How did Rwanda happen? How did Mao happen?" and now I realize the authoritarians are all over the place, lying dormant, waiting for something to scare them.
-- Jesse Parker
We think we’ve come so far … torture of heretics, burning of witches; all ancient history.
Then before you can blink an eye, suddenly it threatens to start all over again.
Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot; those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.
People like her will always be with us – waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness.
Vigilance … that is the price we have to continually pay.
-- writer for Star Trek
When doctors and nurses refuse the vaccine you know something is very wrong.
-- Cathy Hastings Jancowski
Society loves a scapegoat. It's comforting to be part of a majority that can point at a minority to blame for their ills.
The scapegoats that we are ostracizing today are those who are choosing not to get vaccinated.
-- Cory Morgan
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious who comes ambling along.
-- Carl Sagan
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
-- Thomas Paine
"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?"
-- Sam Harris
It was supposed to be a fight against the pandemic to protect the people. It became a fight against the people to protect the pandemic.
-- [somebody on the internet]
I detest inauthentic people. I highly respect authentic people even if I may disagree with their positions and/or behaviours. Authenticity is one of the great qualities of an individual's personhood. Many so-called "intellectuals" are defined by their inauthenticity.
-- Gad Saad
There are likely over a billion people in the world right now who are literally afraid to breathe fresh air unimpeded and who get triggered by seeing smiling faces.
It's horrible and the media is responsible for creating such a level of hysteria and distrust of fellow humans. It used to be 'healthy until proven sick' but now it's 'sick until proven healthy'. People need to understand that's a disease in itself.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
-- Charles Bukowski
The COVID19 vaccines are the only products in world history where failure of the products is blamed on the people who don't use them.
-- Kelly Victory
In a FREE society, there is no banning of information because it is "linguistic violence," "hate speech," "misinformation," "disinformation," and other fascist euphemisms. The marketplace of ideas is the mechanism by which you adjudicate the veracity of your ideas.
-- Gad Saad
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
-- CS Lewis
"Beware. In general, science doesn't work by consensus. If it requires consensus statements, it usually means that power and control are at hand. But it isn't science that says 'follow the science'. It's politics in scientist clothing."
-- Eric Weinstein
When we were kids, we were punished for lying. Now, we are punished for telling the truth. When you incentivise lies over the truth, you get more lies. And any society built upon deception is dangerous and unsustainable. So stop lying.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Of all the vaccines I have taken in my life like Tetanus shots, measles, mumps, polio, meningitis, TB shots, etc... Never have I heard so many lies and deceptions over a vaccine that says I have to wear a mask and socially distance even when fully vaccinated, and that I could still contract or spread the virus even after being fully vaccinated.
Never had to get tested when I was perfectly healthy without any symptoms whatsoever.
Never been bribed by the establishments to take the vaccine in order to win a holiday and/or cash prizes - tickets to the football or earn frequent flyer points.
I never had to worry about cardiac issues, neurological disorders, blood clots and sadly more!
Didn't even have to worry about death.
Never was I ever THREATENED by the use of FORCE by the Government, Employers, Police force, and Military for a vaccine as seen here in Australia and overseas.
I was never judged by my friends or relatives if I didn't take it. I was never discriminated against for travel or other regular services to a point where I could not buy or sell without it.
The vaccines I have listed above never told me I was a bad person for not taking them or for even taking them for that matter.
I have never seen a vaccine that threatened the relationship between my family members and/or close friends to a point of destroying my relationships with them over it.
Never have I seen it used for political gain. Never seen a vaccine needing 24/7 mass media advertising and promotion on every media outlet known to mankind. Then there’s mixing and matching different vaccine brands and being told it's okay to do it one day and then told the next day to not do it.
I have never seen a vaccine threaten someone's livelihood, as well as wipe out their jobs. I have never seen a vaccine that allows a 12-year-old child's consent to supersede their parent's consent (that one alone blows me away).
Finally, after all the vaccines (jab, shots) I listed above, I have never seen a vaccine like this one that discriminates, divides, and judges a society. So much information is censored, deleted, and removed from the internet and mainstream media!
So many doctors, health care professionals, police and scientists are censored and forbidden to speak out or ask legitimate questions when what is being allowed or not allowed does not make sense! Particularly when it comes from mainstream media. I have never known a vaccine that has made all the Pharmaceutical companies that manufacture it exempt from liability if it kills everyone to a point where no life insurance will cover it!
This is one powerful vaccine guys! It does all these things above that I have mentioned and yet....
It does NOT do the ONE thing it is supposed to do- which is...?
FIGHT OFF THIS PANDEMIC!
So why on earth would I get it?"
-- somebody on the internet
It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere.
-- Voltaire
“The cultivation of fear has been a centerpiece of public health policy since the beginning of the pandemic. This is plainly wrong. One might call it abusive.”
-- Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
"We have the ideology of Covidism, whereby everything must give way to the sole objective of stopping the spread of a single virus. Nothing else matters. Covidism's kernel of truth is that people make reasonable efforts to protect seniors and other vulnerable individuals but it perverts and corrupts this truth by imposing unscientific measures that destroy our economy, shred the fabric of civil society, harm our mental and physical health and drive people into unemployment, poverty, depression, anxiety and despair."
-- John Carpay
We basically have a society now that is traumatized by fear and therefore they literally can't think for themselves anymore. They need the constant reassurances from media and government that they will be taken care of.
-- somebody on the internet paraphrasing some doctor
The church was right to stop Galileo from spreading misinformation. As we know, the authority is always correct and conspiracy theorists like Galileo are always proven wrong in the end.
-- Tim Pool
Standing up for yourself does not mean you are starting trouble. Don’t allow narcissists to manipulate you into believing you are argumentative. You have a right to express yourself without always being shut down.
-- Maria Consiglio
Ask yourself this question – if government is permitted to coerce and compel what you inject into your body, who has ownership/control of your body and mind – the government or you? If you can’t own yourself, can you own anything?
-- Randy Hillier
Tyrants are not the problem. People obeying tyrants is the only problem. The people have the power and always have.
-- somebody on the internet
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
-- Herbert Hoover
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
-- Baron de Montesquieu
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
A lot of people are against losing our rights to tyrannical governments and having illegal mandates shoved down our throat. Hundreds of thousands of our young men, kids a lot of them, died protecting our freedoms and I can't believe Canadians are ok with that. I wonder how many hypocrites will show up on Remembrance Day.
-- Kevin Hankins
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.
-- Banksy
Standing up for what is right is never easy in the face of angry mobs fueled by fear. But holding the line is indeed what we must now do. Whatever our personal medical choice happens to be, we should support the healthcare workers losing their jobs, the dissenting doctors who bravely speak out, and all of the people attempting to abide by their conscience in these difficult times. We must defend the perimeters of our own bodies and reject the obnoxious idea that anyone else should be able to decree that we be injected with whatever they happen to believe we should be forced to accept. This is a very slippery slope on which we must refuse to step. If we surrender our bodily autonomy to the government, then we will have nothing left. Wrong is wrong. Do not comply.
-- Laurie Calhoun
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
-- Ezra Pound
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
-- Johann Goethe
Politicians have figured out a set of persuasion techniques that work like a charm:
You claim something won’t happen.
When it starts happening, you claim it’s not happening.
Then, you switch to claiming that it’s good that it’s happening.
You say anyone who opposes what’s happening is an extremist and is ‘putting people at risk.’
You talk about how ‘the vast majority’ support what’s happening, to build up the bandwagon effect.
Finally, you direct all the fear and anger towards those who continue opposing what’s happening, and who ‘dare’ to point out the hypocrisy.
Sadly, it works.
-- Spencer Fernando
In the current milieu of contending claims and ever-changing narratives, and the evident failures of national Covid-19 policies – heavily vaccinated Iceland, Gibraltar, the U.K and Israel, for example, have experienced a significant rise rather than a reduction of cases– the government vaccine mandate is also in likely contravention of Section 1 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It “guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
In the current context of statistical variance, inconsistent testimony, conflicting reports and factious disaccord among the experts, as well as the example of other non-compliant countries such as Sweden and most recently Denmark, the “limits” to Section 1’s abrogation are by no means “reasonable.” Nor are they “demonstrably justified” – they are simply imposed by decrees that are often concocted behind closed doors during moments of panic.
The collateral and perhaps irreparable damage – social, political, economic – unleashed by government policies is not in doubt. They need to be rigorously re-assessed.
-- David Solway
Understand the creatures doing this to the core of their being... their defining trait is their obsession with controlling others.
If you look at these politicians their own lives are completely out of control... insanely so. Yet they seek to control others with a zealotry that would make any cult in history jealous.
-- Alan Cross
What's not taught in school is that science is a way of learning what is and is not true. The scientific method is a way of ensuring that your own bias does not leave you thinking something is true that is not, or that something is not true that is.
Science is a means of querying nature. And when we have enough experiments and enough observations, only then can we say: This is how nature behaves, whether you like it or not. And that is when science contributes to what is to what is objectively true in the world.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The one thing you can say about mandated vaccines ... it doesn't matter whether these are the best vaccines (they're not even vaccines, they're viral-based genetic therapies, but for short I'm going to call them vaccines) ... it doesn't really matter what's in them, it doesn't matter what the side-effects are, all that doesn't matter. What really matters is this: if you accede to the principle that someone can tell you what to put in your body, whether it's the government or your boss, you don't own your body. And by definition, you're a slave. That is the only thing that matters here.
-- Dr. Lee Merritt
We were treated kindly in the beginning, "stay home and stay safe". But when some would not comply after the short curve turned into a year and a half with more and more restrictions... And healthcare workers, and families losing their jobs and businesses, are objecting to the experimental jab because of health reasons or other reasonable objections, we were silenced. Cancelled. Discussion and debate is shut down. Then we were told, then threatened, fined, then punished. While others who complied were rewarded.
-- Diane Earl
The current public health Zeitgeist of 'vaccinate everyone at any cost" has squeezed out any room for nuance or reasoned discussion.
-- Christine Van Geyn
Viagra began life as a high-blood-pressure medication. Hair-restorer Rogaine was originally an ulcer pill. The sleep aid Trazodone was intended as an anti-depressant. Medical history is filled with stories of repurposed drugs yielding useful or even miraculous results. Yet in the midst of a global pandemic that has taken millions of lives, innovation of this sort has become all-but officially forbidden. Dedicated physicians seeking new ways to treat their patients during the early stages of Covid-19 using inexpensive over-the-counter or repurposed medications have been harassed and bullied by the scientific/medical/regulatory establishment. [There is a] sinister institutional antipathy towards potential Covid-19 treatments aimed at keeping patients out of the hospital.
-- Margret Kopala
There’s a debate to be had whether the definite harm inflicted upon identified people for the sake of relieving some indeterminate degree of risk to others is proportionate. It’s still to be seen how many people’s lives will be upended, potentially irreparably, by these policies in comparison to the reduction in hospitalizations that is counted as their principal justification.
The vaccines’ inability to reliably prevent transmission should delegitimize mandates. The further disregard for naturally acquired immunity when it comes to mandates is particularly baffling.
-- Travis D. Smith, PhD
The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.
-- [multiple attribution]
The obedient view themselves as virtuous, never cowardly. Now that 'science' is admitting fault, people will say 'but I did my best and I trusted the science!'. Problem is - you were lied to the whole time, you're medically damaged, and you couldn't discern truth from $cience.
-- Dr. Brad Campbell
Imagine letting your family members die afraid and alone because the government forbade you from being with them in their final moments. Imagine patting yourselves on the back and considering yourself virtuous for allowing this. Imagine calling it 'for the greater good'. Imagine.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.
-- Booker T Washington
Being able to work, access public places, move freely, and travel in your own country and abroad are not privileges that can be arbitrarily taken away from some people by politicians. In a free society based on the rule of law, they are fundamental rights. Are we still one?
-- Maxime Bernier
I have concerns about the effects of this kind of censorship on public discourse and quite frankly on the advancement of science. Even scientists use social media now to communicate their ideas with the general public, with other scientists. And anyone who knows anything about science or the methods of science, or how science makes progress, understands that at its essence, at its core, science is about debate, it's about hypothesis generation, it's about offering conjectures, plausible ideas, and then testing them and refuting them.
So science just is conjectures and refutations. If you get into a room with a bunch of scientists, all they ever do is argue; they argue about data, they argue about their theories they argue about which theory best fits the data, they argue about big questions, and they argue about tiny little subtleties that only the specialist and sub-specialists and sub-sub-specialties would understand. But science is an ongoing debate; that's just what it is. So anyone who shuts down an ongoing debate in the name of science is killing science. They don't know the first thing about science. Science and censorship just are incompatible.
-- Aaron Kheriaty
Update: I am still unvaccinated.
I survived the greatest psychological fear campaign in human history.
I choose to operate at a frequency above fear. I see our media and governments for what they are now: powerless without our incessant fear.
The emperors have no clothes.
Once you wake up to the truth, your life will become yours.
Fear is a drug. Most of us are addicts, and governments worldwide are the dealers.
The more we feast on the fear they sell, the larger and wealthier these monsters become.
Any personal decision that I make will never be because of propaganda or brainwash or censorship or mandates or fear.
I am truly free.
-- Candace Owens
The latest ... “no jab, no job” is reprehensible in a land such as Canada. As a retiree and a school bus driver for over a decade now, I was given the option of either getting inoculated or face testing three times per week.
Both are medical procedures I am not comfortable with, so I took the third option — retiring (quitting). This was not my “choice.” I’m in excellent health for being 72, but I could take that third “option” when many cannot. How do you pay the bills and feed the kids with no income? Often, you’re not even eligible for EI or welfare, because you quit and the government took that avenue away.
This isn’t Canada. Forcing people to quit under these conditions is barbaric.
-- Ron Hofman
I had minimal repercussions from the covid. I had chills; I didn't even have fever; and I had a cough, and I slept a lot. That was the entirety of my covid.
I've had flu in the past which was much worse and much more uncomfortable.
-- Dennis Prager
It's especially sad that this [freedom from medical tyranny] is beyond merely a 'controversial' take, but totally demonised by a scarily large segment of the population who seemed ready & willing to put on a brown shirt and goose step against former friends & family who didn't fall in line with what the media tells them to do. We have more than enough data from modern history alone to know better than to go down this road again, yet here we are.
-- Kris Greaves
What is happening to us? You can’t even ride a chairlift (outside at a ski hill) without showing your papers? When did we become so complacent that we have to show our papers and personal health records to a hostess to sit in a restaurant? You can go to a mall and walk around sipping a coffee … but better show your papers to go into the food court. What’s next? Show your papers to walk on the sidewalk? And sports are completely out. Why are the vaccinated so insane?
-- Dee Bebs
Dictators and tyrants are often born through a genuine desire to do good – but when their approach fails, and relinquishing power would cause a self-inflicted wound, illiberalism often follows.
-- Aaron Siri
For my friends and family who have recently gotten their Covid shot or who know they will get one soon, awesome for you. I can see how relieved you are and I’m so glad that this option is available for you!
For my friends who aren’t sure they will get one just yet, or maybe ever, or already know that they never will, I want to throw some love and respect your way, too. I am happy that you have that choice. Medical freedom is important. AND let me add, SHOULD NEVER BE MANDATED
The wonderful thing about informed consent is that two people with the same information, can make two completely different choices and neither of them is right or wrong. That is what medical freedom is and should be.
There are benefits and risks to every medical procedure. Doing the “right thing” means you’ve weighed the risks and benefits for YOURself, and are making an informed decision! The only wrong decision in my opinion, is made:
>>purely out of fear,
>>>social pressure or
>>>>emotional reactivity.
If you have researched your decision and are comfortable with it....GREAT.
What’s right for one person, may be wrong for the other. Both, on an INTUITIVE and BIOLOGICAL level. We’re all doing the best we can with the information we hopefully have spent time digging into.
Let this be a gentle reminder *for all* to please respect each other and be mindful of the message we put out there. Is everyone “wrong” because they believe differently than you? They very likely have just as strong of a reason for their choice as you do.
So whether you choose;
C0V1D shot
No shot
You’re okay in my books and I respect YOUR DECISION
Projecting hateful language at others because they made a decision that was BEST for them, is NOT OKAY. This only creates more division.
-- somebody on the internet
This is medical tyranny at its finest ...
Cruel and unfair treatment by people with powers over others.
Violating civil rights by legalizing discrimination against vulnerable individuals susceptible to harm from one size fits all medical procedures and vaccine policies that fail to respect biological diversity and the limitations of scientific knowledge.
The government made it political, its not about health care ... no accountability, no transparency, using threats to push their radical agenda. As well, the media has been bought off and told what to say by the government.
Health care is about taking care of the sick, but we're not being very preventative about it. Informed consent is all of a sudden a thing of the past.
We now live in an age where we must fight for our freedoms and liberties, safety and securities ... for ourselves, our children, their children, our elderly, our military, our law enforcement, our health workers, etc. We are being grossly censored for having an opinion; ridiculed, harrassed, and demeaned for not conforming to the mainstream's warped ideologies.
We are trapped between believing the lies of the government and media versus believing the hard truths revealed by alternative, independent and unbiased news media. Our sense of trust has been decimated beyond recognition, as we wade through the dense fog of coercion, ultimatums, intimidation, blind compliance, unneccesary restrictions, relentless threats, and so forth.
Our Constitution is no longer protected, adhered to and looked upon as the laws of the land, something to be revered as citizens of our respective countries.
The idea that doctors all across the world are blatantly threatened and coerced into telling their patients to consume certain medications, prescriptions, vaccines and other health regimens which are completely against their oath of office, against what they believe is best for the patients being treated under their care.
We live in a free country, and as such we should have the power to do what we want to do, and have the ability to move and act freely without consternation, contempt, offence, vitriol, and utter ignorance and naivety from a detrimental group of people!!
-- Dawn K. Martin
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
-- Michael Crichton
[On employers not allowing exemptions or accommodations]
If we had the rule of law, they would be working a lot more.
A lot of these things, they only work if people are actually following the law, and they have a strong incentive to follow the law, and a disincentive not to follow the law.
The disincentive to loot the store is that you will be caught by the police, you will be charged, and you will be thrown in jail, and you will get a criminal record. That disincentive is usually quite strong because you're usually thinking ok I'm likely to get caught and this law is not likely to change after I get caught. So what you're having right now is like the images of looting in the States, and there's all these riots and stuff. If you have ten police officers but a hundred men who want to loot the store, what's going to happen? The rule of law is going to break down in that situation. Those men are going to loot, and they're going to get away with it. And that's essentially what you're seeing right now with all these employers all across the country. They're all doing this all at once, and they're getting away with it. And they're all seeing each other and saying hey, Bob's getting away with this; Jim's getting away with this; ok well we can do it too. Who's going to hold us accountable? Courts are on our side and they can't keep up anyways cause we're all doing this all at once, so we can loot everybody's rights and get away with it.
That's the breakdown of the rule of law and that's what you're seeing right now.
So that's why on both the employment law side and the religious accommodation, human rights side, you're seeing wholesale abrogation of rights, is because there's no rule of law. There's no disincentive to employers to not respect your rights. And what incentive would be there to respect your rights. Well the only incentive would be to not get in trouble. Like I said, that's not there. There's no public relations incentive, there's no human decency incentive, because if you're unvaccinated, you're socially and culturally regarded as second class, as a leper, as an undesireable, as somebody worthy of discriminating against. Maybe it's not as bad as, but it's analogous to being a Jew in 1930s Germany. It's kind of how the unvaccinated are being treated.
-- James Kitchen, lawyer
So disgusting to see the promotion of discrimination lately.
Someone who is hesitant or scared to get it should not be pressured, threatened with job loss, mocked, coerced or forced.
This is so wrong.
-- social media page The Independent Canadian
[Vaccine mandates have made a society] divided between people who think the government should decide what goes into your body, and are ok with discrimination - and people who know that all medical treatments are private and personal, and know it’s wrong to discriminate.
-- Eva Karczmarczyk Kryzanowski
The government is the real virus. The media is the super spreader.
-- social media page Freedom Matters in Canada
Remember when Canadians were looking enviously at Europe and their high rates of early vaccination? While Canucks were complaining about being at the back of the line European countries like Germany were injecting in Jan/Feb/Mar.....we didn't really get rolling until April/May.
So they're two to three months ahead of us.....and experiencing worse outbreaks than last year when NOBODY was vaccinated. How can that be? Occam's Razor has the answer.....if the vaccines really worked then things would be better in Europe right now, not worse.
And our turn is coming....we're just a few months behind. Keep taking those boosters for the immunizations that don't immunize.
-- Gordie Canuck
Some people wouldn’t know tyranny if it covered their faces, locked them in their homes, enacted the biggest wealth transfer in history, censored them, made them show papers, and force medicated them.
-- FrancisxONeill
"The government has a dilemma, they need to convince the unjabbed to get jabbed because it works while at the same time convince the jabbed they need a booster because it doesn't."
-- somebody on the internet
Next door neighbor is a cardiologist who treats covid patient. Two things he’s told me: (1) if you walked through the ICU, you would not be surprised by anyone you saw; and (2) take vitamin D.
-- K.B.M
Most people don't want the truth because the truth is so hard, they prefer to stay in their regular comfort zone.
-- [redacted]
You're absolutely right, we can't give up. This v@x doesn't even prevent us from catching the virus, neither does it prevent us from spreading it— so then why is our livelihood being held hostage?
-- [redacted]
They'll just convince people (it won't be hard at all really) that by getting a 3rd shot and vaccinating their kids, herd immunity will be attained. And then the herd will follow orders, and there still won't be herd immunity.
-- [redacted]
You are right. A lot of these videos are telling the truth. It's hard to believe that over 80% of the population don't or can't see it.
-- [redacted]
Are people really that ignorant that they don't see the facts, the adverse effects and the lack of effectiveness of these so called vaccines? I keep hearing trust the science. Guess what... there is always 2 sides to the story and there are many scientists, doctors etc that are showing that the risks outweigh the benefits. Just because the majority of people choose something doesn't make it right. It makes my head spin.
-- [redacted]
What I want is for you to make the best decisions for your health. That’s not my business, not the media’s business, not your boss’s business & not Justin Trudeau’s business. If privacy & individual health decisions no longer matter, we’re in big trouble. This is worth the fight.
--Jedediah Bila
Kids have a 99.9978% chance of surviving this disease if contracted. Vaccination is futile in terms of preventing illness, but they will make these kids more susceptible to autoimmune disease and infectious diseases generally.
These jabs for kids have no science behind them.
-- Greg Nigh
I am not vaccinated. In a sane society, a personal decision like this would not warrant a column, or even an explanation. But we do not live in a sane society.
The vaccine helps protect the vaccinated from dying, but it does not protect the vaccinated from either getting or spreading COVID. In other words, it seems clear to many of us that the vaccine is a personal health benefit, not a public health benefit. Therefore, whether to get vaccinated is a profoundly personal decision, not a public health decision.
-- Lisa Boothe
In Medicine, "Informed Consent" involves providing a risk-benefit analysis - based on science.
Ransoming a patient's social status & full participation in society is NOT part of that equation.
-- The RN Rant
Gibraltar is 100% vaccinated and about 40% having the booster shots. They just cancelled Christmas celebrations because of the high rise of Covid. If 100% vaxxed does not stop it, then it is time to open up. Take a look at Sweden, and their practice of no lockdowns, no passports, no coercion to get the vax.
-- Sheila Bell
I didn't think I'd be living in a time where we would have to have arguments about tyranny, actually, which is potentially I think, what is coming. I know it's a big, big word, but a kind of biomedical tyranny is possible. And I'm not talking about lockdowns, or masks, or whatever, I'm talking about where we could be going with this kind of technological division of society. That's all on the table now. And I never thought we would be in the position of having to argue that we should not isolate a third of the people in our culture for medical reasons. Or indeed argue that we shouldn't censor the
media.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
I'll start off by saying that, for me, it's always worth taking a step back and looking at the context. The decision to be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated, which ought to be a personal medical decision that everybody could take, becoming a proxy for something much bigger, which is a conversation about the kind of society that we want to live in. And a conversation about the authoritarianism, that is rising very, very fast for which the vaccines, or vaccination status, are being used as a proxy. So there are two conversations you can have. Firstly, there's the one about 'is the vaccine safe, and should you have it?' and that's a conversation that's been going on for a long time, which everybody is furious about increasingly, because this whole conversation has fallen into the ruts of the culture war. And that will go on, and on, and on. And again, as I say, it's a personal decision whether you do that or not.
But then there's the other conversation, which is about 'whether your vaccine status should be used to demonstrate your acceptable position in society'. Now, that is something radically new, that is something radically new. Conversations about whether a medication is safe - old as the hills, especially new medications like this one in a situation like this. But conversations about creating a society in which you can only access many of its services, and many of its positions with a digital passport that explains that you had a particular medication - that's a Rubicon.
We've never had anything like this before, we've never had the technology to do it. So what we've got is a kind of proxy discussion. People are arguing about the vaccines, but they're really, under the surface, arguing about what kind of person you are. If you have taken these things, whether you're a good or a bad person, or a clean or unclean one. I've been watching this for a long time, as we all have. And I think my personal Rubicon was watching what happened in Austria. Where it suddenly became acceptable to move on from vaccine passports, which were bad enough already.
But suddenly we have mandatory medication. We have vaccine mandates. Of course, we have what's been going on in the United States where people have been walking out of their jobs in huge numbers, because of this enforcement. And so we have this situation in which the scapegoat mechanism is kicking in. We can very, very clearly see the so-called unvaxed, who are often represented as 'anti-vax', or 'far-Right actors', or general
conspiracy nuts, becoming the new class of people it's acceptable to demonise, and abuse, and even threaten to kill. And that's where we are now, because of the choice that people have made. And this is being used to justify an authoritarian society, in my view.
The question you have as an individual is where you want to draw the line. And that's a personal question for everybody. And I'm drawing my line at
'lockdowns of the unvaccinated'. And I'm drawing my line at 'vaccine passport'. And I'm drawing my line at 'something that segregates us'.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
Along has come this other issue, which is also about institutional trust. Because broadly speaking, the thesis position is people who trust what the science is said to be, and what the government says, and what the public health advisors say, and is very suspicious of any dissent. And this is how they have managed to - and the justification for that - comes from, 'we have to protect lives, right?' A lot of people say this, 'well, it's very dangerous to question this'. So if you've told yourself that the authorities are correct, broadly speaking, and this is the way to go, and we've got an urgent situation, we have to protect lives, then you can justify almost anything. You can justify social media shutting down conversations, you can justify the media deliberately taking one side of the story all the time and ignoring the other one, you could justify vaccine passports, you can justify lockdowns of the unvaxed, what can you not justify if you get to that position? So I think that people, broadly speaking, who for good reasons, because they think this is a public health thing, are cleaving to a particular narrative, and are very frightened of allowing the other one even to come into the conversation.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
The whole of society has been pretty much terrified for the last two years of this virus. Now you could argue about whether it should have been that way or not. But because we're frightened - fear is a great controlling device. People are frightened, so they will accept things now that they wouldn't have accepted before. I don't think anyone would have imagined - even lockdowns. I remember this discussion on the first lockdown, 'would people in the West ever accept anything like this?' I don't know if you remember watching the first cases of lockdowns in China, and saying, "oh, I'm glad we don't have anything like that here, you couldn't imagine it in Britain". But it didn't take long for it to happen everywhere. Now again, I'm not arguing that it wasn't the right thing to do. But we've seen a very big, vast shift in what I suppose is a kind of technological Overton window, towards what we're prepared to accept.
If you talk to most people about this, they are concerned about it. But they don't connect it with this, because a lot of people feel, 'look, we just have to get rid of this, this is really frightening and it's dangerous'. It is dangerous. I'm not playing this down at all. If you're elderly and vulnerable it's a nasty thing, and you need to be very careful with it. I'm not suggesting a sort of blase attitude to the virus. But what we're accepting in the name of tackling it is becoming increasingly disturbing.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
There's so many fractures and cracks in Western society. This COVID has acted like a literally apocalyptic thing. Because the word 'apocalypse' literally means 'revelation'. It's shown us a lot of things about our society that we could afford to avoid before. One of them being how utterly broken the whole thing was and how fractured. And the ideal scenario would be that there are no coercive measures, especially coercive measures that divide people. So you might want to argue about lockdowns, but a lockdown is a coercive measure that involves everybody. Okay, so fine, that's one thing. A vaccine mandate is a coercive measure that divides people. So the sane thing to do would be to say, "right, as a society, because we value our social cohesion, and because it's not simply about getting the numbers of this infection down, we have to consider wider things like the long term impacts of whether we can work as a culture, we're not going to do coercive measures that divide people". Again, some countries have done that. And the other obvious thing to do would be for both sides to leave their extremists to the extremes and actually try to talk to each other. You don't have to believe that this is a conspiracy to kill everybody. Neither do you have to believe that everybody who doesn't like vaccines is a neo-fascist. You can just leave those people to scream on Twitter, and try to have a conversation. And at a personal level, that's something everybody can do.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
Tolerance seems to be arriving soon at the point where the clever / intelligent ones will be forbidden to think, as it will offend the feelings of the ignorant / stupid ones.
-- unattributed
The vaccine scientists and researchers and leading immunologists forecasted over-vaccinating the healthy with leaky "emergency use approved (EUA) only and still under investigation" injectables produces the expected viral offshoot cases as they have seen in animal studies (Marek's disease etc.) going back two decades of research of mRNA vaccine experimentation in animals. And, they also stated the fact injecting spike proteins does not prevent future transmission of a coronavirus and yet it took almost a year before that was announced officially a couple of months ago. I'm just a former university research cellular biochemist and molecular biologist with pharmaceutical and immunology working background
-- Rich Knowles
If you're not controversial in a world that's utterly insane, then it's time to find a mirror and ask why. If a world that's insane doesn't see you as insane, you should find a mirror and ask why? The idea is to show people that they don't need to follow anyone.
A renegade mind. What is that? Well you can have a critically thinking mind and you can put dots together and you can see something and you can see what's happening, but a critically thinking mind that can see it or at least some of it won't necessarily do anything about it. It might still conform in fear of not conforming. A renegade mind will never do that. A renegade mind is a critically thinking mind, a constantly questioning, a not taking anything on face value mind without checking it out, especially if it comes from authority.
It won't be intimidated into cooperating with tyranny because the renegade mind has
self-respect. Self-respect is the state of being that has ended every single tyranny in human history, because it's self-respect that says, no I'm not cooperating, my self-respect won't allow it. It’s all a psychological operation and they want your self-respect. A renegade mind wouldn't give it to them, but they want your self-respect because
they know that once your self-respect has been handed over there's nothing left. But what's left with you then is submission. That's all that's left, and this is why in the psychological game they put monumental morons [in charge].
They want you to see it and they want you to think all the contradictions in what these morons are telling you to do. They want you to see them because if you can see that a moron is telling you to do something, and you can see that what they're telling you to do has no basis in common sense or science, but you still do it, they've got your self-respect, and all that's left is submission. And a renegade mind will never hand over itself.
…Not frightened to death – that's the renegade mind. If you don't see what's going on and refuse to cooperate with it, by very little time from now, you, your kids, and grandkids are going to be living in a global fascist dictatorship …. If you don't want that to happen, get off your frikkin ass.
-- David Icke
It's crowd psychosis; that's what we're really talking about. [A] mass psychosis has developed. And they say you will be vaccinated now! That flies in the face of the data which shows the vaccination won't stop the spread of the virus; it doesn't matter.
We have to continue to try to provide information, accurate information. We can substitute the fear of the virus, which is irrational, for a greater threat. Totalitarianism is a bigger bogeyman than the virus by far.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Once they have made up their mind, most people would rather commit to being wrong than admit they were wrong. It doesn’t have to be like this though. Don’t run off a cliff simply because you’ve already started running towards it.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Publicly shaming a minority of people who have chosen not to undergo a medical procedure despite being relentlessly coerced by the threat of violent government persecution social ostracization and the abolition of their basic freedoms.
Woke comedians always bang on about not punching down unless you're punching down on a group of people who have been suitably demonized and monstered by leftists and the mainstream media, then I guess it's fine.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
The last time numbers were this high we were in the middle of the third wave in total lockdown and almost no one was fully vaccinated. So what doesn’t work, the lockdowns, the vaccines, or both?
-- Tom Nacu
Health officials: cases are spiking as more people stay indoors.
Also health officials: only lockdowns that keep people indoors will slow the spread.
-- Chris Hoey
The vaxxinated hate us because they’re under the impression that us injecting a vaxxine will miraculously save them, yet they’re willing to watch us lose our jobs, our homes, the ability to purchase groceries for our families......they’ll watch us suffer and face unjust punishment yet they want us to save them. They’re too dumbed down to comprehend someone else other than themselves getting a vaxxine doesn’t save them so they’re cheering on the mandates, the discrimination and segregation for nothing.
-- Allie Lynn Baker
Grocery Stores .... that can refuse entry to the "unvaccinated"? There is an entire province (state) in Canada, (New Brunswick) where the government is allowing many places including GROCERY STORES to do just that. Just another example of why I will not comply; not until it is back to being a choice. Just as all the other essential vaccines that were never forced (that, because I was free to choose), I took.
First we'll fire you, then we won't let you get groceries with what little money you may still have left. This, is supposed, to be, freedom?
All this for a vaccine that is proven to not stop a person from getting, or giving covid to others.
-- Ric Boyer
We are now engaged in a nightmare feedback loop where the vaccine is making things worse, the unvaccinated are blamed, measures are taken to increase vaccination and punish the unvaccinated, but cases continue to rise, and the cycle repeats.
-- somebody on the internet
Lowering the bar of vaccine efficacy down to protection against SEVERE disease is a vicious trick to leave the public with the false impression that C-19 vaccines are a blessing whereas exactly the opposite is true.
— Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
This is Twilight Zone-level madness. [In England], they're about to impose vaccine passports which haven't worked anywhere in the world, which their own study said don't work, to fight a variant which has killed precisely nobody in the entire frigging world. The government's own investigation found vaccine passports not only don't work, they could make the spread of the virus worse. They're just going to impose them on us anyway. Studies in Northern Ireland, Wales, Spain all found vaccine passports don't work, yet they impose them anyway. France, which has had strict mask mandates and vaccine passports in place for months, just hit its highest covid case level since April.
It's a joke. At what point do you stop listening to people who brazenly lie about everything, do the opposite of what they order you to do, and then laugh in your face about it? At what point do you say enough is enough?
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
-- somebody on the internet
An expert panel of scientists has told a cross-party group of MPs that the implementation of vaccine passports in England would be completely futile, because again the vaccinated can still spread the disease. The false notion that covid is a pandemic of the unvaccinated is being pushed for a specific reason - to dehumanize and scapegoat the unvaccinated so they can be further persecuted for not complying, and then made an example of as a warning to
others. Dehumanized by the media, violently persecuted by the state - whether you agree with their stance or not, that's clearly what's happening. The unvaccinated now represent a tyrannized minority that face institutionalized oppression, and it's all founded on claims that are simply not true, having been disproved by the official data.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
ADE – “the vaccine in the waning phase is causing the virus to replicate more efficiently than it would otherwise”
“I’m the opposite of an anti-vaxxer; I’m a true believer. But I’m also committed to safety and good science”
"[O]ne of my concerns are that the government is not being transparent with us about what those risks are. And so, I'm of the opinion that people have the right to decide whether to accept a vaccine or not, especially since these are experimental vaccines"
"This is a fundamental right having to do with clinical research ethics. And so, my concern is that I know that there are risks. But we don't have access to the data, and the data haven't been captured rigorously enough so that we can accurately assess those risks — and therefore … we don't really have the information that we need to make a reasonable decision."
"That's one of my other objections, is that we toss about these words, risk-benefit analysis, casually as if it's a very deep science. It's not. Normally, at this stage, the CDC [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] would have performed those risk-benefit analyses. They would be data-based and science-based. They're not right now,"
“The escape mutants that are escaping vaccine selected pressure are most likely developing in the people that have been vaccinated, not the unvaccinated.”
-- Dr. Robert Malone – co-inventor of mrna vac. technology
[Seeing as injection advocates] love to compare vaccines to seatbelts. If seatbelts were malfunctioning, there would be recalls. If seatbelts were injuring people, there would be investigations. And if seatbelts didn't prevent the injuries they are intended to, it would mean they aren't working!
If seatbelts were knowingly being sold that were causing death, you could sue the seatbelt manufacturer.
And seatbelts don't cause heart issues, paralysis, and death just by wearing it.
And seatbelt manufacturers wouldn't want to bury the results of their initial tests / studies / findings for 75 years.
And at the end of the day you can take your seatbelt off with no ill effects.
And if you don't wear a seatbelt, you still get to make a living.
-- some people on the internet
When a package of lettuce makes three people sick, there’s a nationwide recall. When so-called vaccines maim and murder tens of thousands, they just mandate you take even more.
-- paraphrased from somebody on the internet
Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment.
-- Carl Jung
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
-- William Golding
Insane regulations are keeping husbands from wives, and children from their parents, on their deathbeds. The real reason for fury is that these regulations exist at all. Even if you believe that measures of this kind are much help (I don’t), anyone with any sense can see that cruel separation of close relatives at the end of life is not a proportionate response to Covid. It is a fanatical, inhuman Communist measure that should never have been allowed, like the fearful, heartbreaking limits placed on funerals and the police raids on churches.
I keep hearing the word ‘proportionate’ being used about Covid measures. We went mad, like a man who burns down his own house to get rid of a wasps’ nest.
As Sweden proved, trusting free people to behave sensibly produced results that were certainly no worse than ours.
-- Peter Hitchens
I am quite literally terrified about the future. And this has nothing to do with a glorified flu virus that offers almost no threat of serious illness nor death to the vast majority of people. What is going on with the political classes and their favoured "scientists" is at best very sinister and at worst something far more horrific. And yet millions of brainwashed people are simply lapping it all up under a dreadfully mistaken comprehension that their health and safety is being looked after above all else.
-- Nigel Smith
It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
-- Diane Grant
This corona narrative allows them to deal in a less painful way with their anxieties. If it doesn't work, it's because some people aren't trying hard enough, so double down.
Indeed, as the pandemic has worn on and major elements of the narrative crumbled, COVID adherents have only become more zealous and have learned to personalize the enemy, shifting their sights onto those who don't comply with draconian rules that have failed to suppress the virus, and blaming them for the restrictions and mandates they themselves have voluntarily adopted.
-- Dr. Mattias Desmet
Dissidents of the global lockstep wisdom of mandates, economic shutdowns, and government control began even in the early days of the so-called "public health crisis" to describe the ritualistic hand washing, "social-distancing", and mask-wearing behaviors as highly symbolic cult-like practices, suggesting that "The Science" had, in the era of COVID-19, become the new worldwide theology, with vaccination the final ritual of initiation: a kind of baptism into the public health religion.
Meanwhile, independent-thinking professors, researchers, and other academics worldwide have pointed out that COVID-19 is not nearly as lethal as initially modeled, while lockdowns, masks, and vaccines have failed to stop transmission of the virus and caused serious harm in themselves.
Now, nearly two years after "two weeks to slow the spread", those whose intuition told them something was seriously amiss with the mainstream perspective have received the cold comfort of vindication.
-- Ashley Sadler
I just thought: doing the same things over and over again, and expecting a different result, would create a different result. That always made sense to me, as long as I didn't think about it. I used to wake up and think: how can I be more obedient today. And then I'd turn on the news to find out what I think for the day.
-- JP Sears, in jest
You don't need the government to protect you from what they tell you to be afraid of, and you don't need to keep living like a scared little obedient bitch.
-- JP Sears
Unfortunately, the health officials and politicians targeted control of using fear rather than data and facts to control the population were successful, resulting in a large number of the population with Covid PTSD whom I fear will never recover.
-- Debby Crane
Stockholm Syndrome victims. Society has embraced it.
-- Haley Geddes
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
-- Assata Shakur
That's the problem with the "experts" we've been calling upon to guide us. They don't know squat. This is a virus. It spreads readily. It's been here for a while just as the first virus was here months before we got excited about it. Quarantines, border restrictions, vaccine passports are useless. The stupidity of our leadership is making history.
-- Victor Kutcher
Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.
Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent.
Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.
-- Japanese Ministry of Health
Weird that I actually have to explain this, but taking things away from people until they agree to do what you say isn’t a ‘choice’. It’s punishing them until they concede to your demands. Normally we would refer to this type of behaviour as manipulation and abuse.
-- somebody on the internet
If you've ever wondered what you'd do during slavery, the holocaust or civil rights movement, you're doing it right now.
-- somebody on the internet
There is value in breaking from the crowd's morally questionable ways, despite it making you an outcast. "Going along to get along" may indeed have social utility in the present, but it does very little to advance a moral vision. Humanity is flawed.
Don't measure yourself against the norms of humanity, hopelessly declaring yourself as righteous simply because you're living in line with the shortcomings of those around you.
-- Jay Hubbard
We appreciate those concerns. But the days of telling regular Canadians that it is somehow their responsibility to put their lives on pause — and suffer the very real harms that come with it — to protect the hospitals are over.
A sizeable percentage of our tax dollars go to the Canadian health-care system. There are people paid big money to manage the system. It's their job to protect the hospitals, not everyone else's.
-- Toronto Sun editorial
One track mind, just sounds stupid and ignorant. Some [Ontario] science table, more like the children's table.
-- Eyal Kenigsvain
"We are really taking that leap – us as a company, Bayer – in cell and gene therapies. Ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy. I always like to say: if we had surveyed two years ago in the public – 'would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?' – we probably would have had a 95% refusal rate".
-- Stefan Oelrich [while Bayer claims he misspoke, the statement was made and within context of the pandemic]
Canadian society, as far as I'm concerned, is burning down all around us.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter, criminal law attorney
Prior to covid, most people would just take it for granted that the government has no right to restrict your freedom of movement, deny you access to your family, prevent you from going to work, shut down your business, force you to wear something on your person, coerce you into taking medication, and demonize a minority group in society.
Those things were done by tyrants and despots throughout history. And that level of evil could never happen again … right?
Well it has happened. Suddenly all of these tyrannical measures and infringements upon our rights and freedoms become acceptable in the minds of the public.
-- Dave Cullen
The new normal is whatever the media and government tells them it is. Failure to accept it results in demonization and condemnation, and ultimately ostracization from society.
-- Dave Cullen
They told us we had to learn to live with the virus. Unless it’s a new variant of the virus in which case we can’t live with it. They told us we’d vaccinate our way to freedom. Then they told us the vaccinations would never end. So we only get our freedom back when the vaccination program ends … and the vaccination program never ends.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
And what of the rules? Well once again they’re a shameful farce. Their [United Kingdom] own internal study said covid passports would achieve nothing and could even worsen the spread. They achieved nothing in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and every other European country that introduced them. Guess it’s time to introduce covid passports then. Makes perfect sense.
They’re not even bothering to cite data that supports their cause anymore, because such data doesn’t exist!
Why are we still listening to these people? They have no credibility; they’ve been wrong every time!
It’s time to say enough is enough.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Please master tell me what else I can do. When I was in school the science teacher never had to say "believe the science". The lesson was self evident. But not in this current day ... odd.
-- Rob Wilkie
The truth is you shouldn’t even need to research at this point. Common sense should reveal the absolute absurdity of what is happening in the world right now.
-- somebody on the internet
Thank you for clapping for me all those months ago. Will you clap for me and all the hard work I’ve done as I walk out of work for the last time? I’m the same person as I was back then. I didn’t change, everybody else did.
-- Jem Nicole, registered nurse, fired due to injection mandate
Tyrannical bureaucrats backed by their Big Tech enforcers suppress spontaneous forces generating effective treatments in favor of the blunt instrument of one-size-fits-all policies.
The delusion of collectivists is that their coercive plans will benefit all.
Politicians invoke the common good to hide that they have no justification for imposing their values on others; their deception is effective. Well-meaning people adopt the belief that only an evil person would oppose the common good.
Weighing the subjective costs and benefits from vaccines does not mean you deny the menace of Covid. You may well benefit from your personal decision to receive the vaccine, but the data is clear: Since you can still transmit Covid your decision provides no benefits to others. The bottom line is that there is no such thing as a common good that is achieved by lockdowns and mandates. Lost jobs, lost lives via suicide, lost livelihoods due to vaccine injuries, growing mental health issues, and lives saved cannot be weighed on “a single scale of less and more.”
-- Barry Brownstein
The “social goal,” or “common purpose,” for which society is to be organized is usually vaguely described as the “common good,” the “general welfare,” or the “general interest.” It does not need much reflection to see that these terms have no sufficiently definite meaning to determine a particular course of action. The welfare and the happiness of millions cannot be measured on a single scale of less and more. The welfare of a people, like the happiness of a man, depends on a great many things that can be provided in an infinite variety of combinations. It cannot be adequately expressed as a single end, but only as a hierarchy of ends, a comprehensive scale of values in which every need of every person is given its place. To direct all our activities according to a single plan presupposes that every one of our needs is given its rank in an order of values which must be complete enough to make it possible to decide among all the different courses which the planner has to choose. It presupposes, in short, the existence of a complete ethical code in which all the different human values are allotted their due place.
-- Friedrich Hayek
Politicians invoke the common good to hide that they have no justification for imposing their values on others; their deception is effective. Well-meaning people adopt the belief that only an evil person would oppose the common good.
-- Barry Brownstein
"We're all in this together". This is a term that's been spouted. We've been watching this growing collectivism evolve, as well as what seems to be an ideological divide between individual rights - classical liberal values - and a collective ideology that subjugates the individual for the needs of the collective.
"We're all in this together". This sounds like a good thing. The flowery language causes us to think that this is a wonderful thing and if we're not part of it, there might be something wrong with us. This is a kind of verbal trickery that's employed in order to subjugate the individual to the goals of a central planning authority.
-- Kate Wand
Citizens are no longer viewed as persons with inherent dignity, but as fungible elements of an undifferentiated 'mass' to be shaped by supposedly benevolent health and safety experts.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Professor of Psychiatry
In an honest society, all of this would have been subject to robust public debate. We would have seen scientists of all opinions openly debating on TV and radio and in the press; views of all kinds aired on social media without fear of censorship; journalists properly investigating reports of both vaccine successes and vaccine dangers; serious explorations of alternative treatments; public debates about the balance between civil liberties and public health, and what “public health” even means.
But we have not seen this and we will not see it, for debate, like dissent, is out of fashion. The media here has not asked a critical question of anyone in authority for at least 18 months. Google’s algorithms are busy burying inconvenient data, while the social media channels from which most people receive their worldview are removing or suppressing critical opinions, even if they come from virologists or editors of the British Medical Journal.
Across Europe and the wider world, the picture is the same. Internment. Mandatory medication. Segregation of whole sections of society. Mass sackings. A drumbeat media consensus. The systematic censoring of dissent. The deliberate creation of a climate of fear and suspicion. The deepening demonisation of the “unvaxxed”. Something terrible is rising around us.
Covid is a revelation. It has lain bare splits in the social fabric that were always there but could be ignored in better times. It has revealed the compliance of the mainstream media, and the power of Silicon Valley to curate and control the public conversation. It has confirmed the sly dishonesty of political leaders, and their ultimate obeisance to corporate power. It has shown how ideology, on all sides, can mask itself with the pretend neutrality of “science”.
Most of all, it has revealed the authoritarian streak that lies beneath so many people, and which always emerges in fearful times. In the last month alone, I have watched media commentators calling for censorship of their political opponents, philosophy professors justifying mass internment, and human rights lobby groups remaining silent about “vaccine passports”. I have watched much of the political Left transition openly into the authoritarian movement it probably always was, and countless “liberals” campaigning against liberty. As freedom after freedom has been taken away, I have watched intellectual after intellectual justify it all.
Most of all, though, what the Covid apocalypse has revealed to me is that when people are frightened, they can be very easily controlled.
Of all the stories we are watching play out right now, this is the biggest one: the manipulation of public fear to impose unprecedented levels of control on populations.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
What is the end result of the COVID pandemic? What are the specific metrics that would allow us to resume our lives with full personal agency? What is the civilizational trajectory that we are on? Please don't infer that I don't appreciate the threat. I do. But future scholars will marvel at the global-wide rejection of evidence-based thinking in pressing the pause button on civilization. As someone who specializes in the psychology of decision making (my doctoral dissertation and subsequent work), I'm truly astonished.
-- Gad Saad
I'm double-vaxxed. So is my wife. So is my young daughter. My younger son has received one dose of the milder vaccination (for young children). We are careful in our behaviours and recognize the threats. BUT as an adult with a functioning brain and (I think) personal agency, it is perfectly rational to question the trajectory of the COVID mandates. What is the end point? How much longer can this go on? What are the metrics that we should be aspiring to reach in order to live as free individuals again? No RATIONAL, MATURE, HONEST interlocutor would question our right to hold such conversations of civilizational importance. And yet, I repeatedly see academics who are bewildering in their ideological fervour; their cognitive miserliness; their intellectual dishonesty; their herd mentality. It is shocking. Free individuals debate; they question; they evaluate; they fight. Sheep are corralled by sheepdogs. I'm not a sheep. I'm a human being who wishes to live as a free and autonomous agent. I have a right to question ANYTHING. The scientific method grants us that epistemological power.
-- Gad Saad
Apparently we are expected to remain dumb enough not to distinguish between 'with' and 'from' [the virus], and sadly a lot of people here have bought into the manufactured fear and mandates. Safety first, freedom second - if you're lucky.
-- Ryan Rodgers
[COVID-19 lockdowns are the] biggest public health mistake we've ever made. The harm to people is catastrophic.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
I am watching all this from Ireland, the country which has the highest adult vaccination rate in Western Europe, at over 94% of the population. Here, cases are accelerating so fast that we were all told recently to work from home, and another lockdown is widely feared. New restrictions for children, who are least at risk from Covid, are being proposed, and a midnight curfew has recently been imposed on pubs and nightclubs. This is odd, as only vaccinated people have been allowed into them since the summer, with the scan of a smartphone-enabled QR code being the only way to access much of society.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
It has revealed the authoritarian streak that lies beneath so many people, and which always emerges in fearful times. In the last month alone, I have watched media commentators calling for censorship of their political opponents, philosophy professors justifying mass internment, and human rights lobby groups remaining silent about “vaccine passports”. I have watched much of the political Left transition openly into the authoritarian movement it probably always was, and countless “liberals” campaigning against liberty. As freedom after freedom has been taken away, I have watched intellectual after intellectual justify it all. When people are frightened, they can be very easily controlled.
-- Paul Kingsnorth
Actual data comes out disproving their dire doomsday predictions as it has every time, and then everyone just moves on. They were spectacularly wrong ... spectacularly wrong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, And it's all the same people who were wrong every time, telling us to lock down again. We teach our kids about not trusting people who repeatedly make false claims via a fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", yet the boys who cried wolf over and over again have seized control of our government.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
I think we're living through a period of moral panic, mass psychosis, mass formation, and overall confusion, and I think what's particularly strange is that this is happening pretty much on a global scale.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
We must protect the NHS. You saw [bureaucrat] saying "protect the NHS". Folks it's time for a rethink. When the NHS was set up in the late 1940s, it wasn't set up that we should protect it - it was set up so that it could protect us. And we do so every day through our taxes - massive taxes.
Remember the "Nightingale hospitals" that were built at rapid speed - great job done for the army and some entrepreneurs. Where are they? They've all gone. How much more NHS capacity do we have now than we had two years ago? Do you know what the answer is? None. We haven't increased hospital capacity.
Even before coronavirus came along, we had a winter crisis every year with flu, and everything else, and a shortage of hospital beds. We've spent 40 billion on "test and trace". Surely better to employ fewer people making phone calls and threatening people, and to spend a fraction of that money making sure we have more NHS capacity. This is a mess.
The reason we're now living like this is because they have not had the foresight to keep the Nightingale hospitals open, to increase hospital capacity. We are all paying the price, being forced into fear, because the government haven't prepared in any way at all.
I was ahead of the game on this. Many said I was being too critical, but it's pretty clear through a lack of planning, through living on day-to-day what the opinion polls say, we have not increased NHS capacity in two years. That is a disgrace.
-- Nigel Farage
Imposing treatments on people without their informed and fully voluntary consent cannot be justified in the name of "the public good," especially when the vaccine manufacturers and government officials have stated publicly that the COVID vaccine does not stop the spread of COVID.
-- John Carpay
Threatening doctors with the loss of their licence to practice medicine is no different from the persecution of Galileo over his minority opinion that the earth revolves around the sun. It is only because science was able to continue its path forward that people eventually accepted Galileo's heliocentric thesis as the correct one, in spite of authoritarian efforts to impose "scientific truth."
As long as [medical] Colleges persist without competence or legal legitimacy in interfering with the doctor-patient relationship, and as long as Colleges persist in their hostility to scientific inquiry and debate by imposing their view of "truth," they will continue to erode the trust that Canadians are able to place in the medical profession.
-- John Carpay
This virus is not the black death. There is no justification for such an extreme response. It should be obvious now even to the dimmest and most timid among us that this is not about health and it never was.
-- Pat Condell
Actually, what we have is a freedom emergency.
-- Pat Condell
When you see it infect the whole society. These people are stoking the fire, but the fire is kind of raging anyway. It's more the mind virus of totalitarianism, like this 'mass formation' where the whole society has bought into this. And in that mindset, totalitarianism is not just one dictator at the top telling everybody what to do. It's actually a virus of the whole society. You can get rid of that top dictator and they'll replace him with somebody else because everybody wants somebody to take power and blast and get rid of their enemies. In that kind of a mindset that infects society that I believe has happened now, you're seeing overreach across our whole society.
It's this mind virus of totalitarianism, of believing you're part of the cause, that we are going to fight and destroy covid at any cost. And people have that solidarity, and that feeling of belonging, and a mission - that they believe is all for the greater good. But that's that same mentality of believing you're doing what's best for the Communist revolution or to maintain the French revolution, or to promote the health of the Aryan race. It's that same belief and when you believe you're doing something for the greater good, while ignoring the rights of the individual in front of you, that's where the greatest atrocities in societies have been committed. I think that's what we're in right now.
-- Dr. Patrick Phillips
Doctors and people seem to have lost the ability to think critically. I’m really hoping that the lesson that we’ll all come out of this fiasco with is to question everything. To not just believe everything you’re told, but to question it. That’s what we as doctors were supposed to have been trained to do in evidence-based medicine – that the facts of science were never settled, because we never have all the facts. Sometimes our presuppositions turn out to be wrong. We have to be constantly questioning things.
-- Dr. Charles Hoffe
The piss-poor reaction to COVID by our so-called leaders has been an unmitigated failure on every level- COVID has already eclipsed the Spanish Flu in the sense of disrupting life, mainly because of the knee-jerk hyperbolic demands of a feckless and paranoid public and feedback from thence through and from the hypocritical ruling class.
Mask mandates, vaccine mandates, travel restrictions, social distancing, gathering restrictions, and every other measure thrown at this … virus have failed.
-- Tarl Warwick
Can you imagine how it feels to fear death and disease so much – despite all evidence that perhaps for you, the grim reaper’s passage through covid is statistically zero – that your world becomes wholly agoraphobic, and your fear of death becomes a fear of life?
-- Kate Wand
Years of ingesting media spoon-fed pablum every night without critical thought has been a contributing factor to our current mass hypochondria.
-- G. Johnson
This 'othering' that we're seeing. All of this language of 'anti-vaxxer', 'vaccine-hesitant' - it's all 'othering' language. It's an attempt to distance oneself from people. The ones who try to stigmatize in this way I think are trying to dehumanize the holders of those positions.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
I think our fundamental ideological divide is a collectivist versus an individualist approach. We have this tendency to think that individualism is a synonym for selfishness or something like that. I think it's really important to talk about that now because I think it's important to address.
To be an individual, is that to be selfish? Does that mean you're focused on the self? Not necessarily. It might just mean that you think that your sole responsibility as a moral agent is not to sacrifice yourself for the group.
You might think you might still be a martyr in some respect because you might think that it's your obligation to sacrifice yourself for some other person, or you might think that it's not your obligation to sacrifice at all, but to try to do good things in the world, or do good things for other people
But I do wonder if the reason why we're seeing an almost intractable debate between pro- and anti-narrative defenders is that we're speaking a different moral language.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
This is why many people subscribe to that collectivist ideology. Because the language sounds very good. So if you have this kind of collectivist language that says you are doing things for the greater good, you are sacrificing yourself for others, you care about others; these individualists don't, they're individualists, so they're selfish, and they are self-interested.
-- Kate Wand
In the in the popular discourse and in social media there's a great willingness to sacrifice the outliers for the sake of what people are calling a public good. One of the problems here though is that this utilitarian notion is piggybacking on some pretty poor interpretation of science. Our fear is running rampant over this omicron variant and when you look at the numbers and the millions of people in Ontario and we've had two hospitalizations, so it's not even clear that those defending this collective good ... we must restrict, we must limit, we must excise for the sake of promoting the health of the group. It's not clear that what we're doing is even achieving that, because it's based on some misguided interpretation of the science.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
It's very odd to me that even for people who know nothing about immunology, nothing about what a respiratory virus is, nothing about what a sterilizing versus non-sterilizing vaccine are ... even if we know nothing about that, you would think it would be odd for most people to hear that 10 or 15 percent of the population could be a threat to ... I won't even say 'fully vaccinated', but doubly vaccinated 85 percent of the population, and that our case numbers are no better than they were before we started all of this vaccinating.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
A vaccine provides immunity against a disease. Obviously, none of these drugs labeled as covid vaccines do that. Leaving aside for the moment the very real concerns about possible negative health impacts, these medications are at best useless. They do nothing. Everywhere you look people who have done as they were told, drunk the Kool-Aid, and taken the jab are falling ill and being diagnosed with COVID-19.
[Nothing] changes the obvious fact that there are no "vaccines" against COVID-19.
-- Charles Faddis
The [media source] captioned this photo “an anti-vax march in London” even though the photo is centered on a man holding up a “no vaccine passports” banner.
The [media] want their readers to think these people are just kooks who hate medicine, even when they’re saying explicitly they oppose the digital surveillance state the vaccines usher in.
-- Morgoth’s Review
Thomas Hobbs and John Locke wrote in their political philosophies about what it is that motivated us as humans to get out of the state of nature and it was not to form grand, elaborate governmental structures where every aspect of our lives is mediated by our public officers. It was not to do that. It was very minimal. It was not let's get out of the state of nature so that we can have perfectly structured and better lives. It was just I would like to submit to the sovereign so that I can have some minimal protections. In the state of nature, people can come along and steal my cow or take my wife or kill me or something, and that's nasty, brutish and short, as Hobbes described. We don't really want to live like that, so we'll agree to trade off our absolute freedom in order to get ... we'll give up a little bit in order, in exchange, to get some protection. But that's a very far cry from thinking that the government should have complete micromanaging control over every aspect of your life.
And my view now is that what we're seeing is a complete failure of our governmental system because it has overstepped the initial implicit contract that we as humans made to form government in the first place, and it's no longer serving us. I do think we need to realize that its value is not pure and perfect and inevitable.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
The CDC withdrawal of its Emergency Use Authorization for PCR testing as of Jan 1 is curious indeed. A functional media would be asking WTF? If PCR had been accurate, then why not continue using it? If PCR has not been accurate, then what does that inaccuracy mean for cases diagnosed?
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
People are indeed capable of making decisions for themselves and their families. If there are new risks, tell us about actions we might take to keep ourselves safe, and allow us to take actions appropriate for ourselves. Not sure what’s so wrong with that approach of treating people like adults.
-- Jeremy Pillon
Our health care system teeters in verge of collapse almost constantly and always has. There is very little buffer room or excess capacity to handle any health crises, including a mass earthquake or massive storm. Shutting down entire segments of society and the economy just "as a precaution" cannot be a viable government option anymore. That has to end.
-- Rod Pithy
The largely unremarked-on ironies in all this mess have attracted my attention. We in Ottawa will spend almost two years protecting your health but will not increase health care funding for the provinces or consider necessary changes to the system. We will never tolerate the divided society that vaccine passports would create, until we embrace them. Having squandered our trust, governments turned to coercion. Fear, little of it based in reason or science, has been the motivation for so much in 2021.
-- Andrea Mrozek
Your position is an ideological opinion and not a medical position backed by any proven science.
Your ideology should not become my personal health obligation.
-- Colin Wright
I'm sure you know coercion and force (in legal and non-legal terms) when you see them. In the end, it's absolutely inappropriate and unethical, by any measure, to pressure and bully employees into personal health decisions in order to retain their employment. Period.
-- Colin Wright
Canada's public officials and political class are devoid of credibility. The system is broken, and those at the top have absolutely no idea what they are doing with all their unearned and undeserved power. What does abject failure look like? It looks like what we see around us today in our healthcare system and among our political class.
-- Spencer Fernando
The fact that we are at the point where many wait and see what a government official tells them about what kind of Christmas they can have is a huge problem.
-- Spencer Fernando
It's amazing how lockdowns, which go directly against the fundamental values of our culture, have become normalized as standard policy when the going gets tough. Lockdowns are a totalitarian policy we imported from the CCP. How people support them is absolutely mind blowing."
-- Mike Ryan
At this point, it is important to stop mincing words. People need to grow up. At this moment, there are millions of adults in this country, and around the world, who are willing to give up most of their rights and freedoms in order to feel 'safe'. In doing so, they are accepting a role in which the government is their parent, and they are like a child, waiting for guidance and direction.
-- Spencer Fernando
For [politicians], and for a media establishment that thrives on division and demonization, it’s far easier to direct anger and outrage towards unvaccinated Canadians than it is acknowledge the failure of our institutions and their disturbing embrace of authoritarian power.
-- Spencer Fernando
Given that there are more cases of the virus even among those who are vaccinated, and given that vaccinated individuals can still spread covid, the idea of restricting access to unvaccinated individuals is more about coercion and demonization than it is about public health.
Additionally, we are already seeing that in much of the country there are new restrictions and lockdowns being imposed upon people who are vaccinated, and upon businesses that were only open to vaccinated individuals. That is a tacit admission by governments that the policy of imposing vaccine mandates and restrictions on unvaccinated people is a failed policy.
-- Spencer Fernando
Let us suppose that we were to be in the current steady state (whatever that means) for the foreseeable future. How much longer would people be willing to have these governmental COVID mandates imposed upon them? It has now been two years. Another two years? Another 20 years? Another 200 years? Asking people about the boundary conditions that might activate them away from their passive compliance is a valuable exercise to undertake. Again, no one is contesting the importance of being a responsible individual when it comes to personal behavior. My genuine concern is that for a great majority of the population, no amount of governmental intrusion will ever cause them to pause and question these realities. Therein lies the tragedy. Humans are largely quiet sheep, with a few irreverent and bold non-followers.
-- Gad Saad
Late-night talk show hosts, pop science communicators, and journalists are interchangeable. They’re all insufferably unfunny hollow vehicles for regime messaging.
With open scientific discussion, without censorship, and without astroturfed self-righteous midwits, we would not be in the situation we are in now.
-- pseudonym Leaky Vax
I have to say, the most unpleasant and downright awful people I’ve interacted with over the past 2 years have been those who claim to care about my “health”.
-- pseudonym The Iconoclast
All this information is in the public domain. Yet due to doublethink, idiocy, mulishness, duplicity, derangement or all of the above, policy-makers are refusing to act on its implications. The absurd theatre of vaccine passports ... is worse than pointless. Gatekeeping of pleasure palaces promotes the wrong impression - statistically, the lie - that the unvaccinated riff-raff exiled to the pavement pose a far graver threat of communicable disease than the diners in the nearby banquette who, like you, have righteously got the shot. In truth, the double-jabbed airline passenger in 24A can be just as risky a seat-mate as the great unwashed banished from the flight.
-- Lionel Shriver
Just think about the ethical ramifications of prohibiting a therapeutic intervention to a sick patient. This has to come to an end.
-- Dr. Joe Varon
What we're experiencing is co-ordinated media warfare the level of which we have never seen before and I and my peers, who are experienced in multiple outbreaks have never seen this level of co-ordinated propaganda.
--Dr. Robert Malone
It is diabolical. Dreadful. Awful. Kilometers of people queuing for hours in the cold with masks on outdoors. Totally effin surreal. Like the Twilight Zone.
-- Mary Smith
With more unscientific, ineffective and medieval restrictions looming over Ontario, it’s important to remember that humans have no control over constantly mutating seasonal respiratory viruses. We can only adapt – by building hospital capacity and using the best treatments available.
-- somebody on the internet
The government has literally stopped the distribution of medicine. Effective medicine. For a disease that exists currently. When has that ever happened before
-- Joe Rogan
How about that ridiculous press release from the White House, that said the winter of the unvaccinated death. So horrible ... and so inaccurate.
-- Joe Rogan
That's the core thing of this chronic angst. Our government is out of control on this. They are lawless. They completely disregard bioethics. These mandates of an experimental vaccine are explicitly illegal.
When you see this kind of decoupling of public policy from logic, then it causes thinking people like yourself to say what the hell is going on here.
It’s hard for me to reconcile the behavior of the government in its public health decisions with the data. Is it incompetence or is it malfeasance?
-- Dr. Robert Malone
One of the more disturbing things about this pandemic is how people have just decided because they're scared and because they want a solution, that the pharmaceutical companies have their best interest at heart, and that they're not these machines that are designed to make money. And they sell drugs, and the drugs are often beneficial, but their main goal is to make money. And if they can fudge the data, if they can move the numbers around, if they can delete negative consequences ...
-- Joe Rogan
It's a tribal formation. It's people who don't have personal sovereignty and people who aren't confident with standing by their own thoughts and objectively analyzing things outside of an ideology, outside of the tribe. And those are more common than not.
-- Joe Rogan
They're not scared that you're not wearing a mask, or else they'd distance themselves. They're scared that you are being disobedient.
-- Michael Malice
No reasonable person, no sensible person, no honest person, no decent person believes that there is any epidemiological or scientific explanation that can justify why the government - never mind about the curfews and lockdown - why they are weighing in on whether you can walk your dog outside or not.
Fascism and authoritarianism and dictatorial rule doesn't happen by magic. It happens by a concerted orchestrated dance between a bunch of people who are really keen on seizing power and the rest of the people who are more than willing to sit quietly and apathetically.
This will never end until people say it can't go on.
The government is telling you that you can't walk your dog when you have a curfew. I grew up in the Lebanese civil war - you didn't have
dog curfews.
-- Gad Saad
In every country where they've been tried, vaccine passports have completely failed to stop the spread. But this is no longer about stopping the spread of a virus, is it? It's about enforcing unthinking, gelded mass obedience.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Has anyone considered that it took humanity so long to achieve a semblance of freedom largely BECAUSE so many people actually LIKE being under the boot?
I used to believe that virtually all human beings inherently and fundamentally desired to be free and to have liberty and autonomy.
I was wrong.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
You will learn more factual information on COVID in the 3 hour Joe Rogan / Dr. Robert Malone interview vs. the legacy media’s coverage combined over the last 2 years.
-- Pat Condell
What a liar [is Justin Trudeau] - both on misleading the public that the UNVAXD are filling the hospitals as well as the idea that these injections confer an immunity that prevents infection and transmission, neither of which it does. On the issue of hospital beds, only a small % of beds are Covid-related… and the majority are VAXD! He just keeps repeating blatant lies and making indirect threats to those who will not bend the knee to his unconscionably evil mandates because frankly he has nothing else to say because his narrative has been completely and utterly annihilated by the truth. Tough for an arrogant man to swallow.
-- Liberty Coalition Canada
If the experts don’t all agree, then ban, threaten, pay off, or censor them until they do. Works every time.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Two shots plus a booster in less than a year of rolling out the vax. Had a vax failed so miserably in less than a year in clinical trials, it would be ditched as useless. But now, just boost.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
Trust the science.
I do trust in science, but coercion is not science, withholding data is not science, manipulating data is not science, cherry-picking studies is not science, social conditioning is not science, fear-mongering is not science, and censorship is not science.
-- somebody on the internet
What we have collectively accepted under the guise of a public health emergency is a discriminatory, medical apartheid state with devastating and potentially irreversible social and economic consequences. We have allowed principally flawed and ineffective public health policies and statutes to destroy our livelihoods and our lives, fracture our communities and families, and cause far greater harm than good.
At this time, it is abundantly clear from the objective science and public health data that our mass vaccination campaigns, which entail extreme coercive measures in a singular approach to fighting a highly transmissible but predominantly non-fatal and eminently treatable virus, are abysmal failures.
The justification for emergency measures rests upon the legal principles that they must be temporary, minimally damaging, and demonstrably effective in providing more benefit than harm. Instead, we have scapegoated a significant subset of the population, we have dispensed with notions of informed consent, we have granted State power over bodily autonomy, and we have ruptured the social fabric as we vilify conscientious detractors. None of this promotes a healthy and cohesive society founded on the principles of justice, inclusion, and non-discrimination.
-- group Fearless Canada
This is when you know your country is in trouble when your current PM [Prime Minister] says word for word what a former genocidal maniac said.
-- Theoren Fleury
Our belief that these people outside of you and above you know better for you than you do about what’s best for you. That whole idea that a government is going to save us, like daddy-Prime Minister knows what’s best, or even that your doctor knows what’s best for you. I think it was a myth all along. I think it’s very important that we take back our power, that we trust in ourselves, and take back our power over our own lives. The power of the individual over [his/her] own life is essential.
-- Dr. Patrick Phillips
You, sir, are breaking the law. Violating the Charter continually in the absence of a true and crucial emergency.
-- Dr Jordan B Peterson
These days almost all mainstream media should have to state "For Entertainment Purposes Only"
-- Travis Nesimiuk
In light of the fact that Covid vaccines do not stop Covid spread, there is no medical or scientific reason for governments to coerce or pressure anyone to get injected. Declining the Covid vaccine is neither selfish nor anti-social. It is a free and legitimate personal choice that governments should support and uphold.
-- John Carpay
Covid is so much more complicated that just ‘I’m for more safety than you are therefore I’m a better person’.
-- Bill Maher
There is no such thing as an anti vaxxer. We are VACCINE SAFETY ADVOCATES.
-- Steve Williams
In the 1940s, governments authorized the widespread spraying of the "safe" insecticide DDT on people, in a sincere effort to "save lives" from polio, but DDT was banned in the 1970s as dangerous to public health.
-- John Carpay
The government is now officially wandering, lost in the wilderness of their own private mass formation hell. Except it is not only their hell, but also ours. Perhaps a bit less propaganda and censorship, and a bit more listening to other opinions might finally be in order?
-- Dr. Robert Malone
The problem what we're dealing with these news sources, is that the answer is not to silence me, the answer is for you to do better. The answer is for you to have better arguments. If you're in business, and your business is the news, and you want to get more people to pay attention, you should be honest. Have give people that give out objective news, and I'll support you.
-- Joe Rogan
We have got to get past this endless, unforgiving, zero-tolerance mindset bent on punishing and disappearing anyone caught saying the 'wrong' thing. The right response to speech you don't like is more speech, not the lazy, cowardly response of cancelling people. This is a big country with lots of people who don't think like you. We all only need to agree on free speech itself.
-- Bill Maher
It doesn’t make sense to keep boosting against a strain that’s already gone.
-- Ali Ellebedy, immunologist
The fact is that children have been accused of being the principal source of SARS-COV-2 and have been outrageously bullied because of that. It is ironic that those who feel at peace bullying our children are often the same righteous people who were tutoring against bullying practices at school a few years ago.
-- Marc Girardot
Vaccine manufacturers have become wicked magicians: they have managed creating a multi-billion market out of nothing without delivering any clinical value to those in need beyond relieving a fabricated anxiety. Even drug dealers at least deliver on the promise to get you high. If it weren’t so despicable and unethical, you’d have to applaud the marketing feat.
-- Marc Girardot
The strongest lie is the lie that the audience tells itself.
-- Teller
You’ve got your two shots. You’ve got your two boosters. You’re double masked. And yet nothing has changed. How stupid do you feel? You don’t feel stupid at all. Why? Because you’re stupid.
-- somebody on the internet
I think people and government are in a bit of a trance right now, they have tunnel vision on just getting shots in arms constantly, even if the data isn't there to support that strategy.
-- Yelnik
When I want to make sure people are healthy, I usually force them to stay indoors, close all of the gyms, and stop them from working and seeing their friends and family. I also keep them in a continuous state of dread, uncertainty, and anxiety. This is for their health, clearly.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The government does not have the right to make your medical decisions for you.
Workers are stressed over the choice between their freedom and their careers - something no one in this country should ever have to face. Personal medical decisions are between an individual and their doctor.
Vaccines are not infallible. They are not an option for everyone, and they should never be forced on someone who doesn't want them.
The administration's single-track focus on vaccination rather than therapeutics for COVID is telling. We know that none of the COVID vaccines prevent you from contracting the disease, and they don't prevent you from passing it on to someone else. Mandating a vaccine for workers that accomplishes neither of those things is not only unconstitutional, but incomprehensible.
-- Kevin Hern
It is becoming nearly impossible to withstand the slow suffocation of our ability to live our lives as individuals with personal agency and full autonomy. Every moment that is robbed from you is an existential crime against your human dignity. We’ve lost two years of our lives. It is truly bewildering what people are willing to endure as quiet, compliant sheep.
-- Gad Saad
The cure has become worse than the disease.
I have spoken with senior advisors to provincial governments in Canada. There is no end game in sight. The idea that Canadian policy is or should be governed “by the science” is not only not true, it’s also not possible, as there is no simple pathway from the facts of science to the complexities of policy. We are deciding, by opinion poll, to live in fear, and to become increasingly authoritarian in response to that fear.
There are no risk-free paths forward. There is only one risk, or another. Pick your poison: that’s the choice life often offers. I am weary of living under the increasingly authoritarian dictates of a polity hyper-concerned with one risk, and oblivious to all others. And things are shaking around us.
Enough, Canadians. Enough, Canadian politicos. Enough masks. Enough social gathering limitations. Enough restaurant closures. Enough undermining of social trust. Make the bloody vaccines available to those who want them. Quit using force to ensure compliance on the part of those who don’t. Some of the latter might be crazy but, by and large, they are no crazier than the rest of us.
-- Jordan Peterson
Employers that fire fully competent, healthy, and in many cases long term staff, and then force infected staff to work, do not have a staffing shortage problem. They do have problems with intelligence, competence, and compassion.
Not really things a hospital should be lacking. Let the managers that chose to terminate clean the bedpans. It the only thing they are useful for.
-- Wolf Madsen
We have a medical emergency caused by gross incompetence.
-- Dr. Mehmet Oz
I still don't know how I will explain to my future children that billions of people gave up their basic human rights and civil liberties because they were afraid to catch a cold. And they still caught it anyway.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Unbelievable how most people refuse to believe what is really causing people so much hardship in their lives. Not covid but government measures that are harmful to all Canadians. This is cruel to treat people like this.
-- Nathan Bouchard
COVID is almost certainly a short-term problem. Maintaining individual rights in the face of omnipotent government is a long-term one.
If government comes along and tells me that for my own good I should submit to injection with a newly invented genetic concoction Big Pharma has put together for me, I'm naturally going to be suspicious. I should be suspicious. It's good that I'm suspicious. These are the people who run the post office (though "run" is an exaggeration). They're always telling us we should do things, whether for our own good or not. Their bossiness is society's main problem these days.
-- William Watson
The real pandemic is how stupid everyone is.
-- somebody on the internet
Canadians are infantile. The government and their controllers treat us like kids, and people oblige. "Wear your masks or we won't give you any treats" we'll send you to the naughty step and stop your benefits. Now, behave and obey us like good little kids. We are clearly a civilization in sharp decline. Opposite of anything that can objectively be called advancing. Parasites have seized control!!
-- Jeanette Lockhart
Governments spent astronomical sums in the past 2 years, all with the ultimate goal of “flattening the curve.” But none of it went to increasing hospital capacity, and they’re still trying to flatten the curve with destructive and ineffective measures.
-- Maxime Bernier
So now we have an impossible-to-stop virus that looks a lot like the common cold. And we have a heavy-handed global mitigation strategy based on vaccination that does very little to stop it. Surely, I thought, we will now see that these policies, and especially vaccine mandates, do not make any logical sense?
-- Cory Zue
Don’t wear a cloth mask. Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations.
-- Dr. Leana Wen
Recovered COVID patients have strong, long-lasting protection against severe disease if reinfected, and evidence about protective immunity after natural infection is stronger than the evidence from the vaccines. Hence, it makes no sense to require vaccines for recovered COVID patients. For them, it simply adds a risk, however small.
-- Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff
The overwhelmingly likely outcome is that the vaccine would do just what the virus did: maybe inconvenience me for a day or so, and then I’d be on with my life. Rationally, isn’t that worth being able to live “normally” again?
Yes. That would be worth it. But the issue is no longer the vaccine. The problem is the precedent.
I don’t believe it’s ok to live in a world in which medical procedures can be forced onto people without an impenetrable foundation of evidence to support them. And I’m just not seeing that from where I stand.
The world I want to live in is a world where we make and enforce rational, evidence-based policies based on the good of the population. A world in which we defer some autonomy to individuals to make their own decisions regarding their health, and don’t keep them from going out to dinner or getting on an airplane if we disagree with them.
I’d also like to live in a world where we stop shaming “the other”, and I’ve decided that one way I can do that is by declaring myself as part of “the other”.
Earlier I didn’t take the shot because I wasn’t sure it was good for me. But now? Now I’m not taking the shot because I’m taking a stand.
I’m taking a stand because if people like me don’t stand up against what’s going on in the world right now then things will only get harder and weirder and scarier for other people like me. I’m worried that if we don’t get off this path soon, it’s going to get harder and harder to turn back. And I don’t want to see where that ends up.
-- Cory Zue
In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.
-- Professor Udi Qimron
We reject the biomedical security state that curtails liberty, ruins livelihoods, and divides our society. And we will protect the rights of individuals to live their lives free from the yoke of restrictions and mandates.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
We engage in peaceful civil discourse and vote them out and then take all who did wrong to court and examine it fairly with proper legal settings. And if wrong, jail them. Jail all who did wrong if it is shown legally. Use all tools in our good governance societies to find who did wrong knowingly and punish them, no matter how high up. To get justice for this insanity the last 2 years. Too many people died not due to [a] virus but due to the polices of these morons, these irrational nonsensical idiots.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
You watch in the months and years to come, the greatest proponents for all of these ruinous COVID measures that don't appear to have made a discernible difference compared to countries and territories that did so little, will be rewriting their own history. With the societal, economic, health, and human damage from the measures, we've seen a set of unprecedented and experimental measures to control the virus. It won't just be a [single] figure that you can blame ... it will be an entire generation of scientists, medics, politicians, and media outlets who will own this. They and they alone will own the non-COVID death toll which is obviously going to dwarf that of COVID. They will own the national debt, they will own the mental health tsunami, they will own the NHS waiting list upwards of 6 million and beyond, they will own a sadder diminished and angrier society, they will own damaged children. You mark my words - one by one, almost every measure that we've seen will be discredited.
-- Mark Dolan
When it came to the Covid vaccines, the medical authorities have displayed an astonishing level of tolerance for side effects and collateral damage. So much so that they were even willing to let some children die unnecessarily for the sake of their vaccine agenda.
-- Vasko Kohlmayer
Here we are in 2022 and our leaders are scapegoating the non-vaccinated, blaming them for the continuation of the pandemic. Like other evil leaders, they divide rather than unite. They promote fear rather than courage and strength. Pit one group against another.
-- Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
Let me fact check that for you. Behavioral scientists working for the British government admit they used quote
unethical totalitarian methods of quote mind control to mislead or hypnotize the public ... their words, not mine ... in order to drastically increase quote the perceived level of personal threat that the virus poses because quote a substantial number of people
still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened. This was all reported by the London Telegraph.
One scientist with SPI-B - that's the government behavioral unit - admits that quote in March 2020, the government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn't want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear. The scientists further confessed that quote the use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It's been like a weird experiment. Ultimately it backfired because people became too scared.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Even in public health emergencies, certain norms of basic respect for human beings and their right to make free and informed decisions must not be trespassed. Charging mandatory levies against the unvaccinated simply crosses the line of what may be permitted in a free society, and should be condemned outright.
-- Canadian Constitution Foundation
It's all fun and games until you don't want another dose and canno get an exemption. Maybe at that point, you will understand the importance of informed consent and bodily autonomy.
-- Rick Pittman
Then there is Canada, always so scared of everything except what is a real threat: totalitarianism.
-- somebody on the internet
Our provincial and federal governments failed to address healthcare staffing and funding for at least the last 10 years. The pandemic and the unvaccinated became their scapegoats. Something to blame other than them.
-- F. Castle
Can someone tell me the difference between Don Cherry's "You People" and Justin Trudeau's "These People"? One doesn't have a job anymore and the other is a PM.
-- Theoren Fleury
Canadians' personal health decisions have nothing to do with the government's failure to expand our health care system's capacity. They've only had 2 years to do it after all.
-- True North news
Oh, go get the vaccine, go get the vaccine and you can keep your job. No, we live in Canada here people. It's a choice. It's a choice. You have the right to go get it; I have the right not to.
-- Lee, some truck driver losing his job for not getting jabbed
Do you remember the Japanese soldier who refused to surrender until 1974 because he did not believe that WWII had ended? [The Canadian Prime Minister] and other COVID addicts are cut of the same cloth. A refusal to move on. An orgiastic need to maintain the authoritarian status quo.
-- Gad Saad
As time goes on it becomes clear that Trudeau really is the worst leader in the democratic world.
In an effort to persuade the population to get vaccinated, Trudeau did everything he could to defame those who disagreed with him. This extended to him dismissing anyone hesitant about taking the vaccine as being (guess what?) racist, misogynistic and more. Trudeau had no evidence for any of this, but this is the modern way of excommunicating any person or group of people. Say that they are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobes and you have successfully un-personed such people.
It is absolutely scandalous, [the incumbent Prime Minister] should go, his government should fall, there should be fresh elections in Canada, and the Canadian people should
elect somebody else.
This is just unbelievable banana republic behaviour.
-- Douglas Murray
Zealous ideologues have always led the way to humanity's worst atrocities; towing behind them a long train of apathetic and disinterested and/or fearful public. Instead of weighing the situation, and course-correcting as needed, they always double-down on their prescriptions out of ill-informed hubris.
Despite everyone previously cheering for the [The Canadian Prime Minister] Low-T former part-time drama teacher, and colourful socks enthusiast as a relatively harmless numale, he is actually a terrifying and ideologically-possessed authoritarian.
-- John Meadowlark
Workers in Canada are striking against a government mandate that they consume the product of a multinational corporation that is protected by law against liability for any damage that product may cause. Naturally, progressives are broadly against this.
-- Spike Cohen
The politicians who shut down businesses for the last two years are suddenly concerned about local businesses in Ottawa [due to protest truck convoy].
-- Andrew Lawton
100 thousand truck convoy and NOT one building burning and NOT one person hurt.
-- somebody on the internet
Suddenly the Government cares about businesses in Ottawa being closed?! After hijacking my restaurant for 2 years.
-- Chef Michael Hunter
It was naive of me to think that the evidence would cause a sudden realization that this virus was behaving like a normal virus. We were not all going to die. We would use rationality and reopen. I recall writing that with a sense of confidence that the media would report the new study, and the panic would end. I was preposterously wrong. The drug of fear had already invaded the
public mind. Once there it takes a very long time to recover.
This is made far worse by politics which has only fed the beast of fear. This is the most politicized disease in history, and doing so has done nothing to help manage it, and much to make it all vastly worse. We've learned throughout this ordeal that despite our technology, our knowledge, our history of building prosperity and peace, we are no smarter than our ancestors, and by some measures not as smart as our parents and grandparents.
The experience with COVID has caused a mass reversion to the superstitions and panics that sporadically defined the human experience of ages past. Eventually people have and do come to their senses, but it is as [Charles] MacKay said: people go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
-- Kate Wand
It is so sad to see our once wonderful and respected country turn into one of the haves and have-nots where the unvaccinated are treated like trash and mocked, excluded, named and shamed by our politicians, sanctimonious elitists and leftist doctors. (I am fully vaxxed BTW).
-- Sue-Ann Levy
Governments are at fault for destroying our rights and freedoms, galloping inflation, the mental health crisis, the energy crisis, the soaring public debt, the collapse of our healthcare and education systems. Not the vaccinated or unvaccinated. We must unite against the governments who are responsible for this dystopia.
-- Maxime Bernier
[The pandemic narrative is] completely crumbling, [including] false statements regarding asymptomatic spread, reliance on lockdown and masks – which obviously didn't work – the suppression of early treatment, the mass promotion of vaccines that failed. The narrative has crumbled. No one can be forced into it ... and they're not turning out to be safe or effective.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
It is simply unbelievable how one can even think of vaccinating children with genetic vaccines, knowing that even conventional vaccines sometimes take an extra 5 to 10 years before they get licensed for children.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
Why do so many of you always get angry about the wrong thing at the wrong time? How ridiculous it is to watch the nation in a frenzy about an office party, when it sat in dumb stupor through the greatest attack on its freedom in centuries.
Look, it is not the parties that matter. What mattered was that you were unjustly and mistakenly ordered to endure absurd limits on your life, by a government that panicked.
And you did as you were told. I am genuinely unsure what kind of men and women they were who actually denied people contact with their dying relatives. Could you do that?
But such behaviour, like the forcible separation of families at funerals and all the other hysterical rubbish of the Covid crackdown, should have been howled down.
We all, in our lives, know the real and proper limits of power and authority. We know what we can reasonably ask of others – and what we cannot.
But when the Johnson Government came to us in March 2020, ordering us to stay at home and telling us to behave as if the Great Plague was loose in our midst, when it so plainly was not, that was the time to be angry.
But mostly, you were not.
-- Peter Hitchens
Everyone is telling us to “trust the science”.
Science hasn’t concluded their research on any of these vaccines yet. So I can’t trust science that isn’t available yet. On our own government website! People need to be brought back to square one. It’s not unreasonable for people to not want permanent injections that are new. Simple as that. Leave us alone.
-- Benjamin Stiller
Strange how, over the course of the Pandemic, the number of people who believe they are so right and know everything has grown; in my lifetime, society has spent 30+ years trying to address institutional and personal discrimination against others, particularly minorities, and in a matter of months, discrimination has become the new norm, even a sport.
-- somebody on the internet
It's amazing how this virus continues to conveniently have the same side effects as the shot that supposedly prevents it.
-- AdelardRen
It's the only pandemic that we need the government and media to constantly remind us exists.
-- somebody on the internet
You don't threaten my body, my livelihood and my wellbeing, and expect me to show up with a smile and bells on. They did this.
-- anonymous government employee
Alarmist bed-wetters devastated that they can no longer impose their pedantic hypochondria on others, crestfallen that their noble activist crusade of harassing other people at supermarket checkouts is about to become redundant. The "wear a mask" hashtag is like prisoners refusing to leave the camp when the gaurds have quit, left the gate open, and gone home.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
What is right for you may not be right for me. What is right for me may not be right for you. But what is not right for either of us is being stripped of the freedom to choose what is right for ourselves.
-- Anna Gala
Some major international newspapers are apologizing for their hysterical coverage, and their failure to hold authorities to account. The rats are fleeing the sinking ship that is the lockdown narrative. Sky News: "our daily case is now meaningless; why do we live with flu; is media ignoring vaccine side effects"? Oh now you're asking these questions? The only question you asked at government press briefings for the past two years is why aren't we locking down harder. And now only as we near the end, are you asking these questions? Sky News, once more highlighting the important distinction of people who died with and from covid. Again, where were you two f**king years ago? You don't suddenly get to pretend that you're speaking truth to power, when for the past 24 months you've been begging the power to abuse their powers even more.
For the lion's share of the decade so far, you've behaved like dutiful members of the lockdown politbureau, like nazi collaborators in France on VE Day. Me, Vichy, no, informant no, I was always in the French resistance, honest.
The same media class grifting off all the lockdown heartache stories to score cheap points against the [politicans] missed cancer screenings, loved ones dying alone in hospitals, funerals via a live web stream, depression, alcoholism, suicide.
When they all vehemently lobbied for lockdown for harsher lockdown measures than the [politicans] even imposed, you don't have the moral high ground. You never did. Sit the f**k down!
Boy is it a refreshing white pill to see some of these mercenaries scuttle away with their tail between their legs. The pandemic may not be over but the grift appears to be coming to an end, as it increasingly becomes clear we were right and they were on the wrong side of history.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
What else could they have gotten wrong in COVID-19? The sacred union of incompetence and arrogance.
-- Dr. Christian Perrone
Can we do a reverse lockdown where everything is open, no restrictions, no masks, no vaccine passports, and the people afraid of normal life can stay home?
-- Canadian for Freedom
Of course all scientists agree when you censor the ones who don't.
-- somebody on the internet
Don't use the vaccines as a mechanism of social control. Don't use the vaccines with mandates to divide society and get people laid off work. Our political leaders, our epidemiological leaders have labored under this illusion they can stop the virus from spreading. The whole pandemic, they've thought this. And that strategy has obviously and clearly failed. The best we can do is protect the vulnerable. The pandemic ends - it's not actually a biological question - it's a political question. When are we reached a point where we can say enough is enough. We no longer need all these restrictions. They're not accomplishing much, and actually harming many people.
-- Dr. Jay Battachaira
Throughout this pandemic, we've been missing the point. Public Health has been wrong time and time again. And any suggestion that vaccinating the balance of the 10% will get us out of the pandemic is not grounded in any reality. Public Health told us that we're going to exit as soon as we're at 70% ... 80% ... we're now at 90% almost of eligible Ontarians, and here we are back in lockdown. Passports and mandates didn't work ... and that spread was not prevented. My focus has always been on demanding better service from the government. Government has failed to build hospital capacity, and it is artificially choking hospital capacity. That's the reason we're cancelling surgeries.
-- Roman Baber, Member of Provincial Parliament, Ontario
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
-- Simone de Beauvoir
When times turn bad, and there are always bad times, the reckless and bad ideas get woefully exposed. As soon as the virus arrived among us, our democratically elected governments, eagerly abetted by their preferred scientific advisors, threw away all the plans they had had for dealing with a pandemic. Plans laid down after years of preparation and discussion. Plans in line with advice from the world health organization, and replaced them overnight with tactics lifted straight - I can only assume - from the Chinese communist party's big boys book of totalitarian control. All over Europe and the developed West it was the same.
They helped, themselves those elected representatives of the tax paying, law-abiding public, to powers unprecedented in peacetime - the sort of powers indeed that might give dictators and emperors excited dreams. With the craven complicity of the so-called political opposition, they drafted and passed outrageously invasive laws with barely so much as a nod to discussion or debate.
In the past few days here on GB News, we've highlighted the results of a freedom of information request made to the Office of National Statistics. Coverage of the reply has been absent from the mainstream media. The ONS was asked how many otherwise healthy people had died in England and Wales of COVID and nothing else. The answer was 17,371 across the two years. Average age over 82. These figures are comparable to say the least with the death toll that might be expected from a typical flu season. All lives matter including those 17,371, but there are nearly 70 million people in Britain around 700,000 of us die every year of all manner of causes. I look at these facts these figures and I cannot begin to imagine making sense of what has been done apparently in the name of public health.
I have worried for a while that there's a tsunami of another sort coming our way we've all seen the disaster movies when the tide suddenly drops away disappearing over the horizon after some deep impact out at sea before rushing back as a towering devastating wave sweeping all before it. There's still so much we don't know, still so much we're not supposed to talk about, ask questions about. We cannot, and will not have for years yet, long-term data about either the efficacy or safety of the vaccines.
-- Neil Oliver
One thing I know is that 'freedom' and 'mandates' don't co-exist.
-- JP Sears
NEWS FLASH... Masks didn't work, vaccines didn't work , but hey, keep doing the same thing expecting different results. Perfect example of insanity. We are going to die of something ... hope it's not government.
-- Beth Ann Dallara
The thing about smart people is they sound crazy to dumb people.
-- somebody on the internet
People who read and do research will always sound crazy to the people who don't.
-- somebody on the internet
No one is saying that covid isn't real; no one is saying that covid doesn't suck for some people that get it.
With everything in life you have to weigh the risk and rewards, the pros and cons.
-- Steven Crowder
Do not follow the majority, follow the right way.
-- somebody on the internet
It’s amazing how consistently and comprehensively COVID authoritarianism and The Science(tm) fails and how uninterested media outlets are in covering it.
-- Ian Miller
Leftist logic. Unvaccinated nurses with natural immunity were fired just so vaccinated nurses who tested positive for the virus could be allowed to work as long as they're asymptomatic. Is this what 'following the science' looks like?
-- Charlie Kirk
Obviously, masks are not necessary. They are part of the current genre of safety kabuki theatre. Of course, anyone who chooses to wear a mask in a free society should be able to do so if they wish. But mandating masks on children is nothing more than a punitive and sadistic sign of submission to the deep-seated and perhaps irreparable hypochondria of sincerely troubled adults. At this point, it’s pathological.
The government of Ontario remains wedded to policies that have simply inflicted the maximum human carnage imaginable whether by good intent or malice. But as Bari Weiss recently put it, as in blue states in America, we here in Ontario are trapped in a 'pandemic of bureaucracy' to be 'remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime.'
We have lived under the capricious rules of Ontario's biomedical tyranny for almost two years. At this point, the question of malice is legitimate.
-- Laura Rosen Cohen
I vote mandatory working out and healthy diets. Your QR code won’t let you in restaurants or McDonalds if you haven’t done your 4 this week.
-- Benjamin Stiller
Millions of unnecessary deaths worldwide due to blocking of early treatment to justify universal vaccination. Crime against humanity.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Our public health experts and political leaders have lost the plot. Their orders don’t add up, but they don’t seem to care. If Canada was led by decent, honest people, we would end all health restrictions and announce an end to the pandemic.
-- Candice Malcolm
These people clearly aren't well. Large swaths of America are in a Covid cult. Politicians, bureaucrats and the media have been manipulating them for the past two years, spinning them into a frenzy of self-righteousness and fear. The people who are still fanatically all-in seem to want to be controlled. They enjoy the submission, the division, and the snobbery of their government-backed beliefs. It gives their meaningless lives meaning, and a false sense of power over others who won't bow down to the doctrine of the day. And they'll do anything to keep all this from changing. They'll cling to this pandemic and the protocols no matter what.
-- Jesse Watters
What the [the Prime Minister] said ... it's morally reprehensible, it's outrageous. It's the type of commentary that a Prime Minister who's supposed to represent and look after the interests of all canadians should absolutely not be saying. It's the sort of thing that the media should be ripping him apart for.
You might not agree with the medical choices being made by certain people, but how can we have a country where there's this sort of division being fomented by the ostensible leader.
This is scapegoating at its most odious.
As the tyranny is ramping up, this seems to be a sign of panic. They're lashing out and attacking certain groups and trying to foment more division because their narrative may be starting to fall apart and they can see that.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter, lawyer
As we know, the law hasn't really been an impediment to the Canadian government doing things they want to do for the last two years.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter, lawyer
I've been arguing that the unvaccinated should not be unduly discriminated against we've seen. [Some] health care professionals [are] about to launch a judicial review against ... the government to say it's against the law to sack them from their jobs because they haven't had the vaccine. I've got to tell you I'm a hundred percent behind these people. This is about freedom of choice. And you know something, in Israel where they're now very advanced with the fourth jab, infection rates are rising, so
the whole thing is a complete nonsense.
-- Nigel Farage
Haiti did not vaccinate its citizens. The official vax rate is 1.4%. The country has one of the lowest covid death rates in the world.
-- site: Covid Positive News
I'm not sure so much thought is involved in this. People are constantly being urged what to think, but there's very little effort diverted to explain to people how to think. And when people are being told what to think, then again you're living in an unfree society. A lot of the things that that people say about about COVID seems to me to be open to dispute ... interpretation of the figures seems to me to be one of the most crucial parts of the whole episode, and one which I'd like to see seriously re-examined. But this only happens when we live in a society where people want others to think, and where the leadership of society wants people to think, and why people are educated to think. And we have shown very seriously over the past couple of years there isn't much thinking going on in our society, either at the top where it's governed, or in general.
-- Peter Hitchens
Even during a pandemic, there are more considerations that are needed than just public health, and there are undeniable tradeoffs involved in pandemic restrictions. When a government decides to, for instance, take away the right of mobility of its citizens, or their right to worship, or invade their privacy, or impose on them vaccinal passports, or close down businesses, we should be entitled, at the very least, to expect these decisions to be based on a broad range of considerations and perspectives.
-- Michel Kelly-Gagnon
Our political leaders have not only circumvented the parliamentary process to produce provisions that violate the Canadian Charter of Rights, but they've abdicated their responsibility for overall governance, which is the balancing of all sorts of competing interests, to a narrow so-called public health policy, and that that's also inappropriate governance in the most fundamental sense.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Premier Brian Peckford
Your case is ... in the early stages of ... the of the pandemic, when people didn't understand the magnitude of the risk, there was potential for justification for reducing parliamentary complexity to short-term efficiency. But as the pandemic has unfolded and we become more aware of its true risks, or lack thereof, we should have returned to the principles of parliamentary democracy as rapidly as possible. And with less and less justification, that's continued to happen, that circumvention of the parliamentary
process has continued to happen. I don't see how anybody can possibly make the case that ... conditions ... are as uncertain and dire as those ... in the initial phases of the pandemic.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Premier Brian Peckford
You're mounting a challenge to the integrity and constitutional appropriateness of a series of laws that have been passed in Canada over the last two years, and you're mounting that as one of the establishers of the Charter, upon which the entire country is predicated, making the claim that these actions violate both the spirit and the law that governs our land at the deepest possible
level of analysis.
That's the first thing. The second thing is the collusion between the press and the governmental agencies that are circumventing the parliamentary process is so intense that it's almost impossible to have this discussion in the public landscape; there aren't
venues for that.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Premier Brian Peckford
These sacrifices were first presented as temporary, but it seems politicians and public health officials have become comfortable keeping them as permanent back-pocket options in place of more innovative and, frankly, more effective solutions. Whenever restrictions are eased or lifted, there remains a persistent threat that the hammer will come back down at some point.
Our leaders often say the decision to limit our rights is hard, and yet falling back on draconian measures has clearly become the easy way out for them.
It’s disturbing to watch these rights be cast aside time and time again, with little thought as to how doing so may change the very fabric of our nation. The longer we treat basic freedoms as optional, the harder it’ll be to return to a state where they’re unassailable and truly guaranteed.
-- National Post
[The] view that the [proof of vaccination] policy is “popular” is hardly a justification for it because decisions about fundamental freedoms shouldn’t be made on the basis of public opinion. The very fact that this policy disadvantages a minority group—those with certain physical disabilities who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons—is a clear example of why rights are not granted on the basis of popularity. John Locke long warned against the tyranny of the majority. It’s why we have a constitution after all.
-- Christine Van Geyn
I'm not easily forgiving anybody who advocated and supported discrimination and segregation against people who didn't want to take the jab, or who wished pain and death upon them. It isn't simply a mistake. It is a demonstration of your evil nature.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I can't forgive and forget the people who maliciously enabled the tyranny against us for paltry things such as virtue signaling and social acceptance. There are many people who fall into this category and there are many others who had good intentions and were convinced that they were doing the right thing. I personally have empathy and no ill will towards the latter people. The people that I have a problem with are the former the ones who seem to revel in the fact that they have some sort of elite status. They love the fact that they can get access to restaurants and bars with their little passport while those of us who refuse to comply are barred from entry. And that's part of the reason that many of these people don't want the pandemic to be resolved and the restrictions to end because then they'd lose their elite status.
-- Brittany Sellner
There are people whose reaction to being proven wrong about something that caused immeasurable harm is basically 'oh well oops the science it wasn't clear on that issue', yet well perhaps the science would have been clear if you didn't aggressively censor every single scientist or healthcare professional or concerned citizen who had a different opinion than you. These people give us back our freedoms and then expect us not only to be happy about it, but grateful, as if our freedoms are theirs to give, and as if they are so benevolent to allow us outside our homes to go order a cup of coffee. Do not forgive these people, do not forget, and never ever allow yourselves to trust them.
-- Brittany Sellner
At first you start polite. I'm still going to be relatively polite, but I do firmly believe these politicians need to be publicly mocked and publicly ostracized for what they're doing in terms of unscientific garbage and absolute social destructive policy. If you mock them, then maybe other people will be saying well we'll be swayed to think yeah there's something absurd about what they're doing. There is something indefensible about what they're doing.
-- David Freiheit
You've heard me talk about idea pathogens. It is amazing to see the level of apathy and cowardice that allows for these realities to take place. It's not as though there are bigger guys that are fighting you, and they're winning the battle. You're simply opening the door and saying yeah come in and do whatever you'd like - you own me.
-- Gad Saad
Cloaking it under 'the greater good' is an amazing concept, because anything that is for 'the greater good' - there is no individual atrocity that could not be committed and justified in the name of 'the greater good'. And people don't really appreciate that until they come for them, and that's that's when people realize that 'the greater good' ... individual rights are
'the greater good', and if you don't value those, you're actually not fighting for 'the greater good' at all.
-- David Freiheit
I don't want to draw in the analogies. I'll say one thing: I never understood how society as a whole could descend into the madness of the of nazi Germany, until I'm living through this. And it's not to say that everyone's like ... well they're not
shipping people off. Yes they're not doing the same things, but the rationale is the same. The idea that people think Nazi Germany occurred overnight, where you could justify what you had justified doing to your fellow citizens. It's I'm seeing it now over time - we're two and a half years into this pandemic or two years in - we're not talking about winding it down. We're not talking about two weeks to flatten the curve - we're talking about taxing the unvaccinated, we're talking about 50 plus percent of the population allegedly if you believe these falsified polls which I don't ... supports imprisonment of the unvaccinated. I mean
what is next when you when you have such targeted hatred against an identifiable group? Are what you basically saying - exclude them from society? Talk about denying them health services, talk about taxing them extra for health services, and ultimately talk about imprisoning them for not wanting to get vaccinated. It's a rhyme - it's not quite as sharp of a rhyme - but it is as much of a rhyme as, not just 1930s Germany, but of other eras of that have descended into this collective madness.
-- David Freiheit
When you've given up your bodily autonomy, you've given up everything, and I thought that would have been the line.
-- David Freiheit
The government state, it grows exponentially like the proverbial blob. And the bigger it gets, the more it needs, and then the harder it goes after ... you chase people out. You get the brain drain, you get the financial drain. As we've seen in Canada specifically as relates to doctors, thus creating a situation where we have crappy healthcare infrastructure, thus creating a situation where the pandemic hits worse, thus creating a situation where the government has to come in and say look we've got to lock you down to compensate for the consequences of our neglect for decades.
-- David Freiheit
Why were such [ill-informed] voices amplified by the media? Why were the likes of [informed professors] silenced ignored and
smeared? Because the television media drunk the lockdown kool-aid. Their entire grift was predicated on keeping the British public terrified, cowering inside their homes, awaiting their daily dose of fear porn from BBC News, Sky News, ITN. Ratings and clicks; ratings and clicks. So of course they're going to amplify and make media stars out of the most ardent scare-mongering lockdown advocates, no matter how many times they were catastrophically wrong, and no matter the weight of the devastation that this has inflicted on our society.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Censors have a fantasy that if they get rid of all the Berensons and Mercolas and Malones, and rein in people like Joe Rogan, that all the holdouts will suddenly rush to get vaccinated. The opposite is true. If you wipe out critics, people will immediately default to higher levels of suspicion. They will now be sure there’s something wrong with the vaccine. If you want to convince audiences, you have to allow everyone to talk, even the ones you disagree with. You have to make a better case. [Some] people still get this, but the censor’s disease of thinking there are shortcuts to trust - is spreading.
-- Matt Taibbi
Looking at what's best for ordinary people, what's the endpoint? Surely it's a fairer society where more people are free, where we accept there are going to be differences, but we don't oppress and control people, and we don't prevent people from protesting when there are new laws introduced. Even when you happen to agree with the position of the authoritarian state, you of course have to be aware that it might not always be that way.
-- Russell Brand
I always think if you agree with what the government is telling you, and the media is telling you, have a little think first; have a little think before you go too far down that line.
-- Russell Brand
For a virus to be infectious, it has to enter the cell and start replicating there. You need a whole virus. The PCR test, on the other hand only gets fragments of a virus. And the most important thing is that it can be used in such a way, abuse it in such a way as to create cases that otherwise wouldn’t exist.
-- Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
You should be very observant of ... a particular narrative and how that narrative serves the interests of the powerful. Like the other day when we were talking about how unvaccinated healthcare workers and the unvaxxed were to blame for the spread of coronavirus, when another narrative that could be told ... is that hospitals are underfunded, and if you don't fund hospitals correctly, they won't be able to deal with diseases efficiently. One story blames a small population that have no power; the other story points towards corporate irresponsibility and government mishandling. Which story do you think the powerful want you to believe?
-- Russell Brand
Because vaccination is not reducing transmission, the current federal border policy for truckers makes no sense. An unvaccinated trucker does not pose any greater risk of transmission than a vaccinated trucker.
-- Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan [trucker convoy and protest]
The truckers should tell the government, ‘The sooner you comply, the sooner we can go back to normal. We’re all in this together!’.
-- somebody on the internet [trucker convoy and protest]
[Canadian Prime Minister] says the [mandate-protesting] truckers have no right to shut down the economy and to prevent people from living their day to day lives. Does not appreciate the irony that his government – for the last two years – has shut down the economy and prevented people from living their day to day lives.
-- Candace Owens
There's been a myriad of ways by which rulers have argued that your position has to be squashed, not because they're mean or bad, but because it's for 'the greater good'. And this is what we now see today and the soft dictatorships that is certainly growing in velocity in the west.
It is truly remarkable to see how easily it is for most people in the west to revert to the basal instinct of using all means to silence those with whom they disagree. The latest trend is to posit that anyone who disagrees with me is engaging in misinformation. Thus for the collective good, the misinformation spreaders must be silenced. Apparently this is not a violation of freedom of speech because it serves as a higher noble goal. Nothing is more important than freedom of speech - nothing. Everything that is decent in a free and enlightened society stems from that fundamental freedom. Authoritarian regimes throughout human history have utilized a variety of strategies to silence the 'rubes', but the argument is always the same - it's for 'social cohesion', 'it's for the greater good', 'for your own good'. If we don't eradicate this return to the epistemological dark ages, we will pay a very steep price.
-- Gad Saad
I have MS and I take an immunomodulator to keep it in remission. I recently got COVID, and had a rough go of it, likely due to my condition. None of this entitles me to pretend that you living your life as you see fit is an act of harm against me.
-- Spike Cohen
‘Unacceptable views’ in Canada in 2022:
Want to live a normal life
Be free to work, move around, shop, go to school
Enjoy equal rights
Not be demonized, segregated, and persecuted by one’s government.
-- Maxime Bernier
I followed the narrative, so much so that I was public about it. Not just on social media but mainstream media too. Slowly and reluctantly after critically appraising the evidence and independent verification from some brilliant minds I’ve had to change my mind. We must do better.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
I was the first in the world to publicly say this in The Times newspaper in October where I discounted the contribution of the mRNA jab to excess cardiovascular death. I now realise I was wrong!
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
We’ve been completely conned and the truth does not look pretty.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
From everything I know and have learnt from the most reliable pieces of evidence and experts in the past few months has caused me to lose sleep. I feel sick.
Good grief. What have we done?!
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
It’s time to end this nightmare. And to those of you that are still brainwashed there’ll be no better time than now not just to open your mind, but to clean it.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Every organization mandating boosters in young healthy people knowing the data on omicron's breakthrough rate despite boosting is making a big error.
It is ethically bankrupt, it is scientifically bankrupt, and it is going to cause serious damage to future vaccination efforts.
-- Vinay Prasad
Justice will prevail because mandating this biological agent is unscientific, unethical and impractical.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Full stop right here. Any public policy measure – from vaccine passports to discrimination – cannot be justified under the science, even if one's conscience is OK with apartheid. In fact, clearly this shows that, especially with Omicron, the vaccinated are the super-spreaders. Before we get to hospitalizations and deaths, the notion that the unvaccinated are somehow responsible for the continued spread of this virus is completely contradicted by the data.
What is clearly evident both from the hospitalizations and deaths is that the double-vaccinated are now worse off per capita even against critical illness, and that pattern appears to be accelerating. Again, this evidently shows a pattern of negative efficacy even against critical illness over time as the shots wear off.
It takes a true religious level of adherence – like a believer – to continue supporting his narrative, despite the plain facts before our every eyes.
-- Daniel Horowitz
Israel, the only quadruple-vaxxed country in the world (also using mask mandates and Covid passports), just broke global record for daily Covid cases.
-- Dr. Eli David
With N95 mandates, vaccine passports and 2 months of a lockdown for unvaccinated people, cases in Austria have reached a new high.
It's amazing how consistently and comprehensively COVID authoritarianism and The Science(tm) fails and how uninterested media outlets are in covering it.
-- Ian Miller
When the truth comes out, do not ask me how I knew. Ask yourself why you didn't.
-- somebody on the internet
We never needed lockdowns. We never needed to cause this horrible toll on society. What we needed to do was build health care capacity. The reason we're in lockdown is not covid. The reason we're in lockdown is that Ontario's health care capacity is deficient, and that has done nothing the last two years to build up Ontario's health care capacity. So we need to end this. we We need to end the lockdowns, we need to end the passports, and the mandates, and we need to return to normal.
-- Roman Baber
It's amazing how many people would prefer to coerce others than to tolerate the freedom of others in exchange for their own.
-- Joe Rogan
We got vaccinated. 84% of Cdns got a shot. 77% are 2x vaxxed. And guess what? We’re still locked down. We're still compelled to wear masks. We still catch covid. Liberals are singularly focused on the wrong antidote. They're so blinded by partisanship they can't course correct.
-- Candice Malcolm
Understanding that aerosol spread was from symptomatic to susceptible, we learned quickly that there was no need for lock-downs or other draconian measures. The Great Barrington Declaration was correct.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Asymptomatic spread was the biggest false narrative. It led to unnecessary lockdowns [and] social distancing; it led to off-label and completely scientifically unsupported asymptomatic testing. It is completely illegal and off the rails, from a regulatory perspective, to ever test somebody with a nasal PCR or antigen test who does not have acute symptoms.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
We've reached critical mass: pejoratives like "anti-vaxxer" and "conspiracy theorist" no longer hold any weight. Joe Rogan (unintentionally) made the world realize that these words are mostly used to deflect from truth. They are panicking. Truth has caught up with their lies.
-- Candace Owens
Adde "misinformation" and "disinformation". These words are purely weapons to silence dissent now.
-- Zuby (in reply)
One thing that really concerns me is the divisive comments of Justin Trudeau where he said ... he characterized all of the thousands of people involved in this as ... he said we should not tolerate them. And he said that they are holding unacceptable views that don't represent the views of Canadians. Well whether he agrees with them or not, they are Canadians and they are entitled to hold their views about covid policy, and they're entitled to express them safely and lawfully.
This is the same Prime Minister who famously said about Canadian citizens convicted of terrorism that, quote, "A canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian". Well if he's willing to defend convicted terrorists as Canadians, why is he condemning thousands of people who feel strongly about a covid policy in this country?
I think the Prime Minister's job is to unite Canadians, not divide them. I think his divisive approach to this makes the situation a whole lot worse, as does his quarantine policy on cross-border truckers, which is forcing up food prices and making life even more difficult.
-- Jason Kenny, Premier of Alberta [trucker convoy and protest]
It would appear that the so-called 'fringe minority' is actually the government. If the government had the mandate of the people, there would be a significant counter-protest. There is not, therefore they do not.
-- Elon Musk
This is important and not only for Canadians but for many people of many countries to understand: the number of freedom-loving people in your nations outnumber those gutless amoeba’s scared of their own shadows several times over. You aren’t alone. It’s time you gather together and force your governments to take notice.
Tyranny can only succeed if the people choose not to fight back.
-- Steven Crowder
We can have our lives returned to normal. There's still some danger but we've got this with competent leadership and care. We could return our lives to what they should be; we could have our country back; we could move forward into the future in a normal
manner.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson
It’s been 2 years of doing the same thing. People being forced to get an injection against their will. People losing jobs. People losing homes. And nothing has changed. It's not about a virus. If it were, as with any previous virus, there would be talk of prevention and treatment. Not now. Just get a test and wait for a ventilator or get an injection. This all needs to stop and stop now. The government has had its time and failed. Justin Trudeau will go down as the biggest political embarrassment that this country has ever witnessed.
-- Derek Lynch
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
-- Mark Twain
Downtown Ottawa is filled to the brim with people stacked on top of each other, protesting mandates from the supposed 'deadly virus', that led to the tyrannical measures in the first place.
And the only things people seem concerned about are the politics of the situation, and 'loud horns', rather than the 'mankilling super virus', tells you everything you need to know.
-- some guy on the internet
The vaccine fanatics - so wrong about so much so often.
-- Alex Berenson
Honestly, it's disheartening how many people are completely brainwashed by the Liberal propaganda. They believe everything they read from these media sources. It truly is a war of misinformation and so many people are in capable of critical thought or thinking for themselves.
-- Alanna Seery-Bunton
The postmortem of the last two years is sure to begin now in earnest. We will thereby be confronted by failure on an epic scale, orchestrated by our expert class.
Nationally and internationally, too many extreme decisions were made in too short a period by too few people with far too little reflection on the broader impact upon society.
In pushing for their preferred remedies of lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing—as well as flirting with vaccine passports and mandates—our experts intervened like never before in the proper functioning of a free society.
They have made themselves the inevitable target of future investigations and potential retribution.
-- Alex Story
'The science changes'. Yes, it keeps changing into things people said months ago and got banned for.
-- Clifton Duncan
How quickly we forget about what history teaches us. Those who fully comprehend the tyranny taking place right now will not submit because we understand the ramifications of doing so.
-- Tiamma Lee
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
-- Malcolm X
There is now, nor has there ever been, any science behind 'lockdowns' or 'masking' or any of the crimes that have been perpetrated against peaceful people. The [left political party] have, for a long time, been the party of authoritarianism in the name of 'the greater good'.
-- some guy on the internet
If you’re going to adhere to what is normal practice… wouldn’t it be smart to go to doctors who are actually treating the illnesses, rather than rely on [those] of the world that are sitting in the ivory towers, the public health officials that don’t actually treat patients?
That is in effect what America has done. We’ve relied on doctors who don’t practice medicine, while we have vilified and censored and ridiculed those doctors that have exposed themselves to the illness - many of them got exposed, they contracted Covid. They treated themselves with using these cheap generic widely available drugs successfully. It has made no sense what we’ve done during this last two years.
-- Ron Johnson, US Senator
Our governments have violated our constitution on many levels creating mandates, orders which are only valid if we consent. Our governments have broken National/ International laws and treaties against the people to push their agenda. Our governments have acted as organized criminals with their agents to extort, assault, obstruct justice. Our governments have terrorized our domestic society with threat of fines, jail, loss of jobs, no school, university, sports holding our children hostage if we do not submit to an experimental drug. They have destroyed or are working hard to destroy our economy. They are destabilizing our Nation. Please look up the definition of domestic terrorist’s and they fit the bill. They expect us to follow unlawful mandates that only have power if we consent. The government is an unlawful crime syndicate, breaking laws and stacking the deck in their favor to continue their abuse. When the government no longer works in the best interest of the people it is no longer valid. It is not the government institution causing the problem it is the people in positions of power who are causing the problem and they do not play by the same rules that you do. These people do not deserve your respect, call them out by name.
-- Dianne M.
Another prediction come true. The ones that drew the hardest line are now saying 'That wasn't me, I was never in favour of locking down or harsh mandates'. Many of the public will be the same. They'll be saying similar stories about how they weren't on board with the draconian measures. Pathetic people.
-- Johnny Cox
Amazing to see all the people suddenly so concerned about businesses being shut, after having advocated for lockdowns and restrictions for two years. Pathetic hypocrisy.
-- Spencer Fernando
[On mass formation psychosis] It's in the open. All of this is in the open. Everybody ought to realize, we don't have to be conspiracy theorists, we can just report the news.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
I encourage everyone to be safe and take care of your family, I do. But there's still some people that don't want to take it. And you shouldn't have to be forced to take something you don't want.
-- Shaquille O'Neil
The ones telling others to 'trust the science' are anti-science because that's not how science works in the first place.
-- Manda (somebody)
Lockdowns should be rejected out of hand. While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
-- Johns Hopkins study
Our medical professionals shrugged as a significant number of their coworkers were unceremoniously released during a health crisis. Callous university administrators and neurotic faculty members expelled a proportion of their students. Many business owners adopted the irrational and immoral vax passes simply to survive an assault upon their livelihoods while other members of their local communities shuttered their businesses. Overall, Canadians have been steamrolled, and many Canadians have been complicit in the gradual destruction of everything they once held dear and boasted about as Canadians.
Unfortunately, there also remain many Canadians who seem glad to be ruled, insisting that we all must be uniformly and strongly ruled, unable to imagine living without being ruled.
-- Travis Smith
And now our dear leader [the Canadian Prime Minister] has now gone into hiding after a tweet that, when you boil it down, said, "the vaccines have failed; get vaccinated". Yes, we're at that stage of the deterioration of things, and it's not good.
-- Travis Smith
[On the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms] You have your rights and your freedoms as an individual. This business of group rights ... completely disguises your rights as an individual. And we've got to be very careful going forward that we don't lose these rights to these groups, that they take over and dominate the government[s]. You must remain steadfast, that as an individual you come first, the groups come second. And that's very important for any democracy, anywhere in the world. When the individual gets submerged by a group or something else, that's the beginning of the decline of our democracy.
I helped write the damn thing, and they're wrong, and we're right!
-- Premier Brian Peckford
The covid fanatics have been wrong on every level: scientific, ethical, legal, in terms of health outcomes, mental stability, social peace, economic costs.
-- Maxime Bernier
I know of several families that include a vaccine-hesitant member or two among them. They know that if they want to continue breaking bread together in the years to come, they will have to exercise patience, forbearance and an honest commitment to listening and understanding. Apparently Justin Trudeau can't be bothered to exercise these virtues for the family that is Canada.
-- Kate Lynch
[On the Canadian Prime Minister maligning protesters] Start being a public servant instead of a public lecturer. They don't deserve to be treated like second-class citizens. They don't need to be told to fall in line and surrender to your cult of vaccines and one-size-fits-all medicine. Start listening to them because they make more sense than you do.
-- Sean Hannity
[Private medical company] and [Private medical company] COVID-19 vaccine business model: government gives them billions, gives them immunity for any injuries or if doesn't work, promotes their products for free, and mandates their products. Sounds crazy? Yes, but it is our current reality.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
This is not "misinformation" or "disinformation" — the CV19 injections are causing frighteningly large numbers of deaths based on statistical, epidemiological data.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
When will covid fanatics in our governments and media realize that by trying to denigrate and crush all dissidence, they’re actually destroying social peace, cohesion and harmony?
Dehumanize, denigrate, stigmatize and vilify peaceful dissidents to justify crushing them.
Trudeau and the lying media have been doing it for months.
That's the playbook of all authoritarian fascist and communist regimes.
-- Maxime Bernier
The real pandemic is people not being able to admit they were wrong.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Tip to whoever is playing [US President's] brain this week: The reason your messaging doesn't work anymore, the reason you are being tuned out at a record pace, the reason your incoherence has become almost physically painful to hear, the reason boosters are deader than lockdowns, isn't because of me or Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
It's because you have lied and lied and lied and all the CDC charts in the world can no longer hide reality. People see their vaccinated friends and family sick with Omicron. They see who is dying - the elderly and infirm, vaccinated or not.
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking.
Everybody knows that the captain lied.
At this point your best bet to is admit the truth: Covid is here to stay, the vaccines failed, therapeutics are our best bet, we're gonna test them as fast as possible, in the meantime get back to your lives, all mandates are out, and by the way [US health bureaucrat] will be headed to a well-deserved retirement by Valentine's Day.
You won't, you can't, but you should. It's both the truth and your only hope. And lying hasn't been working out so good of late.
-- Alex Berenson
I hate the fact that we live in a 'democracy' where we have to fight to be free of governmental overreach, government theft, and endless government intrusion. This is akin to fighting for your right to have two eyes, two kidneys, and the right to breathe. Freedom is the most fundamental right that defines our human dignity. And yet, we are sinking to the default reality of human history. A few dictators, despots, and “elected” officials deciding how much of our money we get to keep, when we can cross the street, when we can visit our family, when we can open up our terraces (on our private property), how we can make renovations to our home, along with infinite other oversights. Protect us domestically, protect us from external threats, and f**k off. We are free people. You work for us.
-- Gad Saad
Our governments took a bad thing, and through overconfidence, monumental incompetence, and with the dull-eyed stubbornness of mules, made it massively worse. More importantly, when they must have known they were making it worse, they did it again, and again. Now, rather than take responsibility and own up to their catastrophic failures, maybe say sorry for all the lives ended, lives ruined, lives compromised, a generation of children used like sandbags to protect the vulnerable from a flood, like stab-vests worn on the chests of adults, they keep holding up the tattered rags of covid like the remnants of a curtain to stop us seeing the reality that lies behind it. What lies behind that shabby curtain are consequences. And even now, those powers-that-be don't want us loooking at them, far less talking about them, and thereby understanding the crippling reality of them.
-- Neil Oliver
These protests are in response to the unprecedented infringements of the most basic and fundamental of rights that Canadians are supposed to enjoy, and historically have enjoyed well before the charter even existed, but which were entrenched in the charter.
This is such a monumental and historical thing and this is a battle for the very soul of our nation and for, again, those most basic of freedoms and rights. The right to visit family, the right to wear what you want whether you're wearing a face covering or not, the right to work, the right to choose what goes into your body - that's something that once upon a time the very Prime Minister who's pushing these things said that people in Canada have the right to
decide what happens their own body. These protests was the forcing of a vaccine mandate upon the trucking industry after it already been forced on everyone, but the truckers, to their credit, unlike other professions, they banded together and they're fighting back.
They're fighting for the very soul of our country and that's why they're there. And we're way past the point of dialogue. Some people may be complaining you know we should have a peaceful dialogue. Well the thing is there has been no dialogue whatsoever, no discussion, no allowance for dissenting viewpoints for two years, and the Prime Minister has said that he will not speak to the protesters, he will not negotiate, he will not talk to them, so there is no dialogue. All they can do is stay there and make things as disruptive as possible until change happens. This is what happens when there's a complete breakdown of the democratic system. This is the fallout of a monumental and utterly complete failure of leadership on all levels from municipal to federal.
-- Nicholas Wansbutter
The contrived coronavirus crisis has now been ongoing for nearly 2 years now [sic], and there’s absolutely no data showing that being unvaccinated poses any increased risk to anybody, if there was, you can be sure that would be the focus of the [UK NHS] letter, not ‘professional responsibility’.
-- web site Nursing Notes
Unfortunately, the majority in Quebec seem to love kissing the government's ass! Some kind of masochist craving where they willfully subjucate as slaves to the tyrant!
-- James Whitney
I think this kind of impulse is not limited to Quebec by any means. It's a very Canadian thing to crave safety and low risk. It's also very easy for many to believe that compliance equals compassion.
-- Paul Bulas
If you’re obese and unvaccinated, or 85 and still crowd-surfing at music festivals, yes this will likely go badly for you. But at some point, that has to stop being my responsibility. Doesn’t it make more sense to focus on helping the vulnerable stay safe and let the rest of us go back to living normal lives? There’s always going to be another variant. We can’t go on, forever, in permanent hair-on-fire, cancel Christmas, hand-jobs through a hazmat suit, freak-the-f***-out mode!
It's time to do what a growing list of countries have done and announced we’re going back to something more like normal. Beginning by recognizing that what we’re doing to kids is unnecessary and horrible, and I don’t even like kids.
-- Bill Maher
We’ve had this problem in medicine for a long time. The same people who in private care always say get a second opinion, want to allow only one in the public debate. But plainly the medical-industrial complex has not earned the right to claim monopoly status on information about his virus, or medicine in general. Yes, free speech has allowed people to hear misinformation sometimes, and a lot of it was yours.
-- Bill Maher
Despots reward compliance with more oppression.
-- Thomas Massie
In my view, technocracy has trumped the sound principles, established over decades and centuries, of basic medical practice, immunology, virology, pharmaceutical sciences and public health generally. In the process, political democracy, personal freedoms, free speech and choice have been dangerously sidelined and even censored.
-- Dr. John D. Flack
Of course the ‘bluechecks’ want to tell you that they’re just following the science in their new devotion to freedom. The science has changed! Dr. Leana Wen actually said so out loud, bless her heart. The science has changed in only one meaningful way in the last year-plus. The mRNA jabs look worse on an almost daily basis. But the uselessness of masks and lockdowns, the problems with school closings, Covid’s lack of risk to kids - we have known all that almost since the epidemic began.
In fact, what’s amazing is HOW LITTLE - not how much - has changed about the epidemiology of Covid in the last two years. I know. I have the receipts.
The control measures work just as well now as they ever have, which is to say not at all. If they did, we would not be headed into year three of Covid: The Little Epidemic That Could. No, what’s changed is the fact that despite two years of lectures, most people now understand the uselessness of what we’ve done. What’s changed are the polls.
Now we just have to make sure none of this ever happens again.
-- Alex Berenson
All the authoritarian measures Ottawa and the provinces have imposed for two years were immoral, illegal and unconstitutional.
-- Maxime Bernier
One of the most alarming developments of the past few years has been pandemic groupthink and the ferocity with which it has stifled dissenting views and debate. Anyone who questioned the efficacy of lockdowns was accused of deliberately endangering the lives of others. Those who sought out alternative COVID-19 treatments rejected by mainstream experts were shamed and even deplatformed by social media companies. The message was simple: Question the COVID narrative, and there will be consequences.
But there were still many brave enough to buck the mob mentality. And as time has gone on and scientific data on COVID and pandemic restrictions have become more accurate, it has become clear that the dissenters were right.
-- Kaylee McGhee White
There is not state of emergency and no threat to Canadians' security that justifies invoking the Emergencies Act. What we have is a series of violations of our fundamental rights and freedoms that a tyrannical government wants to keep in place by crushing dissent. They're only asking for two weeks of emergency powers to flatten the bouncy castles.
First you demonize your opponents. Then you falsely accuse them of planning a violent insurrection. You bribe the press to do your propaganda. Finally, you declare a state of emergency and give yourself extraordinary powers to crush dissent.
Have we seen this before in history?
-- Maxime Bernier
Using the Emergencies Act demands a true threat to national security, such as the threat of violence for the "the purpose of achieving a political, religious or ideological objective," or the overthrow of "the constitutionally established system of government in Canada." The suggestion that those definitions apply to the current situation, concluding that the legislation is essentially "unusable."
In less than a month, the prime minister has gone from dismissing the Freedom Convoy as a "small fringe minority," to invoking legislation that is designed for a foreign invasion or a civil war.
None of the new powers would even need to be considered if it wasn't for Trudeau's relentless desire to attack and divide Canadians for political gain.
-- Carson Jerema, Wesley Wark
We went from “15 days to slow the spread” to “you’re fired if you don’t get the jab” to “your bank accounts are frozen if you protest against us”. Somehow we are still the conspiracy theorists.
-- pseudonym Anonymous Patriot
No one should be demonized, hated, or discriminated against because of the choice they make with their own body.
Do away with modern-day segregation. If like the Medical Officer said, two doses offer minimal protection against infection, then the suggestion that risk of someone transmitting the virus is lower because their risk of infection is lower, is logically false. No one is putting others at risk, and no one should be made to do anything against their will. I am convinced that history will judge the last year as some of the darkest times in Ontario's history.
-- Roman Baber
I remember reading about propaganda in history books and thinking “wow this is so obvious, nobody would fall for this today”. Boy was I wrong.
-- somebody on the internet
If you believe that basic human liberties are contingent upon consumption of a product from a giant pharmaceutical company, that is in bed with the government, who made this product off taxpayer money, that is shielded from liability from its consumers, by the government … then YOU are a fascist.
-- Dave Smith
[Canadian Prime Minister]’s options were to lift the mandates and give Canadians back their freedom, or send in the riot cops. And [Canadian Prime Minister] has chosen to club peaceful citizens like it’s a bountiful seal harvest.
-- Sheila Gunn Reid
80 years later and the roles have flipped. Germans are praying for the rights, freedoms and safety of Canadians.
-- Rebecca (somebody)
Across the world, governments have accepted indemnity so that companies producing the vaccines don't have to pay compensation in the event of any harm done. And yet people hesitant about vaccine safety are dismissed and vilified as swivel-eyed tin hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Just being hesitant about vaccine safety and asking questions about products destined for their bodies. For wanting to wait and see what long-term research might reveal. Reasonable people are made targets for shame and abuse, sacked from their jobs, lives ruined. Careful now - people will say we are paranoid. No one can yet know the truth of it and yet scarcely has the topic even surfaced on mainstream media.
-- Neil Oliver
It's all about a virus apparently. A virus causing an illness from which almost everyone recovers. A virus whose victims are on average over 82 years old - older than average life expectancy. Let us never ever forget that fact - that fact from which all else has grown like poisonous weeds. It's for the greater good we're told; we're all in it together we're told. Now hand over your wallet and your dog and kneel down with your hands behind your back.
-- Neil Oliver
Telling people they can't feed their family unless they get the vaccine is just wrong.
-- James Gallagher, Assembly Leader
We’re giving a shot that makes a spike protein. That’s a toxin that latches to cancer genes in bad ways and turns off other pattern receptors. We don’t know how long the immune system is suppressed after these shots and how long these receptors are shut off.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
Remember, they used to release actual counts of the deaths of vaccinated people from Covid, but they stopped in October, once even their nonsensical “fully vaccinated” definition couldn’t hide what was happening to the numbers.
-- Alex Berenson
Justin Trudeau is living proof that annoying-but-harmless wokeism can quickly evolve into dangerous authoritarianism.
Never underestimate the force with which the self-righteous will act to suppress the freedom of others, especially under the guise of compassion.
-- Dan Crenshaw, US Congressman
Justin Trudeau's heavy-handed crackdown against peaceful protesters in Canada is not the action of a Western Democracy, but that of an authoritarian regime like Venezuela. [Trudeau's is] a government that is quickly becoming the embarrassment of the free world.
-- Yvette Herrell, US Congresswoman
Overreaching public health officials and politicians - and the journalists-in-name-only who served as their mindless, unquestioning megaphones - have fully earned our withering condemnation. Indeed, holding them accountable is essential to sparing ourselves and future generations from repeating this dystopian chapter of human history.
-- Brian McGlinchey
The increasingly bizarre and inconsistent 1984-style autocratic COVID19 dictates we have been victim to, have been shattering any belief that world health agencies, government leaders, global elites, and the international corporations they run, know what they are doing.
If there had been REAL health concern, COVID would have been long gone from our rear-view mirror by simply following worldwide expert frontline physicians, nurses, scientists, and researchers who’ve been bitterly attacked for sharing their knowledge of prevention strategies and resoundingly successful early treatment since the beginning.
-- Laraine C. Abbey-Katzev
If the scientists who promoted lockdowns were so wrong, and the scientists who knew it from the start were so right [like Jay Bhattacharya, MD], why are the scientists who were right called ‘fringe,’ and the scientists who were wrong still in charge?
-- Sharyl Attkisson
Mask wearers are cowering to the whims of the clinically insane.
-- Dr. Vernon Coleman
Nobody. Nobody was vaccinated with informed consent. Nobody.
-- pseudonym Unapologetic Conservative
There’s been no change in the underlying science. The ineffectiveness of those policies was apparent long ago. The destructiveness of those policies was apparent long ago.
-- somebody on the internet
Bona fide pandemics do not require an advertising budget to know. Safe and effective vaccines do not require compulsion for people to administer.
-- David Freiheit
You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it's not doing anything and we've got to stop with this COVID theater. So if you want to wear it, fine, but this is, this is ridiculous.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
Randy Hillier was a very early critic of PCR testing thresholds, restrictive lockdown policies, and the suspension of civil rights in Ontario. That’s called standing up for freedom. Draw your own conclusions about those who find it "controversial".
-- Derek Sloan
Just heard a guy say 'some of you have never read '1984' and it shows'. Isn't it the truth?
-- Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Real science loves questions - remember that the next time someone tells you the science is settled.
-- Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Let’s leave aside that there is near universal acknowledgment that lockdown was a bad idea with ruinous consequences that will linger as a shadow on the nation’s lungs for years to come. Doubts raised from the beginning, about every aspect of the official response, and which were loudly – even viciously – dismissed as tantamount to treason – are now revealed as entirely justified. Already long is the line of those who once baited and ridiculed those questioning the official narrative, but who are now keen to distance themselves from old opinions, in hopes of it appearing they were always wary, always unsure, that they too had had their doubts all along.
Surely the last two years have shown us that the powers that be are at least fallible – and that it is not just our right, but our obligation and responsibility to ask questions of those powerful people, in hopes of revealing as complete and as nuanced a picture as possible. Surely we owe that much to ourselves and to our children.
-- Neil Oliver
If there is one lesson that the government has learned from its mismanagement of the Covid crisis, it’s that the more they screw up, the more power they give themselves to remedy their own screwup.
-- David Freiheit
Take note of the people in your life who are making excuses for these sanctions and bellicose government actions, telling you that "it's just a little more economic hardship"—there is a good chance that these are the same people who told you that COVID restrictions were just "a little inconvenient" as those caused massive economic and social damage over the past two years.
These are the people who have spent the last couple of years proving to you that they have terrible judgment and cannot be trusted with anything serious or important.
You must recognize and internalize the fact that they will go along with ANYTHING. They will believe ANY lie, no matter how absurd. They will accept any tyranny, no matter how obscene.
They are a danger to you and every decent person you know, and you should treat them like it.
-- somebody on the internet
I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation.
-- Scott Stabile
I still remember very clearly when these people – including a lot of people with a lot of degrees – were telling us, 15 days to stop the spread. These people had no idea what they were talking about. [Those in power want people] to forget that their choices were the wrong choices that basically led to no appreciable benefit.
-- Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
We inverted the precautionary principle do not cause harm by doing the one thing we knew that would cause harm. Now, we watch the devastation.
-- Sunetra Gupta, Epidemiologist, University of Oxford
UK data showing the triples [jabs] are failing, and perhaps backfiring with greater rates of infection. WHO has warned against them for concerns over ineffectiveness or perhaps weakened immunity.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Sweden sent all their kids to school for two years; not one kid died. But it was irrelevant to Americans who, like sheep, ruined their child’s lives. That is how bad totalitarianism is: people will sacrifice their children to the state.
-- Dr. David Martin
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
-- F.A. Hayek
If a pharmaceutical company that’s basically in charge of the entire human population right now, and that’s true, is asking not to reveal its safety data for 75 years, you should get concerned because the only reason anyone would ask not to reveal safety data is if they’re afraid of what people are going to think about the safety data.
-- Dr. Jessica Rose
Public health is now “the definition of propaganda”, seeking behavioral outcomes through moralistic framing, frowning on objective data that could give “false reassurance”, said bioethicist Aaron Kheriaty.
-- Front Line Critical Care Alliance group
When evidence-based medicine was replaced by fear. Two years ago, we uncritically accepted unreliable mathematical models that predicted this kind of microbiological apocalypse. The world panicked and embraced a whole series of draconian measures of dubious effectiveness and enormous cost. Used fear as an agent of public policy which is totally anathema to principles of public health. Now enormous sunk costs of reputation, of politics, that make it so hard to change and so hard for many people to have to admit that what they did was wrong.
-- Dr. Richard Schabas, Former Chief Medical Officer of Health for Province of Ontario
"The Dissidents" - a group of scientists, many of whom are also medical doctors, who ask questions, while a majority of their peers have done away with the scientific method or have been cowed into silence. A handful of scientists and doctors have spent the past two years defending mainstream public health approaches and scientific rigor against the pandemic response bureaucracy.
-- Pierre Kory
Despite most people dropping the masks and life seemingly going back to normal, there is a significant minority of people who are still wearing the masks everywhere they go - including outdoors!
I often wonder, when will they stop? My conclusion is that they won't. These people will continue to wear these masks for the rest of their life, safe in their delusional belief that a little piece of cloth was the answer to the 'most deadly virus since the black death'. In fact, these people are merely signalling their mixture of fear and compliance, these are the people that the Establishment want the rest of us to be more like.
-- somebody on the internet
The lesson for mRNA fanatics should be obvious. Covid vaccine advocates have already run arguably the most massive and coordinated propaganda campaign in human history. It has stretched across governments, companies, the media, academia. It has drawn on cutting-edge social science research on ways to “overcome hesitancy” and induce compliance through fear and guilt. (I promise to come back to this issue.)
This campaign dwarfs the Kremlin’s efforts.
And it has succeeded. Across the United States and the rest of the developed world, something like 90 percent of eligible adults have taken at least two mRNA (or DNA) doses - far more than take influenza shots each year, and more than most vaccine advocates predicted when the jabs were first rolled out.
Yet the last two months have seen far more Covid infections than ever before. And the vast majority of Covid deaths in mRNA countries are now in the vaccinated.
I am not your problem. Censoring me may feel good, but it does nothing to solve your problem. Your problem is that your vaccines don’t work. If your vaccines worked, no one would listen to me. No one would be reading this email.
Stop lying. Stop censoring. Admit the truth. Make better vaccines and people will take them.
Until then, the resistance is only going to grow.
-- Alex Berenson
Covid emerged in 2019. Vaccines made for it in 2020. Covid mutated significantly since. People keep getting boosters of vaccine designed for 2019 virus. Why? Because Science™. Now shut up and go get your 4th shot.
When asked in 2020 what would happen if new variants emerge, [name brand company] CEO said “we will quickly update and release a new mRNA vaccine for new variants”. Well, no in 2022 people are still getting 4th and 5th shots of the original vaccine designed for the original 2019 virus.
-- Dr. Eli David
For two years the organized left, in Canada and the US, have championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals – call them the Lockdown Left – cheered on unprecedented levels of repression.
-- Christian Parenti
It's bad enough that the average IQ is so low out there. So many parents decided to just switch off their brains, and outsource their parental responsibilities to the state, and obey every bloody word that came out of the television when it came to how to live their lives, and what was best for their children. And that's to say nothing of the fact that a disturbing amount of parents consented on their child's behalf to have them jabbed with a substance they didn't even bother to research for themselves.
-- Dave Cullen
Vaccine mandates have no public health benefit, which is why they are not recommended by any global, national or local public health bodies (WHO, CDC, state and local health commissions, etc.).
Therefore, any institution that still has such mandates is going against the recommendations of public health experts to unjustly discriminate.
-- Debbie Lerman
You want to end the mandates? Make vaccine manufacturers liable. You want safe vaccines? Make vaccine manufacturers liable. You want effective vaccines? Make them liable. If you want to end all this now, we need to make vaccine manufacturers liable!
-- Dr. Christina Parks
"A science of real integrity would be one in which practitioners are careful not to cling to cherished hypotheses and take seriously the
outcome of the most stringent experiments". [Jon Jureidini & Leemon B. McHenry].
What I like about that sentence is, remember if you can, the atmosphere around the pandemic. Trust the science, follow the science. It was used as ideological leverage to create compliance. Because of course if something is empirically, definitely, indubitably true, there's no point in questioning it. If we're dealing with absolute, facts then we can relax. These are the facts, this is what you have to do, these are the medicines you have to take, we've done the science, we've done the research. There's no other factors at play, no one's trying to make money, no one's trying to get undue power or influence. That's what I suppose science diligently undertaken affords us, a kind of certainty. But we have to of course have faith and trust that these scientific models are in the hands of people that are behaving with moral integrity, not just using the veil of science, and the language of science to pursue a particular agenda.
-- Russel Brand
Nearly all policy analysis suffers from the same issue: too much complexity for the available data. Political partisans yearn for statistical backing for their views, but scientists can't deliver it. Yet researchers flood to favored fields because there is plenty of funding and interest in results, and they peer review each other's papers without applying the sort of rigor required to draw actual policy conclusions.
-- Aaron Brown, Risk Analyst & Statistician, RAND Corporation
Lockdowns are and always were a devastating moral outrage. And just because we've learned to live with covid in the west, doesn't mean those who promoted and implemented the horrors of lockdown shouldn't be held responsible and investigated, and if necessary prosecuted for the horrendous damage they've done to society.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
No matter what country and when, lockdowns were, are, and always will be a moral outrage.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
The utilization of mRNA vaccines in the context of infectious disease has no precedent. The many alterations in the vaccine mRNA hide the mRNA from cellular defenses and promote a longer biological half-life and high production of spike protein. However, the immune response to the vaccine is very different from that to a SARS-CoV-2 infection. We present evidence that vaccination induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health.
-- Stephanie Seneff, Greg Nigh, Anthony M. Kyriakopoulos, P. McCollough
But if we’re having resignations let them all go, all the panic-stricken conformists and groupthink victims who rushed this country into economic and social disaster in March 2020. Let them all go, [those] without sense ... hypnotized by guesswork dressed up as pseudo-science.
-- Peter Hitchens
At present we have astronomic Covid cases, most jabbed people have zero protection remaining, old and vulnerable surviving and life as normal, apart from utter chaos in the economy, inflation off the scale, and people unable to get NHS treatment for life threatening ailments. Factors that will kill many more than Covid has, ultimately.
-- Steve Balmforth
I’ve never seen people celebrating the absence of therapies – they celebrate when a paper comes out showing that IVM [ivermectin] doesn’t work. What do those people want? I just want one thing: I want science back.
-- Dr. Flavio Cadegiani
The fully vaccinated accounted for 92% of ALL covid-19 deaths in March [2022]. Covid-19 is currently on the rise again across the UI, but the data confirms cases, hospitalisations and deaths are only rising among the triple vaccinated population, whereas they are declining significantly among the unvaccinated population.
-- site: the media is the virus
Still waiting for liberals to explain...
- Where the flu went in 2020
- Why the global death count didn't change in 2020
- Why Covid didn't wipe out the homeless population
- Why billions of healthy people were quarantined for the first time in history
- Why Covid avoided Africa
- Why Covid avoided places that didn't lockdown
- Why a piece of fruit and a goat tested positive
- Why the majority of positive cases at the beginning of the pandemic were people who hadn't left their homes
- Why Covid was the first virus in history where the majority of people who supposedly had it were "asymptomatic"
- Why lockdowns did NOTHING to slow the spread
- Why the vaccines did NOTHING to slow the spread
- Why we've seen an 1,100% spike in myocarditis in children
- Why football stadiums were filled with maskless people while our children were muzzled in the classroom
- Why the violent riots of 2020 weren't "super spreader events"
- Why the MSM doesn't cover the millions of adverse reactions and tens of thousands of deaths reported to VAERS
- WHY "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" WERE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING AND YOU STILL REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT
-- Dave cullen
COVID is now an industry, an ideology, and a cult.
If you comply to make it end, your compliance means it never will.
-- Mark Dolan
You are absolutely entitled to *believe* whatever you want to. Everyone should. However, when your *belief* requires my active participation in order to maintain its security, your belief can f*** off. I am not required to cater myself and my way of being towards your beliefs.
-- Danny Zeck
Anything that smacks of exaggeration is irresponsible. Where there is irresponsibility, no one will trust what is said, and when that happens, the man who is transmitting the words will be in danger. Therefore the aphorism says, transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
-- The Book of Master Zhuang
Bad ideas, poor thinking will always exist. It should trouble us all when illogical people force others to participate in their delusion.
-- Vinay Prasad
We've seen the evidence base accumulate over time that masks and mandates have been completely useless, from real world data to randomized controlled trials like the DANMASK study, [but] there's been a concerted effort to maintain the fiction that masks are necessary interventions.
Mandates have failed quite literally everywhere they’ve been tried.
-- Ian Miller
Forcing pilots to take the injections – against the law, just to be clear – in order to keep their jobs. The rule is egregious, tyrannical and simply makes no sense from an epidemiological perspective that assumes the injections actually provide protection (which they do not).
-- site Natural News
They’ve promoted strategies that have caused harm to all people. They’ve promoted strategies that have led to the loss of livelihoods and the destruction of economies. We don’t need your leadership. It’s not great; it’s awful.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
One of the biggest unanswered questions of the entire pandemic is why aren’t the people who didn’t get vaccinated or wear masks dying in their millions?
-- Dr. Adam Aneevit
It is beyond any shadow of a doubt that the vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths. It’s unequivocal. Now I’m a card-carrying epidemiologist, I’m telling you, the vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
I think science needs to be restored to its proper place. I think the conversation, the free-flowing discussion within science that ought to happen to make science work was essentially hampered during covid. It was very difficult ... you have to pay a great cost to speak up, and that shouldn't be the case in science. In science, it should be if you have an idea, you say it, and then if you're right, you're right; if you're wrong, you're wrong. It's not a career ending event. What happened during covid was if you were going to be speak up, you were ... it was just an exhausting anxiety-ridden thing. I think that needs to be changed so that science is restored to this proper discussion.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Vaccinations don't prevent Long Covid; they probably promote it.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.
We were told, if we don’t take the vaccine we may Risk being hospitalised & maybe die.
They told us we must take 2 shots as the first one is not good enough.. then a 3rd & 4th booster.
We were told not to trust in our innate immune system, they told us it was useless against the “VIRUS”.
We were told to listen to the government, trust the govt, stay home, & save lives.
We were made to close our shops, leave family members dying in hospital & use masks, as it’s for the “greater good”.
We were called Tin foil conspiracy theorists.
But now look who was right? We so called Tin foil “conspiracy theorists” warned you all.. you never listened.
-- pseudonym dark_universe_09
As we all rejoice about the mask free plane rides, myself included, I realize that this charade has always been about the psychology shift that occurs in people willing to tolerate, accept and allow blatant nonsense and fundamentally unsound behavior and requests.
-- Dr. Steph Young
COVID “vaccines” offer ZERO benefits.
-- Dr. Joseph Mercola
I interviewed 2 anonymous nurses and one anonymous nurse practitioner. All 3 work in emergency settings around the country. All 3 noticed a sharp increase in blood clots, strokes, heart issues, cancer resurging, etc. in mid-late 2021. All patients had one thing in common.
-- Danny Zeck
World leaders and so-called 'experts' told the public that getting the jabs would prevent people from catching the disease. Not only was that a complete lie, but the jabs in fact gave many who took them terrible side effects.
-- Mark Collettt
There is no scientific justification for Trudeau’s travel ban for the unvaccinated.
Those who support it should recognize that they don’t care one bit about science, freedom or democracy, but simply act like intolerant barbarians.
-- Maxime Bernier
The problem with the "big lie" is that sometimes, the truth is simply too vast to hide.
There is nothing like watching all your vaxxed friends get covid despite being boosted and knowing 20 people with vaccine related complications but not a single unvaxxed person with "long covid" to make the tall tales look threadbare. People ultimately believe what they see and experience. And their experience here has been one of false claims and failed products. And that truth will ultimately come out.
-- pseudonym El gato malo
Somehow they couldn’t accept that an institution [BBC news] they had trusted all their lives was pumping electronic slurry into their living room every night. It was absurd, so it couldn’t be happening. Yet it was. I wonder how much they would have put up with before they eventually realised what was happening, if ever.
-- Peter Hitchens
We know that those who’ve been vaccinated can equally carry high volumes of virus and transmit, so the vaccine doesn’t prevent acquisition, doesn’t prevent carriage of the virus, doesn’t prevent transmission of the virus, doesn’t prevent disease from the virus. Well, at least it decreases hospitalizations and death … but the data out of Denmark just showed, not it doesn’t.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
Every six months insertions of foreign genetic material coding for a pathogenic/injurious spike protein should never ever be considered a new normal for human life. Let history record the distorted groupthink and the complicity of the academic biopharmaceutical complex.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Mandating investigational genetic biological products with high rates of fatal and nonfatal adverse events and no long-term safety data should trouble courts and justices who are of sound mind.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Whatever you think of what the Freedom Convoy became, the complaint that sparked it was not unreasonable. Given the vaccination rate and the unchecked spread of COVID in Canada at the time, it made no sense to require Canadian truckers travelling to and from the United States to be vaccinated. Recognizing this and changing the policy would have taken the wind out of the convoy before it arrived in Ottawa. Showing sympathy for unvaccinated truckers would have cost the federal government nothing (and, because the U.S. had the same rule, it wouldn’t even have changed anything). But by then [the Prime Minister] had backed himself into an ideological corner from which even common sense offered no escape.
At this point in the pandemic, these restrictions look less like public health measures and more like petty vindictiveness.
-- Howard Anglin
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
-- Aldous Huxley
People think you can germ-proof the world and never have to be in contact with the things that can hurt you, but you can't.
-- Bill Maher
Many masked men believe the news media. The news media was once deserving of the term "Fourth Estate", for they were an independent entity, separate from the established interests in society. Not here. Not now. They are mere shills for the status quo. Anyone who told you to mask up deserves for you to never listen to them again. Others were wise enough to at least not believe the media. But they did even worse in a way — they believed their bosses, their family members, their neighbors, and their doctors who fell for this, precisely because they believed the media, all the while assuring you that they followed "the science". Not only were you gullible enough for them to lie to you, but you were so errant in your ways as to not ask them for the alleged proof of science they assured you they were following. If you would have, you would never have worn a mask. There is simply no legitimate science backing up any masking policy.
-- Allan Stevo
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream led by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.
For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms of care and "prevention".
For the first time in history medical treatment, protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated a single patient.
-- Dr. Russell L. Blaylock
We declare and the data confirm that the COVID-19 experimental genetic therapy injections must end. The data now show that these experimental gene therapy treatments can damage your children as well as yourself. They can damage your heart, your brain, your reproductive tissue, and your lungs. This can include permanent damage and disablement of your immune system.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
To give a chronic lipid nanoparticle and a chronic spike-making factory in your body, in your cells — we know that spike is toxic. We are messing up permanently the immune systems of people, and who knows what disease they're going to die from secondarily.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
It goes right back to the original dossier, because the FDA treated this as if it was a normal 'vaccine', whatever normal vaccine happens to be, and not like a gene therapy product, which is what it was, and they didn't do reproductive toxicology rigorously. They didn't do genome toxicity. They didn't do biodistribution. They didn't do pharmacokinetics. It goes on and on. Why didn't they do their job?
-- Dr. Robert Malone
There has been a world-wide, societal, acute, sudden loss of rationality in the pursuit of, clinically speaking, a delusion, which is a fixed, false belief contrary to reality. An example of that would be - if I drive in a car by myself, I need to wear a mask to stay safe. That's a delusion, that's not being over protective, that's not being emotional, that is a trait of a mental illness, it's a sign of something gone awry in the code, a glitch in the head really, is what's going on.
-- Dr. Mark McDonald
It's simply not possible to obtain data demonstrating adequate longitudinal safety in the time period any pandemic can last. Those who pushed this line of argument and enabled the gene-based agents to be injected needlessly into billions of innocent people are guilty of crimes against humanity.
-- Dr. Michael Yeadon
Some politicians and academics are now trying to save face with false claims that vac mandates "outdated" or that logic for vac mandates "no longer holds". Fact: there never was and never will be any ethical/scientific justification for violating basic human rights with vac mandates.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
No, ... "trust in institutions" has not served it well during this period. What has happened is that we have seen how corrupt and/or incompetent the people in charge of our institutions really are, and – to our horror – how our misplaced trust in those institutions has led to an abject failure of our systems of democratic oversight and accountability. The same "trust in science" ... has been manipulated and hijacked in this period to produce broad-based support for the most damaging health and economic policy decisions I've seen.
-- Gigi Foster
This pandemic, even if real, was never an existential threat. I don't think you could ever have killed more than, say, 0.3% of the population, which is not very far different from a really bad flu year. And what do we do in a really bad flu year? Nothing.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
These limp-wristed bureaucrats will continue to suffer vaccine injuries, many of which will be serious and permanent. Their families will experience the same. But rather than use their positions to admit they were wrong and sound the alarm, they'll just quietly resign and disappear from public life, because that's the safer option.
These people are a disgrace.
-- Blair Cottrell
The only way that they can hold this together is by keeping us all from talking by censoring. Censoring is their weapon of choice because they cannot withstand logic, they cannot withstand reason, they cannot withstand facts, and they cannot withstand open debate. That's why they censor us. They will not debate us; they can only silence us. It's their only choice.
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
You give a three-year-old a hammer, everything becomes a nail, and I kind of now need to modify that if you give a public health bureaucrat a hammer, everything becomes a nail, and the hammer in that case is vaccine, and they seem to want to apply it to everything. Robert F. Kennedy, and I are aligned on this. What [he] has asked for, that's caused him to have all this backlash in pejorative labeling and defamation, he's merely asked for the data. He's asked for the data demonstrating safety and effectiveness, and he's asked for the data comparing safety and effectiveness in the context of this multi-inoculation strategy, which has never been developed and assessed adequately.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
The pandemic can be argued as still in full fledge due to the VACCINE; would have been over (endemic) but vaccine non-neutralizing Antibodies putting pressure on the spike are driving variants.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
The next time we have a worldwide pandemic, we have to come up with a better solution than everyone becomes Howie Mandel.
-- Bill Maher
It was the admitted goal of our own leaders to make life unlivable for the unvaccinated. And as a deputized collective, we force-multiplied that pain, taking the fight into our families, friendships, and workplaces. Today, we face the hard truth that none of it was justified — and, in doing that, uncover a precious lesson. It was a quick slide from righteousness to cruelty, and however much we might blame our leaders for the push, we're accountable for stepping into the trap despite better judgement.
And we truly let ourselves believe that going into another ineffectual lockdown would be their fault, not the fault of toxic policy. And so it was by the wilful ignorance of science, civics, and politics that we squeezed the unvaccinated to the degree that we did.
After months of engineered lockdowns, having someone to blame and to burn simply felt good.
So we cannot hold our heads high, as if believing we had logic, love, or truth on our side while we viciously wished death upon the unvaccinated. The best we can do is sit in the awareness of our rabid inhumanity for having cast so many aside.
Betting against them has been a scathing embarrassment for many of us. We took the bait by hating them, but their perseverance bought us the time to see we were wrong.
-- Susan Dunham
Where there is risk of injury, disability, and death, there must be free choice with no pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal. When freedom is violated, then there is action taken against those suppressing choice. Lawsuit time.
-- Peter McCullough
In early 2022, the FDA advised people to stop using certain baby formulas after just 3 infants were hospitalized and one died. We recall peanut butter if 10 people become sick (nobody died).
Yet we have a vaccine which has caused more than a million times as many injuries as baby formula and peanut butter, yet the government cannot detect any safety signals and wants to mandate that everyone get it.
There are more than 500 articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature documenting vaccine injuries. These injuries affect an estimated 10M Americans. We stop baby formulas after just one death.
-- Steve Kirsch
A lot of the propaganda and information that's been pushed on us about vaccine efficacy and safety is fraudulent. I don't know how else to say it. That is the legal word for when you know you are saying things that are not true.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
The more doses of these products that you receive, the higher your risk for infection, disease, and death, compared to those that remain 'unvaccinated'.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Mask mandates were never about the science, the evidence or [to] reduce transmission - they were only about spreading fear to brainwash people so they could sell more vaccines, brainwashing people to line up like sheep to [be] injected with an experimental substance.
Therefore, if you were a politician that made masks compulsory - your stupidity, ignorance & arrogance may have caused more deaths.
-- Craig Kelly
All of our bodies are different. We all react differently to medicine. Some of you, heck, react differently to peanuts! Something as safe as eating nuts, and some of you die from it, which is why we put allergy information on everything. And yet, here we are, nobody's taking any responsibility for imposing vaccine mandates when we know, just like peanuts, that people's bodies react differently. And some people have died from this thing.
-- Maajid Nawaz
Any drug that does NOT reduce all cause mortality for the intended population it is recommended for can not be claimed to have saved a single life. And that's before we even start to discuss quality of life disabling side effects. Think about it. REALLY think about it.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
The world has gone mad from massive propaganda and censorship to support the "noble lie" to get us vaxxed "for our own good". This campaign has long been divorced from objective data/science.
-- Pierre Kory, MD
There's no proof that masks prevent transmission. Instead, they most likely harm those wearing them. It's a disgrace that most of us are governed by brainless pseudoscientists and misanthropic globalists these days.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Pushing vaccines is irrational.
-- Dr. Harvey Risch, MD, PhD
We're going to have infectious variant after infectious variant every two months; the pandemic will never end. So if you continue vaccinating, you're going to cause more variants. Problem is, those variants could be a very lethal one.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
There is no epidemiologically relevant asymptomatic transmission of respiratory viruses. What we learned in medical school has been confirmed also for SARS-CoV-2 by numerous peer reviewed studies.
Therefore, all non-pharmaceutical interventions, namely antisocial distancing, isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, face masks in the public sphere, school closures and curfews, nowadays called lockdowns, for asymptomatic people, previously called healthy, are ineffective also against SARS-CoV-2 and do no good but do only harm.
The only two proven effective measures to somewhat contain the spread of respiratory viruses are those we have known for centuries: hygiene and self-isolation of sick people.
-- Dr. Thomas Binder, MD
It was deeply unethical for public health and media to stoke panic in the population to gain compliance with lockdown orders. The price paid includes sharp increases in population anxiety and a collapse in public trust in public health.
-- Jay Bhattacharya
It is difficult for this Court to imagine what could be more intrusive and more destructive to the employer-employee relationship than requiring employees to forfeit their bodily autonomy in the name of maintaining their livelihood.
-- Ramsey County, USA Judge Leonardo Castro
Covid proved that most health "experts" are idiots.
-- Dr. Eli David
The experience over the past 27 months clearly demonstrates that lockdowns and many Covid-19 regulations largely failed in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections from transpiring.
-- Jonathan Jansen, virologist
[in response to Jonathan Jansen] It took a population of non scientists to predict and come to this same conclusion as early as day 1 of lockdown regulations. Let's await their conclusions on the impact of vaccines in another 2 years.
-- Chubekile Ntloko
The opinion of 10,000 mean is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
-- Marcus Aurelius
They were still on social media saying, 'These vaccines are as safe as other vaccines'. There's absolutely no way that they could know this because it takes 10 years to develop safe vaccines, and these were rolled out after three or six months.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
The elapsed time taken to get an adequate amount of safety data is always longer than the feasible length of any pandemic in history. In other words, a new vaccine is always, let me say it again, always the wrong answer. It will always take you longer to do a responsible job of creating and testing a novel vaccine than the length of the pandemic. And if you take less time, it means you do not have an appropriate amount of safety data and therefore it's reckless to go and vaccinate the whole population.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
How can you explain a 50% rise in all-cause mortality after the vaccines and boosters rolled out? That's the problem. They can't explain it. You can't explain a 50% rise in all-cause mortality after the intervention that's supposed to reduce all-cause mortality was rolled out. They don't want to explain it. That is why they are never going to show you the Medicare data.
-- Steve Kirsch
This consistent narrative of safe and effective is a complete and utter lie. Official data from the UK and Israel reveals negative protection from the COVID vaccine.
-- Dr. Paul Marik
The unnecessary stress that [was caused by] the mismanagement of this pandemic, has been worse for most than the pandemic itself.
-- pseudonym: Commerce USA
It's remarkable how many people believe themselves intellectually superior for repeating what authority tells them.
-- somebody on the internet
The COVID cult did lasting damage to our kids. What happened to the United States' kids was not the result of an innocent mistake. It was the product of a concerted campaign of censorship and demonization of dissenting voices in support of premises that turned out to be wildly harmful to children. Scientists, doctors, and parents who urged schools to reopen based on available evidence were systematically ignored and silenced by politicians, public health bureaucrats, and legions of dedicated online COVID-19 activists, while the most vulnerable children in U.S. society suffered the consequences.
-- Alex Gutentag
We're in the middle of an INFODEMIC and there's no cure in sight as "authoritative" sources are full of medical misinformation.
The worst part of the pandemic is not the virus, but the misinformation coming from the WHO, CDC, FDA and [US President's] Regime. The regurgitation of haphazard guessing and conspiracy theories based on zero science has created the most dangerous kind of pandemic – an infodemic.
Then came the mad, mad rush to get "vaccinated" with unapproved, unsafe, ineffective "clot shot" jabs that the CDC assured with their favorite infodemic lie were "safe and effective". Everyone was told if the majority of Americans just got these injections, the COVID "curve" would be flattened. Sure.
Then the CDC and FDA goons lied some more when that misinformation got exposed, and said, well, the "vaccines" won't stop anyone from getting the virus, and they won't stop anyone from spreading the virus, but they'll stop you from catching a bad case of the virus. Another misinformation fear-and-loathing propaganda campaign spread across all MSM [mainstream media], the most contagious and dangerous infodemic ever "released".
-- S.D. Wells
Leaving vaccine mandates and travel restrictions in place is embarrassing.
There are no good reasons to continue to discriminate against the unvaccinated minority.
Let's remember that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was brought in by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the father of our current prime minister, to enshrine the rights of minorities. He feared the majority couldn't be trusted to protect the rights of minorities — rights he fiercely defended. I bet he wasn't imagining it would be his own son against whom the minority needed such protections.
It is now clear that the continued imposition of these outdated restrictions is nothing more than punitive over bruised egos from the trucker protest.
-- Ashley Hughes
In other words, the variant-specific booster does nothing to solve the fundamental problem with the mRNA shots - that the supra-natural levels of antibodies they produce fade almost immediately, while they hamper broader immune responses.
-- Alex Berenson
The political virus which migrated from the Middle Kingdom alongside COVID-19 eroded governments’ capacity to tell the truth. No matter how pure the intention, governments have been telling their citizens things that are simply not true for quite some time now. The consequences of that will long outlast the pandemic.
Competing and contrasting explanation, rationalizations and justifications offered, depending on what the policy du jour was. It would have been refreshing for a minister or public health official simply to have admitted that they were, in exceedingly difficult circumstances, uncertain of the best option, or were following their gut, or taking the path of least resistance, or just doing what everyone else was doing. But no, it was always "the science", even if the science seemed to conveniently change as politically needed.
-- Raymond J. de Souza
The best way to be 'controversial' these days is to actually tell the truth. People have grown so accustomed to lies that honesty is deemed radical. Some people get offended if you even seek the truth. You’re not supposed to ask any questions, do any research, nor have any real conversations. What happened?
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.
-- Isaac Asimov
Sweden, USA, Germany, UK etc. In all these nations, for the last 2 years, there has been zero, not one death of a healthy child who has been COVID infecte4d, not one! There is no study, nowhere, that can show a benefit of the COVID vaccines for children, not one study. No risk benefit can show any net benefit ... none.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is because people are getting a toxin in their body that's inflaming their heart. If you look around the world, a couple of athletes per month used to die on the football field or on the soccer pitch. Now we're getting hundreds each month dying. Why? Is there something new in humanity? You bet there is: a toxic lipid nanoparticle and a toxic modified RNA that doesn't shut off. It's insanity to keep pushing the most deadly, dangerous medical product ever allowed to persist in humanity.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
Final peer-reviewed Swedish study in the Lancet confirms the early finding from last year, that Vaccine Efficacy (VE) drops into negative territory 7-9 Months after vaccination. This means the vaccine is actively contributing to more infections, and must be immediately stopped for mass vaccinations.
-- Ben [somebody]
The only thing mutating are their lies.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Those who get vaccinated to get their freedom back have already lost it.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
More and more people are talking a stand and pushing back against the lies. Courage is contagious.
For more than 2 years I've argued that mask mandates are contrary to the science and the evidence - and most likely counterproductive.
For that I’ve been abused, slandered & defamed, censored & cancelled. No debate was allowed.
The facts are that mask mandates were only ever about spreading fear - to help sell the poisonous vaccines - a stupidity peddled by idiot politicians. Mask mandates were a farce from start.
-- Craig Kelly
The mandate is appalling, unnecessary, completely discriminatory and not based on any scientific evidence.
-- Stephen Byron, Canberra Australia Airport CEO
What have the COVID-vaccine pedlars done to humanity? We abandoned the tried & tested principles developed over centuries:
. Freedom of speech
. Free and informed consent
. The precautionary principle
. The sanctity of the doctor/patient relationship
. Fundamental human rights
All because the authoritarian technocrats thought they were 'more evolved' and were smarter.
And we had a weak & cowardly generation of politicians that wouldn't take on the groupthink.
-- Craig Kelly
2020-2022 The Great Instruction. A period in which those who claimed to 'love science' had to be instructed on how evidence, soundness, logical calculus, and inference worked - so that they could differentiate propaganda from science.
-- pseudonym EthicalSkeptic
In Sweden, where schools stayed open, there was no learning loss. & guess what, the teachers didn't all die & the outcomes were better, not worse, than the US overall. Those who fought to keep schools closed owe kids here a giant apology. & a promise not to do this again.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Big tech restrictions on covid policy speech are the moral equivalent of book burning.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health should not be in the business of suppressing heresy. It should persuade with honesty, not coerce by censorship and the noble lie.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
After overseeing the worst public health fiasco in history, pushing school closures, ignoring collateral damage and natural immunity, not properly protecting the elderly, etc, it is perturbing that [the USA's public health figurehead] is still in charge of NIAID.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Friendly reminder that the loudest, most repetitive voice does not make it a real or truthful one.
-- Dr. Steph Young
Listening to the diverse and debilitating experiences of the many people affected with unexplained post vaccine symptoms, one cannot help but feel furious at those who have unleashed on us (and promoted and coerced and blackmailed us to take) these untested and unsafe experimental injections – and, incredibly, continue to do so!
There is a mountain of evidence, including the testimonies of so many who have been harmed, to show that these injections are not fit for purpose: they do not work, they are not safe, they systematically destroy our immune system.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
There was never any scientific justification for vaccine mandates. It's all about politics and [Canadian Prime Minister]'s nastiness and vindictiveness towards those who want to keep control of their lives.
-- Maxime Bernier
I have been asked often how long I think the spike protein will be produced following vaccination. I wish I knew. Since the mRNA getting injected has been extensively modified to prevent it being degraded and to keep its translation into spikes locked in the "on" position, it is anyone's guess how long it might continue.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
For a society that idolizes science so much, standards seem to be non-existent when it comes to COVID science.
-- Joe Martino
People don't buy into the narrative because they think it's accurate or because they think it's scientific or something. No. Unconsciously, the real reason why they buy into the narrative is always because it leads to this new social bond. Because it frees them from their anxiety; because it enables them to direct their frustration and aggression at something.
-- Mattias Desmet, Professor
Even more troubling, if that is possible, is their widespread failure to recognize and harshly condemn what has been, in effect, the staging of a massive new version of the Milgram experiment in our time, wherein government officials, the media and medical experts actively and quite blithely encouraged the infliction of pain upon those citizens who were simply uncomfortable with being forced to take highly experimental drugs with no proven track record or safety history.
-- Thomas Harrington
No one of any consequence has acknowledged, never mind apologized for the injustice done to the millions of people — I’ll say that again millions of people — who lost their livelihoods for their refusal to take an experimental drug whose performance has completely betrayed all the "do-it-because-we're-all-in-this-together" arguments that were bullyingly deployed on its behalf.
-- Thomas Harrington
I value honesty. If this product had been introduced as experimental gene therapy, I might have gotten the jab. Instead, we were mis-informed, and in some cases simply lied to, that there was a "vaccine" for the Wuhan virus.
I also value freedom. Take that jab. Don't take the jab. It's up to you. Instead of freedom, we get mandates. [Political leaders] force untested experimental gene therapy on the American people, all the while lying that it is a vaccine. There is no sector of hell that is too hot for these people.
-- Mark Glenn
They are purposefully missing the overall picture and slyly holding on to the pretext that will invite the insanity back at any point - that masks “work” to stop or curb the spread of highly contagious respiratory viruses.
They don’t, obviously, but their rigid belief system is not surprising. Belief in the power and efficacy of face masks has become a de facto religion to these cultist nutjobs, and they’re just itching for the next opportunity to impose their ‘faith’ on the rest of us.
Indeed, the unabashed insistence that masks ‘work’ has become one of the most insane and evil lies in all of human history. Not only did it create a false sense of security that doubtless led to more infections than would otherwise had occurred, it also led to years of speech and developmental delays in children, untold disruptions of societal cohesion, millions of tons of useless and pointless medical waste in our oceans and landfills, massive psychological issues in countless people who still mask-up in the absurdest of places and situations to this day, and even actual medical harms that are just being uncovered. All while doing absolutely nothing towards their intended purpose. If there has been a worse trade-off, I’d love to see it.
-- Scott Morefield
This is a dangerous product with no track record being used willy-nilly on humanity for a virus that no longer exists … does nothing but cause increased disease in those who now get additional series of shots.
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
In the beginning of the Corona crisis, back in February 2020, I started to study the statistics on the mortality rates of the virus,
the infection fatality rates, the case fatality rate and so on, and immediately, I got the impression — and with me, several worldfamous statisticians, such as John Ioannidis of Stanford, for instance — that the statistics and mathematical models used dramatically overrated the danger of the virus.
Immediately, I wrote an opinion paper trying to bring some of the mistakes to people’s attention. But, I noticed immediately
that people just didn’t want to know. It was as if they didn’t see even the most blatant mistakes at the level of the statistics that
were used. People just were not capable of seeing it.
-- Professor Mattias Desmet
When someone is in the grip of a process of mass formation, he becomes radically willing to sacrifice all his individual interest. Once people are in the grip of a process of mass formation, they typically show a tendency of cruelty towards people who do not buy into the narrative, or do not go along with the narrative. They typically do so as if it is an ethical duty.
-- Professor Mattias Desmet
Even while I know the mechanisms at work, I’m still baffled every time it happens. I almost can’t believe what I see. I know someone whose husband died a few days after the vaccine, during his sleep, from a heart attack. And I thought, now she will open her eyes and wake up. Not at all. She just continued in the same fanatic way — even more fanatic — talking about how happy we should be because we have this vaccine. Unbelievable, yes.
-- Professor Mattias Desmet
No parent. No parent in the entire world should vaccinate their kids with any of these COVID vaccines. Period. Full stop. End of story.
-- Steve Kirsch
[Canadian] federal COVD-19 policy continues to lag the science – it doesn’t follow it. The question now is whether the spin doctors, not the medical doctors, are making policy.
-- Dr. Neil Rau, Dr. Martha Fulford, Dr. Pooya Kazemi and Dr. Ari Joffe
You, the Canadian truckers, came along and simply said, 'No. We will not comply.'
And then something happened that is nothing short of a miracle: you organized the protest, which is possibly the biggest protest of our time. The headlights of your trucks became the Light of Hope, which worked its way all throughout the world, touching millions and millions of people, inspiring them to stand up and speak out against their governments.
Even though you, the Canadian freedom truckers, are subject to political persecution and are labeled terrorists, the day will come when your bravery and your determination to fight for freedom will be recognized and you will be granted your rightful place in the history books.
-- Christine Anderson, Member European Parliament
Restrictions had no impact whatsoever on the number or distribution of deaths. If restrictions had mitigated the public health threat then the empirical data would have fallen below the model but it never does. Evidently, there was no benefit in terms of reduced mortality as a result of the restrictions.
-- Joel Smalley
The CDC and MSM call it “vaccine hesitancy” but it’s more about “vaccine science” that shows the COVID-19 gene-mutation jabs are experimental, dangerous and ineffective. It’s not “hesitancy” if the statistics reveal that getting a clot shot is FAR more dangerous to the majority of the population than actually catching the latest coronavirus. It’s not a conspiracy theory that the clot shots are experimental at best, with “emergency use only” approvals and fraudulent clinical trials that reveal commonplace nightmarish side effects and adverse events.
Just because mainstream (fake news) media doesn’t cover the facts does not mean they are not happening all around us. When perfectly healthy athletes, pilots and military members drop dead from blood clots, myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes, just days or weeks after getting injected with gene therapy COVID-19 shots, there is valid reason to be very concerned.
-- online site Natural News
Despite a preponderance of the evidence proving COVID to be a non-event for most of us, over 1 million people have fallen foul to vaccine injury. This should be enough to stop most people in their tracks. It hasn’t.
Many emerge from near death experience even more pontifical than before, denouncing the rest of us for not joining in this mortal game of Russian Roulette.
There can be no avoiding these people. The ones acting in good conscience lost to the morally virtuous super spreaders of hyperbole.
They will believe whatever they hear and do whatever they’re told. They have been groomed by something far more powerful than the truth, called ‘the science,’ and they will follow ‘it’ right off the edge of a cliff.
This unholy mess works because a new ideology has swept across the moral fabric. Unless you’re taking an experimental medical intervention fraught with danger, you’re dancing on the graves of all those who have died.
Ridding people with guilt takes away their power, and blind obedience to authority does the rest, as Milgram discovered in his landmark experiment.
-- Dustin Broadbery
There is a long history of people’s superstitions being manipulated into performing irrational acts. Things are not so different today. People hold themselves prisoner inside their own homes. They risk the lives of their own children to protect those already on their deathbed. They do this for a disease which has had zero impact on overall mortality in 2021. To say that it’s a mad, mad world, doesn’t do it justice.
-- Dustin Broadbery
The largest cult in the world is the Branch Covidians. After all, have you ever seen so many people in blind obedience? I’ve not seen anything like it. It’s remarkable.
-- Jeremy Nell
We’ve got [US] government agencies guessing, hoping, or lying with the information they’re presenting to the American people.
-- Jim Jordan, United States Senator
Uh oh. Risk benefit of the vaccines is NEGATIVE according to a new paper from UCLA, Stanford, others. Whoops!
-- Steve Kirsch
Remember, if someone young and healthy dies unexpectedly, it is improper to ask about their vaccination status. That question is only for important occasions, like entry to restaurants.
-- internet pseudonym Noah
[Vaccine mandates are] unfair, unscientific bullying.
-- Pierre Poilievre
1 The infection fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 is 0.1 – 0.3%, which is not significantly different from some seasonal influenza epidemics.
2 Based on the peer-reviewed articles, at least 30 to 50% of the population has prior cross-immunity.
3 SARS-CoV-2 does discriminate. “The lethality of this virus, as is common with respiratory viruses, is 1000X less in young, healthy people than in elderly people with multiple comorbidities.”
4 Asymptomatic transmission is the “central conceptual deceit” used to “underscore almost every intrusion: masking, mass testing, lockdowns, border restrictions, school closures, even vaccine passports.”
5 PCR test is “the central operational deceit.”
6 Neither cloth nor surgical masks prevent respiratory virus transmission.
7 Lockdown is “epidemiologically irrelevant” and never works. “Only “stay home if you’re sick” works.“
8 “Covid-19 is the most treatable respiratory viral illness ever”. Safe and effective early treatments are available.
9 Based on the peer-reviewed articles, very few clinically significant reinfections of SARS-Cov-2 have ever been confirmed.
10 SARS-CoV-2 mutates slowly, and no variant is even close to escaping naturally-acquired immunity. However, there is the possibility that the so-called vaccines prevent the establishment of immune memory, leading to the repeated infections, which would be a form of acquired immune deficiency.
11 Safety is the top priority in a public health mass intervention, even more than effectiveness. “It was NEVER appropriate to attempt to “end the pandemic” with a novel technology vaccine.”
12 The four gene-based “vaccines” are toxic. The basic rules of selecting vaccine candidates are: 1) the agent has no inherent biological action (non-toxic); 2) the agent should be the genetically most stable part of the virus; 3) the agent should be most different from human proteins. Spike protein as the vaccine does not fit any of the above criteria.
-- Dr. Michael Yeadon
Snake oil. Virtually every single adult in Portugal has taken at least two doses of this “miracle cure” COVID vaccine, with the vast majority “boosted” as well. Yet this month, the most vaxxed country in Europe has consistently reported its worst outcomes.
-- Jordan Schachtel
Portugal EU country highest vaccination rate; today has the most new Covid-19 cases; with most new daily deaths per million inhabitants; the COVID injection did not work, never worked, killing people.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
The cure was vastly worse than the disease. It feels like ... despair: the continued psychological despair that comes with knowing that your government hit the panic button and ever since has lied to you at every turn, caused massive chaos and destruction amongst your community and family at large, turned your friends and relatives against one another, made your workplace into a Maoist, health authoritarian hellscape, caused your best friend to lose his job, but perhaps worst of all put our youngest citizens out to pasture and destroyed many young prospects.
If we don’t keep speaking out about the horrors that the “public health” mafia, liberal elite, and mainstream scientific narrative has wrought
upon us, we will continue down a path toward tyranny of a tiny coterie of “experts” who have perhaps intentionally led us into a miasma of destroyed human lives and societies.
-- Seth Smith
This study provides strong evidence of an increased risk of myocarditis and of pericarditis in the week following vaccination against Covid-19 with mRNA vaccines in both males and females.
-- Stéphane Le Vu, Marion Bertrand, Marie-Joelle Jabagi, Jérémie Botton, Jérôme Drouin, Bérangère Baricault, Alain Weill, Rosemary Dray-Spira & Mahmoud Zureik
By polarizing the issue, by making it a question of coercion, they’ve taken a group of people and lock them down as being opposed to vaccines because they don’t want to be forced. I think that’s a tragic error.
-- Dr. Richard Schabas, former Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario
Politicians have been all-too-happy to embrace the rhetorical dodge of “following the science”. By pinning the responsibility for their decisions on “the science”, they avoid having to explain the true reasoning, which might open them up to criticism and debate. It is easier to present a policy as the only option, resulting from the unassailable authority of science instead of the sum of numerous subjective considerations, each one a new opening for attack.
“Follow the science” is a slogan, not a strategy.
-- Jean-Paul Soucy
For those who retained any critical thinking skills, people who got vaxxed must be feeling pretty stupid by now.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Mystery heart attacks, mystery strokes, mystery cardiac arrest in children, mystery teens dying “suddenly” and “unexpectedly” in their sleep, mystery athletes dropping dead playing high school football, mystery facial paralysis, mystery children with hepatitis, it’s all a mystery.
-- Dr. James Olsson
Two years ago, we uncritically accepted unreliable mathematical models that predicted this kind of microbiological apocalypse. The world panicked and embraced the whole series of draconian measures of dubious effectiveness and enormous, enormous cost. We did all this without having any clear idea of why we were doing it.
We’ve used fear as an agent of public policy, which is totally anathema to good risk communication, totally anathema to the principles of public health. Now, we’re at a situation where we’ve got these enormous sunk costs, sunk costs of reputation, of politics, that make it so hard to change, so hard for many people to have to admit that what they did was wrong, was misguided, led us essentially nowhere.
-- Dr. Richard Schabas, former Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario
COVID masks never ever worked, harmed populations, I published massive reviews; masks are pure utter garbage and junk.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
It is a 'pandemic of the VACCINATED', we told you this! Geert Vanden Bosche said this, Mike Yeadon said this, I, Dr. Paul Alexander said this.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
New South Wales data are statistically analysed to assess whether the experimental COVID-19 injections have been effective as vaccines in reducing infection, severe disease, and death in the NSW epidemic. The NSW data show that the experimental COVID-19 injections did not function as vaccines, because they did not decrease, but increase, infection, severe disease and death. Therefore, COVID-19 vaccination mandates cannot be reasonably enforced with the experimental COVID-19 injections which do not function as effective vaccines.
-- Wilson Sy
What the hell have they done? How were they allowed to inject this stuff into pregnant women when they didn’t know the long term safety data?
We [are] now seeing unprecedented declines in births and increases in deaths following mass population-wide injection with this experimental agent being reported from around the world.
And yet, they still want to push on and inject this stuff into babies - even though the evidence now demonstrates those injected more likely to contract Covid?
We are really looking at the possibility of the greatest disaster in human history.
-- Craig Kelly
There are now a thousand papers published on the spike protein and the vaccines. A thousand that deal with vaccine injuries and they’re well characterized. And the FDA agrees: the vaccines cause blood clots. The vaccines cause heart damage. The vaccines cause neurologic damage. They also cause well-characterized immunologic and hematologic system damage.
This is in the peer reviewed literature. This is not equivocal. This is not a subject of controversy or debate. It's in our literature.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
The farce is becoming apparent, even if the media isn't letting that be known.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
Every Western Nation jumped all over the opportunity to force unethical, unsubstantiated, and likely unlawful mandates upon entire societies. They re-established apartheid under the guise of health. As politicos scream for more power of control over people based on “science”, we have collectively asked again and again, what “science” exactly is being used by the current political establishment like a holy weapon? They seem utterly oblivious or willfully ignorant in their brainwashed frenzy. We have to ask, what does the body count have to be before we stop?
-- editorial on yournews
It was all a lie! A scam, you will come to learn the last 2.5 years of your life, our lives were taken away for no sound reason, a lie, a fraud of COVID response, lockdown lunacy, the fraud injections. The lockdowns, school closures, business closures, mask mandates, the PCR test, asymptomatic spread, equal risk, no early treatment, the COVID gene injection; all, all were lies! Did not need happen!
The tragedy is that they have taken a non-issue with COVID and now with these fake ineffective, unsafe, non-neutralizing vaccines, are driving the virus into more infectious and potentially lethal variants, making this now a potentially catastrophic situation.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
We are all free to believe whatever we wish. What we are not free to do is compel others to believe the same thing, to silence those who disagree with us or to force others to deny reality.
-- Maya Forstater
The social illness I speak of was not Covid per se, but our response to it. It [Covid] wasn’t nothing, but the response was far out of proportion to the severity. I will call the illness pandemania — a social, psychological, and political derangement that caused much more harm than the disease itself, and continues to do so. There is a profound asymmetry between the two sides. One side experienced ostracism, censorship, cancellation, loss of jobs, loss of licenses, and exclusion from public spaces, while the other did not. As anyone in an abusive relationship can confirm, the perpetrator’s apology is no guarantee that the abuse won’t happen again.
-- Charles Eisenstein
We never heard of 'fact checkers' on social media until people started posting truth.
-- Derek Sloan
A society that punishes people who tell the truth, and rewards those who lie, is not sustainable in the long term.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Stop acting like COVID is far worse that a lot of other things.
-- Chris Bassitt
There is no such thing as a 'breakthrough case'. Viruses always mutate. It's just a failed product.
There is no such thing as unvaccinated. The proper term is: normal people just living their life.
There is no such thing as a 'booster'. It's just another dose of a failed product.
-- pseudonym Utobian
Half of society: official sources and the government haven't told me that the official sources and the government are corrupt, so I don't believe you.
-- Daniel Alexander
When scientific disputes arise, the ultimate arbiter is not expert authority or common sense but experimental evidence, guided by theory.
-- Tom Siegfried
Can you imagine: first people were being forced to get a vaccination, to only then find out that it might actually be the dumbest thing they ever did.
-- Christine Anderson, Member of European Parliament
Canada having a hard time declaring the mass mandated program a failure. No reductions in hospitalizations and deaths. Overall rates down given milder strains, but cases and hospitalizations embarrassingly doubled, tripled - suggesting no protection.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
The evidence globally is that compulsory masks mandates are at best useless and may even be counterproductive.
Likewise, the data is now clear that those that are vaccine-free are less likely to have Covid and less likely to transit it to others.
If anything, the data is now clear that the vaccine-free are less of a risk of having Covid than those injected multiple times.
-- Craig Kelly
[Injection maker] knew ... that their experimental genetic agent had caused ... injuries and ... deaths.
The product should have been immediately pulled from the market. But they continued to lie, continuing to claim 'safe & effective'.
This is nothing other than criminal fraud. Millions around the world relied upon [injection maker's] representation of 'safe & effective' to line up to be injected - now many are injured and dead. [Injection maker's] fraud was aided and abetted by the politicians and the media.
Those that hid this data and failed to act when they knew, belong in orange jump suits behind bars.
-- Craig Kelly
At the time I imagined the fact that the mRNA shots were failing so fast would lead the White House and public health authorities to reconsider their plans to press them on the world. And maybe start to investigate what was going wrong with this rushed and barely tested biotechnology. Silly me! Instead, the vaccinators went the other way. They doubled down.
-- Alex Berenson
Governments and media outlets dropped their efforts to persuade unvaccinated people to take the shots voluntarily. Instead they began a coordinated worldwide effort to demonize the unvaccinated and press or flat-out force them to take the shots. The hatred - no other word will do, really - that underlay this effort cannot be ignored. Nor can its importance. Last year’s efforts at vaccine coercion were the most serious effort to discriminate legally in the United States since the end of legal racial segregation in the South, and it marked a stunning reversal of two generations of efforts to expand civil rights in the United States and Europe.
-- Alex Berenson
It never made sense for such a high survival rate disease as to why it went from offering, to bribery, to threats to get an ineffective jab … and it still doesn’t.
-- Joe Cosentino
'The Science' is not an amorphous, godlike truth, unlike what we've all been taught to believe. Being pro-science means looking at data objectively. Anyone telling you to 'trust' is probably a bad actor.
-- site: Commie Gibberish of the Day
The shots are ostensibly to prevent severe disease, which is exactly what natural immunity does.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
So much basic scientific data and so many best practices and ethical standards in public health were abandoned during the Covid pandemic, it would be difficult to list them all.
I want to know why real science got thrown out as misinformation, propaganda turned into absolute truth, the free press morphed into a government mouthpiece, and supposedly liberal and scientific institutions abandoned ethical standards and critical though to impose zero-evidence, zero-Covid authoritarian lockdowns and mandates.
The toxic confluence of panic, politics and propaganda worked like an anti-truth potion to preclude even the possibility that someone would think, let alone publicize, anything suggestion it wasn't as bad as everyone said it was.
-- Debbie Lerman
These so-called "experts" ... previously claimed the experimental injections were "effective" - now that the evidence is, and they can no longer hide the fact that they have deceived the public - they are saying the injections are "not enough". With the level of dishonesty and malfeasance they have been involved in, they'd rather see people hospitalised and die than admit they were hopelessly wrong.
-- Craig Kelly
I know all sane rational people want to believe that this is over, but there's a whole army of cult Covidians, and a phalanx of control freak technocrats,
who are waiting for autumn in feverish anticipation at the prospect of bringing it all back.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Now it is clear that there is ZERO benefit of these vaccines and ONLY risk.
-- Dr. Lynn Flynn
The ones who are getting infected again and again and again … or have chronic infections, are the ones that are highly jabbed. That’s what’s going on; it’s called immune imprinting. And what the government has bought [more injections], is the perfect vaccine combination to cause this to get even worse.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
I am not being hyperbolic when I say that I am beginning to think that medical professionals and members of government are going to need to start going to jail for what they have done.
-- David Freiheit
Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?
-- some unattributed nurse in Ontario
Since these injections do not prevent infection or transmission, there's no PUBLIC HEALTH argument for forcing people to accept them.
Assume for a moment [American health person] is telling the truth about what these products do do: reduce the severity of disease, leading to reduced hospitalisation & death.
Good for you, if you decide to get jabbed. But it does not make you safer to be around.
At very most, the only argument the authorities can make is it reduces your already low chances of severe illness. So take them if you want.
Makes absolutely no difference to me if you're "vaccinated", and it would make absolutely no difference to you if I'm injected or not injected.
This is not a subtle point, it's completely fundamental.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
To state that masking is a 'tried and tested measure' is pure propaganda and indoctrination. The evidence is strongly against the efficacy of masking.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
COVID infections and cases ... we see it's rising; why? It is the COVID vaccine, stupid, NOT virus. It is the vaccine that is causing this rise. The non-neutralizing vaccinal antibodies are placing sub-optimal population immune pressure (due to mass vaccination across all age-groups) on the spike antigen and driving infectious variants.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
The Insufferable Arrogance of the Constantly Wrong. The media, and the people who work in and around it, the Blue Checks of Twitter, have upped the ante over the past few years regarding how far they are willing to go to enforce various preferred narratives. You will find absolutely hysterical narrative pushing up front followed by retractions, corrections, and outright denials as reality became undeniable.
In the meanwhile, our civilization was ripped apart, our citizens were gaslit and impoverished, and in countries across the Western world, innocent people were removed from polite society, branded as lepers, and fired from their jobs.
Why? Because there is one story that just won't die and for which no corrections have been issued — the shibboleth that vaccination can prevent infection, transmission, and help "end" COVID.
The examples are legion. Blue Checks, Medical Blue Checks, Times Columnists, Radio Jocks, Presidents, and Prime Ministers have all espoused misinformation and/or hate speech regarding vaccination status. But they are all given intellectual cover by the official reporting of the fourth estate. Even in the face of all the evidence that there is no epidemiological basis for discrimination, our intellectual betters in the legacy media press onward the canard.
-- Clayton Fox
Why are we even doing clinical trials if when you get a negative result showing it has no benefit, they're approving it anyway? You're making a mockery of the process. This is what people in the [US] agencies are very frustrated about. This is why they're leaving.
-- Dr. Marty Makary
My freedom doesn't end where your neurosis begins.
-- Dr. Simon
How bad does it have to get before these incompetent fools admit they were wrong, and follow the science and the evidence...? Would they rather people die than admit they were wrong?
-- Craig Kelly
Shame on those superstitious Covid cultists that are demanding children wear masks in schools.
-- Craig Kelly
This vaccine is extremely dangerous, is not safe and effective and is potentially fatal. The evidence doesn’t support its use in children, in babies, in pregnant women and in anybody. It is a new technology that has not even sufficiently passed the animal studies on safety.
-- Dr. Tess Lawrie
Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized.
-- Vinay Prased, Jeffrey Flier
The pandemic fiasco will be used to discredit science, but the problem was a lack of scientific thinking. True enlightened science with open minds and open discourse was replaced by dogmatic "follow the science" that is the very opposite of science.
-- Jay Bhattacharya
It's been nearly 3 yrs since this scamdemic started. Still trying to punish unjabbed. How's that going ... more jabbed in hospital and dying.
-- some commenter
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
-- James Madison
The highly inoculated are the ones at most risk for clinical COVID, hospitalization and death with these escape mutant variants, and they are the ones breeding the next round of escape mutants.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
No, mRNA Covid vaccines do not offer long-term protection from serious illness. An official government report from the Netherlands earlier this month has the truth. Data from the Dutch government show the opposite - after seven months they substantially RAISE the risk of hospitalization and intensive care. Negative vaccine effectiveness, it’s a thing. A very bad thing.
mRNA vaccine advocates have one final defense against the failure of their billion-person experiment. "Okay, the shots won’t stop you from getting Covid. Or spreading it. Or having symptoms. But they will stop you from getting very sick, and that protection lasts long after they stop working against infection."
Only it doesn’t.
The results could not be clearer, or grimmer.
The mRNA vaccines fail within a few months and then begin to raise the risk of serious outcomes.
-- Alex Berenson
It is bazarro that anyone can advocate masks outside the context of sarcasm.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
It’s not a "vaccine". It doesn't prevent contracting or transmitting the virus. If everyone who got the chickenpox vaccine still got chickenpox, no one would call it "effective". And they certainly would not predicate policy, let alone civil rights, on submitting to an ineffective medical procedure. The only thing left to determine now is whether or not it is in fact safe. Oh I've done the research. And the jury is out on whether or not it prevents "serious illness". What it does do is cause myocarditis in 1 in 5000 healthy young people.
-- David Freiheit
Analysis of official NSW Health data now shows we have a pandemic of the Quadruple vaxed. Those that have lined up to be jabbed 4 times in NSW (New South Wales) have the highest rates of Covid hospitalisations and ICU admissions. In a sane world, this madness would end tomorrow.
-- Craig Kelly
Hysteria about any and all vaccine criticism ... has reached a fever pitch during the pandemic. In the current social and political environment, you can disparage and heap scorn on products that go through the FDA approval process, if they are called pharmaceuticals or devices, but if you dare critique a vaccine you're done - good night, and good luck.
Common standards of scientific discourse - data transparency, questioning of efficacy and safety or side effects - simply don't apply to products if they are called vaccines. Because vaccines are magic.
-- Paul D. Thacker
All risk, no reward, and the added bonus of 13 times the likelihood of getting Covid. It gets old. We share what we are seeing, yet people line up, roll up their sleeves and keep getting them, and now their kids too! The media has everyone brainwashed!
-- Dr. Lynn Flynn
Given that health authorities now agree the shots do not stop infection ... the risk-benefit profile is absurd. Any other therapeutic would already have been pulled from the market or had its use severely restricted.
At a minimum the mRNA shots should be given a black-box warning and their use restricted to people over 70 and those with severe comorbidities. And a prescription should be required, just as it is for any potentially risky therapeutic with a limited duration of effectiveness.
Please don't compare these to the flu shot. At this point they are even LESS effective and far more dangerous. And as they have not a prayer of inducing herd immunity their risks and benefits should be managed individually, ie by prescription.
-- Alex Berenson
Masks are hazardous and don't work. This has been known for decades.
They claimed that masks don't work and are potentialy harmful until 2020 and then claimed the exact opposite since March 2020 to gaslight and deceive the general public.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Among people around the age of 80, who've been double vaccinated, the per capita rate of medical incidences, including hospitalizations or death, is nearly twice as high as the rate of serious incidents for the unvaccinated. This is 180 days after vaccination. What is that, and why is no one interested? … Also showing negative vaccine efficacy for all ages after 8 months. This is … a profound indictment - maybe the greatest indictment in our lifetimes - of our leaders. Their recklessness, their pigheadedness, their dishonesty.
-- Tucker Carlson
No more Big Bird videos saying it's safe and effective. No more Elmo videos saying it's safe and effective. No more CDC directors and FDA directors appearing on TV for children saying it's safe and effective. No more saying it's a vaccine, when it ain't.
The third goal is to have a meaningful, robust evidentiary hearing, with the ultimate objective being to stop the FDA from lying to the world, and ideally stop the FDA from authorizing and approving drugs that haven't met their own methods and mechanisms for doing so.
-- Robert Barnes
The canary in the mineshaft is telling us that children are dying in the first six months after shots. The numbers don't lie. One group is 82 times more likely to die than the other, that's the bad group to be in.
-- Dr. Chris Shoemaker
Sasha Latypova ... looked procedurally at the dossiers filed by [US drug company] and [US drug company] in relation to their alleged covid19 vaccines. By procedural, she means she looked at whether or not they'd completed all the studies reasonably required. She didn't assess the actual findings, something I'm more qualified to do. She didn't need to, because (in her words) they avoided discovering adverse findings by the simple method of not conducting the studies.
You could drive a tank through the gaps in these dossiers. Not only are there large numbers of essential, required studies MISSING, but the majority of those conducted (in the case of the [US drug company] product) didn't even use the clinical material. In other words, many studies weren't even attempted, and very few studies even examined the final product. These are by far the worst, criminally negligent dossiers I've ever seen, for any product, filed with any regulator.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
Our institutions have been so thoroughly corrupted and our values so comprehensively inverted that the term 'Public Health' now elicits in many people feelings of foreboding and dread.
-- pseudonym Morgoth
To whom this may concern:
Among all the vaccines have known in my life (diphtheria, tetanus, measles, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis, meningitis and tuberculosis as well as flu and pneumonia vaccines), I have never seen a vaccine that forced me to wear a mask and maintain my social distance, even when fully vaccinated. I had never heard of a vaccine that spreads the virus even after vaccination. I had never heard of rewards, discounts, and incentives to get vaccinated. I never saw discrimination for those who didn't accept vaccination, no one would try to make you feel like a bad person. I have never seen a vaccine that threatens the relationship between family, colleagues and friends. I have never seen a vaccine used to threaten livelihoods, work or school, one that would allow a 12-year-old to override parental consent. Including all the vaccines I listed above, I have never seen a vaccine like this one, which discriminates, divides and judges society. It's a powerful vaccine. It does all these things except IMMUNIZE! If, fully vaccinated, we still need a booster dose, still need to get a negative test, still need to wear a mask and still wind up in the hospital, it is time for us to admit that we've been completely deceived. Thank you for your time, Christine
-- full attribution and veracity unknown
BEWARE OF THE BOOSTED. Remember when the disgraced former NSW Premier ... told everyone I don't want to be near any unvaccinated person. This shameful piece of superstitious, unscientific hate-speech, that divided families will see [her] condemned by history - for at the time there was zero evidence that the vaccine-free were more likely to spread Covid than those that had lined up to be injected. However now the evidence shows the exact opposite - it is the boosted that pose a greater risk of not only having Covid, but also spreading it.
-- Craig Kelly
Loss of lifetime. Hypertension -> 5 years. Diabetes -> 6 years. Obesity -> 10 years. Covid-19 -> 0 years.
This says it all. This respiratory virus doesn't reduce one's lifetime. Instead the measures that were implemented to reduce the spread of Covid had a contrary effect.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
All risk, no reward, and the added bonus of 13 times the likelihood of getting Covid. It gets old. We share what we are seeing, yet people line up, roll up their sleeves and keep getting them, and now their kids too! The media has everyone brainwashed!
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
CDC data. Lockdowns did nothing. All harm, no benefit.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Repeated shots ... they too fail, and each additional shot appears to do less and fail more quickly. Worst of all, because the shots cause recipients to produce antibodies to the original coronavirus rather than [current strain's] mutated spike, vaccinated people now have a higher risk of ... infection - which means they have a higher risk of hospitalization or death.
Buckle up.
-- Alex Berenson
They’ve created a generation of hypochondriac cult members. You’ve still got weirdos out there holding their breath while they adjust it, literally frightened of breathing without their face nappy. I still see people wearing masks outside in boiling hot summer temperatures. They’re like Japanese hold-outs still fighting the war years later.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
One of the basic tenets of modern medicine is the right to informed consent, but all that seemed to go out the window as COVID-19 took hold around the world and vaccine companies saw huge opportunities to profit.
It's now safe to say the disease has been completely exploited, and its effects can be felt in nearly every aspect of daily life, whether you have personally contracted the virus or not. There's been widespread deception by governments, public health officers, social media platforms and the mass media, and people have lost freedoms at every turn for not complying with masking and vaccine mandates or simply voicing their opinions about the situation.
-- site Natural News
The media are flooding us with health-related information 24/7. But none of it actually addresses our natural immune system. Instead of receiving advice on how to improve our physical and mental health, we're witnessing a never-ending vaccine infomercial based on fear.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
The reality of mRNA jab failure is deeply unpleasant for governments and health bureaucrats.
They have spent the last 18 months touting and sometimes mandating these shots, with the active assistance of legacy and social media outlets. In the last couple of months, as the failure has become increasingly apparent, they have taken steps to cushion the blow:
Pushing boosters, which temporarily hide the problem - at a long-term cost that remains unclear;
Clamping down on data about hospitalizations and deaths among vaccinated people they once readily provided.
-- Alex Berenson
Wherever Covid goes next - and at this point we don't yet know - the mRNA shots will play no role in ending it. They are part of the problem, not the solution.
-- Alex Berenson
Medical consent must be free – not coerced – in order to be valid. Any discrimination against the unvaccinated is economic or social opportunity coercion, precluding the possibility of valid medical consent. The right to free, uncoerced medical consent is not negotiable, under any circumstances, because without it we have no rights at all; every other right can be subverted by medical coercion. Crucially, by accepting any mandated medical treatment we would be acquiescing to the taking away of the right to free medical consent not just from ourselves but from our children and from future generations, and we do not have the right to do this. Acquiescence to medical coercion is always unethical, even if the mandated intervention were a placebo.
-- Michael Kowalik
Vaccines are known to occasionally cause deaths of healthy people. When an employee is required to receive vaccination as a condition of employment, that employee is economically coerced to participate in an activity where some percentage of employees are expected to die ‘in the course of employment’ as a direct result of the mandated activity. This goes against the fundamental principles of medical ethics and workplace safety. It may be objected that infectious pathogens also kill people, but these two categories of deaths are not ethically equivalent. Infection with a pathogen for which there exists a vaccine is not mandated, whereas deaths resulting from mandatory vaccination are mandated deaths, a legalised killing of some people for the prospective benefit of the majority. Critically, any discrimination against the unvaccinated (or a privileged treatment of the vaccinated) amounts to a violation of the right to life, because a small percentage of the targeted population are expected to die as a result of this coercive treatment. By refusing to accept mandated vaccines we take an ethical stance in defence of the right to life.
-- Michael Kowalik
Apart from the fact that social and economic opportunity coercion removes our free choice in this matter, being unvaccinated is fundamentally not a choice; we were born this way. The premise of being 'unvaccinated by choice' is as absurd as 'having two hands by choice'. The right to preserve our innate characteristics without being discriminated against is paramount.
-- Michael Kowalik
I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines.
-- Dr. Deb Birx
A distinctly unhelpful rhetorical device is insisting that some important public debate is over, that your side has won and you don’t even have to say why any more. It's unhelpful when news outlets and others simply assert ... without bothering to present data or arguments.
-- Dr. John Robson
[Two US health authorities] lied to the [US] President. They lied to the world. They knew the Covid injections would not stop the spread.
And our Health Bureaucrats parroted the lies as did the media - all the while those that dared to question their lies were accused of 'spreading misinformation', ridiculed, blacklisted, defamed and censored. And I think of all the people I've met injured and maimed because of their lies, the businesses and lives destroyed by their lies, the families divided and broken, and parents that lost children because of their lies.
-- Craig Kelly
Never was it a pandemic of the UNVACCINATED; CDC & NIH & WHO LIED by placing infections, hospitalizations, deaths up to 14-15 days post jab, into unvaxx bin. Now we have clear indications that it is pandemic of the vaccinated and specifically the BOOSTED.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
Claims like 'trust the science' are actually displays of faith rather than confidence in the scientific method. The scientific method requires a hypothesis and rigorous testing. Science is not trusted, it is tested.
-- Leslyn Lewis
This vaccine campaign will go down as the biggest scandal in medical history. Moreover, it will be known as the biggest crime ever committed on humanity.
-- Christine Anderson, Member of European Parliament
I think there are multiple reasons why some people are still wearing face masks. For a lot of people it's a symptom of a disease, and the disease is fear. And that fear is not from any Chinese lab, but it was cooked up by our own government. Then there are those for whom I think the mask is a badge of some sort of imagined superiority. There were those who swallowed hook, line, and sinker that wearing a mask was a good thing to do. 'GOOD THING' in block capitals. And having been seen to be doing 'the good thing', that proportion of the population won't let that drop. For me the masks were always pointless
at best; harmful to health and well-being at worst. They say it's easier to fool someone than to persuade the same person to accept that they've been fooled. If you bought into the the mask wearing as being something that that had a function, to admit to yourself and to everyone else that it never did ...
-- Neil Oliver
It was inevitable ... that somebody would decide to sound the charge and bring back all of the all of the theater. It has for governments - especially governments with authoritarian fantasies - Covid has been the gift that keeps on giving. I never felt they were likely to give it up lightly. It was always predictable that they would try and retain it. Masks were always the most straightforward and the most obvious sign that could be demanded from people to
show whether or not they were complying. Which team they were on. Are you on 'team good people' who wear masks or on 'team naughty people' who don't.
-- Neil Oliver
If the authorities ever genuinely thought that the masks were about health, then that was for a very brief period. And I'm not sure they ever did in their hearts believe that masks had an impact from a health point of view, ever since that point. It has always and only been about control. It was about muzzling people, isolating people, and splitting people into polarized camps, because the last thing that any authoritarian-minded government wants is a confident, educated, independent population able to make its own decisions and go about its business. And fear is the key; fear has always been the key.
-- Neil Oliver
Progress is a wonderful thing, but it’s only possible with an attitude of open-mindedness that challenges the status quo. Doctors and innovators should be incentivized to pursue and explore new and different approaches. Instead, we are being forced to adopt a group think or risk suffering the wrath of the establishment, or worse, loss of livelihood.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
To be sure, demonstrably false "misinformation" can be dangerous, and a topic worthy of discussion. But with overwhelming evidence to support the statements in question, advocating different courses of action toward COVID-19 is far from misinformation. In fact, the suggestion from the White House that the vaccine lessened [America president’s] symptoms more closely meets the standard for misinformation since it is an impossible standard to prove.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
Have you ever heard of anything like this in your life? This is a tsunami. This is a plague. This is a REAL pandemic. These are all relatively young Americans either suddenly dead, or very ill with the two most common side effects of the Covid vaccine (heart attacks and strokes).
Everything I have warned about on my national radio show since the first day of the vaccine has (sadly) happened. The chickens have come home to roost. The Covid vaccine is dangerous and deadly. It is the biggest disaster and failure in the history of healthcare. It is a nonstop death and injury machine.
-- Wayne Root
Our COVID response was a miserable failure largely because health agencies were not transparent.
-- Ron Johnson, US Senator
The failure of the mRNA shots, after the hype that surrounded them when they were introduced in 2020, is deeply disappointing. The development of new medicines cannot be rushed, as much as we might hope they might. Regulators and ethical scientists must insist on properly designed and run clinical trials before approving any new drug or vaccine.
But the failure of the vaccines is actually less corrosive at this point than the grim refusal by public health authorities, politicians, and the media to admit that failure.
-- Alex Berenson
The problem is this: the relentless denial of an obvious truth from the highest levels of media and government is gasoline for the fire of conspiracy theorists. If they'll lie about the vaccines when everyone can see the vaccines don't work, what else will they lie about? And why did they lie in the first place?
Well, they lied because they wanted Covid to end so badly that they ignored all the obvious problems in the clinical trials. As for what else they'll lie about? I don't know.
Anyway, it would be really nice if the people in charge would admit the truth, the vaccines didn't work as promised.
-- Alex Berenson
Perhaps the most indefensible 'intervention' during the pandemic, school masking has confusingly become the most prominent reoccurring mandate across the country. This is despite the overwhelming amount of data and evidence that's accumulated over the past several years that school masking is completely ineffective. There is simply no justification for continuing to mandate masks in schools. Once again, [Florida governor] has shown that he is head and shoulders above most politicians, correctly realizing that banning school masking is the only way to ensure that kids aren't forced to placate delusional adults.
-- Ian Miller
Blunder for all time to indiscriminately blanket the population with an obsolete Spike antigen from the [virus]. Made it easy for the virus to mutate and easily infect and spread among those who where duped or forced into taking the mandated genetic products.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
From the earliest days of the pandemic, something deep inside me – in my soul, if you will – recoiled from the political and public response to the virus. Nothing about it felt right or strong or true. This was not just an epidemiological crisis, but a societal one, so why were we listening exclusively to some select epidemiologists? Where were the mental health experts? The child development specialists? The historians? The economists? And why were our political leaders encouraging fear rather than calm?
-- Gabrielle Bauer
To everyone who dumped on me for questioning the shutdown of civilization and calling out the damage it inflicted on the young and the poor: you can take your shaming, your scientific posturing, your insufferable moralizing, and stuff it. Every day, new research knocks more air out of your smug pronouncements.
-- Gabrielle Bauer
[There are] dangers [in] turning over public policy and public health recommendations to people who have had their careers exclusively focused on infectious disease. Public health is a balance.
-- Dr. Stefanos Kales
About the intentional suppression of early treatment in order to railroad the mass mandated products on global populations. This plan caused untold suffering and death. History will judge.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It really doesn't bother people that we're socializing little kids to view each other like Schrodinger's diseasebags first and human beings second.
-- Geneve Campbell
During the COVID era, I have learned that a society organized around the avoidance of a single respiratory virus does not care much for what harm it inflicts on the long-term development of children.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
These government health bureaucrats are just pathological liars. They weren't just wrong or mistaken or confused. They intentionally lied about everything; the effectiveness of the vaccine, masks, lockdowns, [drug], demonising early treatment with [drug] and [drug] - everything. And all their lies ensured Big Pharma enjoyed a multi-billion pay day, while inflicting untold misery and death. They were aided and abetted by the sold-out media, and while they lied intentionally and incessantly, they publicly defamed anyone that dared questioned their lies - accusing the truth tellers as spreading misinformation. For the immeasurable harm they caused and the lives they have destroyed, these liars that pushed the toxic experimental Covid vaccines, they all [should be] dressed in orange jump suits and locked up behind bars for the rest of their years.
-- Craig Kelly
No one, under any circumstances, may receive any pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal for either taking or not taking any medicine or injection.
-- The Nuremberg Code
When our [US] CDC director came out and said ... they don't stop transmission of the virus; you transmit it the same. When [Prime Minister] in the UK came out and said the vaccines don't stop anybody from getting COVID or transmitting it. When public officials uttered these conclusions, which were correct ... at that point in time, it didn't matter what one could say ... there was absolutely no scientific support for ever having a large population be encouraged to take these products, let alone being mandated to do so.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Anecdotal evidence mirrored the obvious, and biologically unsurprising, statistical trend, which the media conveniently ignored. The public also lost sight of Covid’s demographically clear risk profile.
Yet, for me and others, the hardest part of the past 28 months has been being surrounded by so many people so deeply out of touch with reality.
I saw all of the Pandemanium dogma as lies. Time has proven me right.
-- Mark Oshinskie
Reported case fatality rates, like the official … rate from the World Health Organization, cause horror - and are meaningless.
-- Prof. John Ioannidis
Masking mandates lack empirical evidence to back their effectiveness, are unenforceable, polarizing, and take a huge toll on the … children.
-- Kathryn Barger, LA County Board of Supervisors
Shame on all of our governments and their unsound, biased, and academically sloppy 'medical experts' who exhibited a depth of cognitive dissonance to any science or evidence that misaligned with their specious edicts and policies.
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?".
-- Richard Feynman
Injecting 6 month [old] babies with an experimental mRNA substance (with zero long term safety data) that we know causes them to produce the Wuhan spike protein throughout their bodies, has to be one of the most evil acts ever perpetuated upon humanity.
-- Craig Kelly
Injecting 6 month old babies with covid shots is creating customers for life (assuming they live). We're going to raise a generation of very sick kids.
-- Dr. Chris Shaw
Regime-friendly reporters will scour the earth for every last story supporting government policies, and amplify these meagre items to the point of absurdity; at the same time, they'll do everything possible to ignore or downplay information injurious to their preferred narratives, however significant it might be.
-- internet pseudonym Eugyppius
One of the greatest mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
-- Milton Friedman
You’re right the spike protein is what’s doing it. You’ve just injected in you a roadmap that says start creating this toxic thing that’s going to attack all your organ systems. It’s going to attach itself to the endothelium of your vasculature. And there’s no off switch.
-- Dr. Kelly Victory
Politicians who supported lockdowns, and continue to support compelled vaccination despite all evidence, deserve not only to be voted out of office. They deserve to be criminally prosecuted.
-- David Freiheit
Reminder: lockdowns did absolutely nothing to stop the spread of the virus, but they bankrupted our economy and made millions physically and mentally sicker. Politicians who supported them should be kicked out.
-- Maxime Bernier
A shot that does not prevent carrying, contracting, or transmitting a virus is not a “vaccine” in any realm of reality.
-- David Freiheit
Knowing what I know today, I can definitively say I regret having gotten vaccinated. But I am proud that I stood up for the rights of those who chose not to get vaccinated, and who were ruthlessly demonized and berated for exercising their right to their bodily autonomy.
-- David Freiheit
Mask fascists are just bullies. It’s just this type of conduct that results in other brainwashed masked Covidiots abusing others in public over masks. What is it in the leftist brain that result sin them ignoring the science and evidence and following the superstition when it comes to masks?
-- Craig Kelly
More disappearing Covid vaccine data. Add [Canadian province] to the governments trying to hide the reality that the mRNA jabbed make up the vast majority of Covid hospitalizations and deaths. If at first you don’t succeed, hide the numbers.
-- Alex Berenson
So many have regretted taking it. None of us have regretted not taking it.
-- unknown attribution, on the internet
In the name of a virus, government gave you:
$3,200 of checks
$30,000 of debt
A wrecked economy
Isolation from family
Closed businesses
Shortages
High prices
A vaccine that doesn’t immunize you
Medical tyranny
Dwindling savings due to inflation
And claimed this saved you.
-- Thomas Massie
It is truly shocking how many Canadian “liberals” are in fact remorseless fascist authoritarians.
-- David Freiheit
Vaccination could itself promote infection. Repeated injections of the same antigen, whatever it is (here the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2), at levels that exceed the critical threshold, inevitably lead to a disruption of innate immunity, and to the appearance of potential autoimmune disorders. Thus, for current Covid-19 vaccines, there are at least three good scientific reasons not to give multiple vaccine injections, with the direct and harmful action of the Spike protein on the RAS and innate immunity, the repetition of these injections also disrupting host innate immunity, and the potential harmful effects of some adjuvants, including lipid nanoparticles.
-- Jean-Marc Sabatier
Canada banned Covid unvaccinated people from air travel long after it was clear both that airplanes were not a major transmission vector for Covid and that vaccines did nothing to stop transmission. Hard not to see that policy as anything other than punitive, a way to hurt people who had chosen not to be jabbed. The response to the trucker protests this winter was similarly over-the-top.
And the viciousness didn't stop with the government. As the stories make clear, employers and families ostracized anyone who spoke out or wouldn't follow the rules.
-- Alex Berenson
An interesting article ... refutes the talking point claim that COVID vaccines saved 20 million plus, which is a completely made up statistic. Not only have they done harm, it is only getting started. That evidence is unfolding daily.
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
Apologize. Pick up the phone and call everyone you fired over unethical, ineffective, unscientific vaccine mandates. Ask them to come back. Then apologize to everyone who is still at work but felt coerced.
-- Matt Strauss, MD
Vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical.
-- Dr. Martin Kulldorff
We need to consider the possibility that the panicked mass injection of the population with an experimental genetic agent, multiple times, ignoring the fact there was no long term safety data - could be the greatest and most deadly mistake in human history.
The problem with such a monumental and catastrophic error, is that the politicians and government health bureaucrats responsible (and their cheer-squads in media) who all parroted Big Pharma's 'SAFE & EFFECTIVE' will never be able to admit what they have done.
Therefore instead of pulling the Covid shots from the market, as doctors around the world are pleading, they'll just keep recommending injecting them into people, including children and babies.
-- Craig Kelly
Correlation doesn't mean causation, however in a sane world the injections should be stopped immediately until it can be definitely proved that excess deaths are not from the booster shots. But the vaxinists are a cult they'll ignore the data and keep jabbing until they are arrested.
-- Craig Kelly
Gee, I wonder what could be leading to all the excess non-Covid deaths we've suddenly seen in the last 12 months, not just in the United States but all over Western Europe and Australia too? Something definitely changed near the end of 2020, I just wish I could remember what ...
Oh well. The mystery continues!
-- Alex Berenson
Stop the silly screening protocols. There is no scientific basis for treating the hospital entrance like a militarized border crossing. Everyone knows to stay home if sick. I don't need someone to hand me a mask with salad tongs.
-- Matt Strauss, MD
The real thing with children is that they don't need it [the injection]. There doesn't need to be any discussion about it being a problem. They don't need it. So why are they pushing so hard for children to have it. It makes no sense.
-- Dr. Clare Craig
The gene-based shots and all shots are to the original variant. We're demanding and seeing problems with the shot around the world and the mandates for a protein that's extinct. The very simple question to ask people is why would you get a shot for a virus that doesn't exist?
-- Dr. Ryan Cole
I'm always mocking how overreactive everyone f**king is to covid. People [have] got to let it go.
-- Bill Maher
The ‘UNVACCINATED’ were the smart ones!
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
What we've seen is this ... groupthink approach to policy. I sought information ... saying tell us the science this is based on. Of course the science was null and void.
It's been this incredible period of fearmongering, and the fear has led to people happily sacrificing their liberty at the alter of safety.
-- Alex Antic, Australian Senator
One of the greatest misuses of science in history: make people believe that they are sick until proven healthy.
-- Shawn Stevenson
Ultimately, New Zealand's 'Zero Covid' strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
In May 2020 I spoke to a senior leader ... who had an incredibly insightful picture of what was happening ... on this Covid thing. He's an Engineer, and a manager, and of course he knows all the data, so he saw very early on like I did that ... what's happening; this is insane. But he also had all the psychology.
-- Ivor Cummins
Before Covid, scientists agreed people who did not have symptoms of respiratory viruses like influenza did not spread illness. ("The driver of respiratory outbreaks is symptomatic people, not asymptomatic carriers", Dr. Anthony Fauci famously said on January 28, 2020.)
But if asymptomatic transmission is rare, the Covid mitigation measures [America Covid response co-ordinator] favored - including mask mandates, lockdowns, and widespread testing of asymptomatic people - are impossible to justify.
-- Alex Berenson
I am devastated that so many in our family and friend groups all rushed to get the various offerings to "get their lives back!"
-- Teri Drda
Years from now, what I will remember most about the pandemic is not a virus but [their] response to it. Intolerant, contemptful, rude and savage. [They] threaten instead of persuade, mandate instead of respect, and gaslight, scapegoat, and insult [their] targets into submission. When did [they] become so publicly and unapologetically savage under the guise of well-signalled virtue?
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
By now, even COVID-19 'vaccine' fanatics surely notice that the hyped-up gene-therapy jabs are eerily dangerous and far too often deadly. Indeed, a growing list of irrefutable facts and data about the jabs offers proof that they do not prevent someone from catching or transmitting COVID-19. Likewise, there is little to no evidence that the 'vaccines' lessen the symptoms of the virus for those who become infected. Instead, along with creating more vicious strains of COVID-19, the jabs have serious side effects that are more common—and often much worse—than the virus itself. And data shows that the jabs are far less effective than natural immunity. These facts need to be repeated and shared far and wide. Simply put—the jabs are killing people.
-- Michelle Edwards
Vaccinated individuals pretty much almost completely nullified their ability to mount immune response, which might explain why so many vaccinated individuals are being reinfected. Some of the … individuals were not even able to mount any T-Cell response … long-lasting detrimental effects.
-- Dr. Mikolaj Raszek
I love seeing the mental gymnastics to justify their blind obedience.
-- pseudonym aSinisterKiid
The issue, for me, isn't about the jab anymore, my main concern is how easily most people can get programmed into treating their friends and family and others so inhumanely because the government, mainstream media, and celebrities told them to.
-- Laura Matsue
If this is not a cult I don't know what it is. Mindless zombies!
-- JustDudeChannel
Elevated biomarkers - these are substances released from damaged heart muscle. Now I was actually taken aback by these figures, these very high levels, and the implications of this. I really feel that this is something that the [UK] NHS and the [US] CDC should be taking cognizance of straightaway, with a view to changing their guidelines, I would have thought as an emergency, based on this data.
-- Dr. John Campbell
Now that the CDC in the USA have finally admitted that unvaccinated people are not more likely to catch or spread COVID (even though this is still another lie, as the data shows it’s the vaccinated more likely to catch and spread COVID) - will all those that demonised and encouraged discrimination against those that decided they’d pass on joining the global experimental now apologise?
-- Craig Kelly
Mass containment is no longer in the growth phase, and those who remain committed to viral hysteria must now ponder what they’ll do next.
-- pseudonym Eugyppius
New study confirms negative efficacy. The more you inject the more you infect. The mandates were not only a violation of human rights, they have caused MORE people to be infected. The authors of this study say the results where 'surprising'. Rubbish. Anyone not brainwashed and following the data knew the vaccines had negative efficacy over a year ago.
-- Craig Kelly
You must know that the true amount of vax-caused death and injury is actually much, much greater than the few you are currently aware of in your community. Many people are suffering quietly, and the long term is likely to be even worse G-d forbid, as we are aware of many healthy-looking people suddenly dying months later, or coming out with severe problems even a year later. The covid shots greatly increase ALL CAUSE mortality, and this is well documented.
Data from England and other countries show clearly that the all cause mortality is much HIGHER among covid vaxxed individuals.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
Even in terms of the shot saving lives “from covid”, that’s also blatantly untrue. The true data about COVID hospitalization and death of vaxxed compared to unvaxxed from England, Israel, etc (where the data has been more transparent than in the US) clearly shows the shot does NOT prevent hospitalization or death from covid, and actually increases the risks of catching covid and dying from covid.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
One of the great scandals of these vaccines, that no proper toxicity studies have been carried out.
-- Dr. Michael Palmer
Excuse my ignorance, but are any unvaccinated people getting Bell's Palsy, shingles, blood clots, myocarditis, or dying suddenly with SADS? Just curious.
-- Sonia Bowditch
As a biologist I have studied the covid 19 issue from the start with an open mind. As the last two years unfolded I found more questions than answers, found more deceit and authoritarianism, manipulation and commercial greed than I have ever seen before. Sadly, the research I have conducted brings me to the conclusion that mass psychosis is not only real but relatively easy to achieve. I have lost friends over this subject and family members often dismiss anything other than the government narrative. I am glad to be in the minority of the 3% who utilise critical thinking.
-- Thomas Ward
Those who really understand science saw through the lies and spoke out. They were vilified for it.
-- Geri Price
The COVID vaccines were a failure. They failed to prevent spread of the disease and they became an impediment to developing vaccines that would actually prevent spread. They became an excuse not to develop treatments. They have side effects that weren't disclosed.
-- Thomas Massie, US Representative
What was reported in the mainstream news as being 95% effective against infection was in fact relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction. That specific NEJM paper which underpinned the emergency use authorisation of the [drug company] vaccine actually revealed an absolute risk reduction of 0.84%.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
These Are the Riskiest Products Ever Conceived for Mass Administration.
The spike protein is what makes the coronavirus lethal.
The COVID injections code the body to make the spike protein. Therefore, the 'vaccines' are producing the lethal part of the virus.
This lethal protein is produced for an uncontrolled quantity and an uncontrolled amount of time.
When you think about that biologic ramification, that's the most risky vaccine anybody can ever come up with because it's completely uncontrolled. So in the wrong person at the wrong time, if they produce too much of it for too long of a time, it's going to be lethal.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Not only do masks not work to protect people from respiratory illnesses, they can never work. Worse, there's a 70+ year old hierarchy of controls against respiratory hazards. Masks do not even appear on this hierarchy. Not even in worst place. THEY ARE SPLASHGUARDS, NOT AIR FILTERS. They've never been used as filters. That's not what they are, or do. They prevent splashes of biological fluids from entering the mouth or nose of the wearer.
-- Dr. Mike Yeadon
Now that we know the vaccinated are more likely to spread covid than unvaccinated we should fire them from their jobs and ban them from restaurants, bars and all othe gatherings, or handcuff them in front of their children.
-- Kreuk Caribou
I do feel sorry for people who were coerced or hoodwinked into taking the jabs initially. But at this late stage in the game, anyone taking them is insanely stupid or, presumably, wants to commit slow suicide.
-- Chris Cowley
It's absolutely mind-boggling to me that we have to endure endless claims about how 'no one ever said it would prevent infection' when [Director of US NIH], the CDC director, the President, and the [injection company] CEO all said directly to the public that it did.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Unexplained excess deaths outstrip those from virus as medics call figures 'terrifying'.
-- Sarah Knapton, Science Editor, The Telegraph
Covid has caused a new psychiatric disorder, and it's not what you think; please help me name it. We need a word for this new illness, which exclusively affects members of Team Reality. It is a low- to medium-grade anxiety disorder caused by the realization that the bureaucrats and politicians who are nominally in charge do not really know what they’re doing, cannot read or understand data, and will not course correct in response to new information.
It is not a conspiratorial or paranoid, it’s not exactly being red-pilled, but rather a grinding disillusionment and realization that the people in charge (including the people writing about the people in charge) are, if not quite idiots, not nearly as smart as they think they are and everyone is going to have to fight like mad to keep things from getting worse.
-- Alex Berenson
Please stop calling people who support things like censorship, deplatforming opponents, lockdowns, mandatory face coverings, coerced injections, racial discrimination, and/or medical segregation 'liberals'. None of these things are remotely liberal. They are authoritarian.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
It's the vaccine, stupid, NOT the virus, that is causing the infectious variants!
-- Paul Alexander
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
279% SPIKE in Miscarriages
487% SPIKE in Breast Cancer
1048% SPIKE in the Nervous System
155% SPIKE in Birth Defects
350% SPIKE in Male Infertility
369% SPIKE in Testicular Cancer
2181% SPIKE in Hypertension
664% SPIKE in Malignant Neoplasms
680% SPIKE in Multiple Sclerosis
551% SPIKE in Guillain-Barre Syndrome
468% SPIKE in Pulmonary Embolism
302% SPIKE in Tachycardia
452% SPIKE in Migraines
471% SPIKE in Female Infertility
437% SPIKE in Ovarian Dysfunction
269% SPIKE in Myocardial infarction
291% SPIKE in Bell’s palsy
467% SPIKE in Pulmonary Embolism
-- (attribution might be Jason Christoff)
In a well functioning democracy with a healthy press, claims by government officials are usually taken by journalists with a healthy skepticism and something that needs to be fact checked and verified. Here in Canada, it's the opposite. North Korean territory.
-- Rupa Subramanya
It was presidents, prime ministers, politicians, chief medical advisers, the NHS, CDC, the FDA and the vast majority of the media that were spreading what it's now clear is misinformation and they're still doing it.
-- Neil Oliver
In medical school, students are taught that a good doctor treats the patient, not a lab result. During the pandemic, public health rearranged society to control a single metric - covid cases - based on a lab test. This was bad medicine on a society-wide scale.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Can all the experts who said lockdowns were essential, covid vaccines were safe, masks work and measures were necessary, go on TV to apologise as often as they were on to push the false messaging? After all, we can't allow disinformation right?
-- Emma Kenny
I still don't understand why it [has] been conveniently forgotten that in 2015 and 2018 Ontario nurses won two legal battles against mandatory mask wearing during flu season. It was proven then that masks do not work in a hospital day-to-day setting.
-- Kevin Klerks
When the vaccines were first released we were told they were 95% effective against infection. This is not true. This is based on relative risk reduction. In absolute terms, they provided 0.84 percent protection.
This statistic was the pretence under which vaccine mandates were implemented.
The latest data reveals that once infected there is no significant difference in transmission rates between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, which makes any scientific case for mandates illegitimate.
As newer and thankfully, less lethal, mutated strains became dominant, any protection against infection at the very least became less effective and likely completely ineffective.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Rather than encourage transparent debate about the true benefits and potential harms of the Covid vaccine as new evidence emerges, those that encourage more critical thinking and adding to the database of relevant knowledge are smeared. Global vaccine mandates for Covid-19 must stop until we have the full data on efficacy of all available vaccines.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Still the demonizing of those who won’t comply goes on. We were ridiculed, insulted, called cranks and conspiracy theorists. We’re still under attack for spreading alleged misinformation. Anyone paying attention, knows that when it comes to safety and efficacy, as well as the logic of lockdowns, it was presidents, prime ministers, politicians, chief medical advisors, the NHS, the CDC, the FDA, and the vast majority of the media that were spreading what’s it’s now clear was misinformation. And they’re still doing it!
Sorry is a long way short of being enough. Sorry won't cut it. It seems simple enough to me, but perhaps I should spell it out for the guilty parties. When you screw up this badly, it's time to get your coat and leave. Just finally, this late in the day, after having caused uncountable lifetimes of damage, hurt and heartbreak, find a shred of decency and take a walk!
-- Neil Oliver
But the reality is that was not grounded in data. It was not grounded in evidence. It was basically the current thing. People would put in their [social media] profile, a mask and a syringe, and that was like their identity. And it was ridiculous.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
They lied to us about the RNA shots. They said, if you take it, you will not get COVID. That is false. That is not true. And they continue to say, even now when the evidence is so overwhelming. It's just time and time again ... you've seen ideology placed over data and evidence. Then what they'll do is they will kind of move the goal post and they will constantly try to shift, because they will never admit that their ideology was incorrect.
-- Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
I represent over 17,000 physicians and medical scientists, and we came out with a clear, unequivocal press conference statement ... that these vaccines are not indicated for any population and should be withdrawn.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly.
-- Thomas Sowell
Anybody else wonder why there were so many videos of dancing nurses in 2020 when hospitals were allegedly overwhelmed but in 2022, when many are verifiably overwhelmed, we aren't getting any encore performance?
-- Paul Herbert Michaels
Not one person in [Canadian Prime Minister's] 20-strong Covid recovery group panel ... had any education in epidemiology, medicine, or public health!
-- Dan Wooton
The great lockdown scandal is about to unravel. The pseudo-scientific sheen is finally being stripped off the decision to shut down Britain.
That the culture of fear, seen in the Orwellian advertising campaign that sought to terrify the country, applied inside Government.
Lockdown was always a political decision but No 10 wanted to dress it up as “following the science”.
“The science” was, in fact, no such thing. [UK's Chief Medical Officer, and UK's Chief Scientific Advisor] began by advising ministers not to lock down, saying public events were fine, and that face masks were pointless. They were talking about herd immunity as the way out. Then they flipped entirely. But this reveals something crucial: lockdown never was backed by science. It was about models and suppositions, educated guesswork. It was driven by moods, emotion, fear – and, worst of all, politics masquerading as science. It somehow went from being a daft idea, rubbished by scientists, to a national imperative whose necessity was unquestionable scientific truth.
-- Fraser Nelson (with Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer)
We shouldn’t have empowered the scientists in the way we did. And you have to acknowledge trade-offs from the beginning. If we’d done all of that, we could be in a very different place.
-- Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
The use of fear is a well-known tactic by tyrannical governments. Michael Chrichton knew this when he said, 'social control is best managed through fear'. Social control is indeed best managed through fear, and it always works on an ignorant population.
-- pseudonym Data Trumps Consensus
What the past 3 years have taught me about "the majority" of people:
- the "majority" have no intelligence or education
- will lick boots and do whatever they are told
- have ZERO scientific knowledge
- are weak, afraid, and cowardly
- are VERY gullible
- have ZERO integrity
-- Dr. James Olsson
The vaccines have done damage to the immune system such that it makes people more likely to get COVID—over a longer term, not the short-term vaccine benefit period, but after that—more likely to get COVID infections, more likely to get other respiratory infections.
-- Dr. Harvey Risch
No-one in any position of leadership is yet talking about the worst aspects of this most coordinated and sustained criminal act in history: fabricating the statistics, preventing independent medical practice, and locking us up until their poison was ready. Turning a blind eye to vaccine death and injury, censoring professional concerns, and coercing the population to experimental injection.
The lack of safety data and the presence of early danger signals in the initial jab studies, the low mortality from SARS-CoV-2 and the absence of a basis for lockdown and other non-pharmaceutical measures were present from the inception of, quite probably, the worst iatrogenic health disaster in history.
-- pseudonym The Covid Physician
Excess deaths ... this is an international concern. And the fact that other governments around the world aren't bouncing up and down about this really trying to get to the bottom of this is surprising. We still see that there's excess mortality, to quite high orders above what would be expected - 10%, 20%. These are non-covid-related deaths, so we’re seeing an excess of non-covid-related deaths. The other thing that’s concerning is this is across all age groups.
-- Dr. John Campbell
No evidence against the “vaccination” horror, however solid and (to us) compelling it may be, can penetrate the minds that just don’t want to know what all such solid evidence so obviously means — i.e. that those great institutions claiming to respect “the science,” and to want to keep us “safe,” and lead us “back to normal,” have actually—deliberately, and systematically—denied “the science” all along; consistently discouraged effective regimens and remedies, while fiercely pushing products known to kill or cripple us. Multiple papers now suggest that COVID mRNA vaccines impair not just immunity to COVID, but immunity and immune surveillance overall. Data from multiple countries now shows that all cause mortality (deaths from everything) are higher in the vaccinated.
-- Mark Crispin Miller
Can you imagine how many less popular young people have died [from the injections] without hitting the spotlight.
-- Lefteris Demetriou
Ethics 101.
The thing is though, even if they were effective, the mandates are an ideological problem at their core. They insist on the utilitarian principle that it is okay for an individual to give up their right to choose (bodily autonomy) in sacrificing themselves for the many.
The trolley question: if a train is coming down a track that will kill 6 people, can you pull a lever to switch it onto a track that will only kill one?
The answer, after WW2, was decidedly NO, because you cannot play God, you cannot choose. Now, the question is up for debate.
Framed another way: Can you push someone onto the tracks to save the 6? Is killing ever justified?
Since we have lost our collective moral human compass, we find ourselves allowing the normalcy of playing God, or deciding the fate of others, for the "good" of the many.
But who can decide what the good of the many is? No human can. No one has the answer for the aggregate good. Only each individual can decide what is good for themselves. If you decide to not take a medicine that may save your life, that is your decision, in a truly free world.
-- Kate Wand
Death counts were the sine qua non of the Covid epidemic; to pretend they do not matter now is bizarre. (Remember when deaths counted? Those were the days...). Governments worldwide have been doing everything possible to hide data that shows how poorly the Covid shots now work against [the current straing]. But they are not going to be able to stop reporting all-cause mortality, which means we will all be able to see these trends for ourselves.
-- Alex Berenson
The jabbed telling the unjabbed to get jabbed is like sending 'Wish you were here' postcards from the Titanic.
-- unattributed from the internet
Fake pictures of people dropping in the streets in China was enough to start a global panic. Live pictures of fit young athletes dropping down dead of heart attacks after taking the vaccines is not worth talking about.
-- unattributed from the internet
'Safe and effective' are more like 'useless and dangerous'. Like Dr. Vladimir Zelenko said, 'You don't have to believe me. You just have to follow facts and science'. Real science - not the one they mention on TV all the time.
-- Dr. [unintelligible]
How many times can public health officials keep moving the goalposts before most people finally realize the kind of game they're actually playing when it comes to the COVID shot? The math is simply there, and it doesn't bode well for vax-proponents: 9 out of 10 COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths reported in Canada were among people who were considered fully vaxxed - and most of these were among triple- or quadruple-jabbed. If governments want us to be more trusting of their public health efforts, maybe they should be more transparent about what the public health data is revealing.
-- Sara Middleton
All of these backtracking statements on lockdowns from people in power would sound very different if at the time, nobody had pointed out the lunacy of what they were doing. Unfortunately for them, there were millions of us screaming it into their faces every single day. And it's not as if they can claim not to have heard us. They very much acknowledged us. They referred to us, labelled us, othered us, chastised us, sacked us, cancelled us, censored us. They all knew what we were saying.
-- Bob Moran
If you have ... a mask on in your display pic, then I frankly don't care about your opinion. On anything. I'd rather talk to a toddler. They're less predictable and more capable of individual thought.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The scientific reality is that officials cannot claim that the Covid-19 vaccines and public health measures saved more lives than they cost. The evidentiary failure of the vaccines to show a reduction in serious illness and all-cause mortality cannot be overcome by any amount of weak observational studies and wishful simulations conjured up or concocted by government officials and their roster of 'experts'.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
You better hope you don’t contract unknown cause of death because there’s a lot of people dying from it.
-- JP Sears
The swine flu vaccine campaign taught us, after 53 deaths, that it was unacceptable to take an injection electively and die. What the hell changed?
-- unattributed
We find that the regulatory imposition and enforcement of statewide shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders conclusively correlates with larger health-status-corrected, per capita, all-cause mortality by state. This result is inconsistent with the hypothesis that lockdowns saved lives.
-- John Johnson, Denis Rancourt
Emerging statistics on excess mortality rates paint an alarming picture. Far more people died in 2021, after the rollout of the COVID shots, and in 2022, than during the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020. ...Those shocking statistics ... are mirrored around the world.
But while rational people look at these figures and ask themselves what the most apparent and likely cause behind this sudden rise in deaths of working-age adults and younger people might be, mainstream media are trying to divert your attention from the elephant in the room — mass injection with experimental gene transfer technology — to anything and everything but that.
-- Dr. Joseph Mercola
Nothing says 'trust the science' like asking for the data to be hidden for 75 years.
-- unattributed
mRNA shots are the gift that keeps on giving
Physicians (not American, of course) find vaccine-generated coronavirus spike protein in skin lesions, months after vaccination.
Remember when the Centers for Disease Control told you the mRNA in Covid vaccines didn’t last long in your cells?
Remember when fact-checkers at Reuters told you the coronavirus spike protein the vaccines make you produce isn’t dangerous?
About that.
The CDC has now quietly removed its promise that your body 'breaks down and gets rid of the mRNA soon after it is finished' with initially making spike protein.
Meanwhile, scientists keep piling up evidence that the spike protein remains in the body for months, at least, and is far from benign.
-- Alex Berenson
The mRNAs have turned out to be a truly bad bet. The all-cause mortality and live birth data are the most important data we have, the only figures that are not susceptible to some form of political pressure, and they are increasingly screaming red.
-- Alex Berenson
Deep down, everyone knows exactly what’s going on. Surely people are just in denial at this point because it seems to be very clear to me and I find it hard to believe people aren’t seeing what’s happening, which is almost as alarming and terrifying as the [non-covid-excess] deaths themselves.
-- pseudonym Endless Nameless
I would not say I was a naive man 6 years ago. I was in my early 50s, and I had seen a lot of the world over the years. Some even thought I was something of a cynic, but I would have said that I was a worldly realist. Still, the last six years have shaken my confidence in the governing and academic and scientific establishments more deeply than I would have thought possible. Especially the last three years.
-- David Carpenter
Right now they are saying that we should trust mouse data and I don't think that should ever be true. I don't think you should ever ask tens of millions of people to get a vaccine based on mouse data.
-- Dr. Paul Offit
Do boosters save people from getting very sick with Covid? New data from Britain say the opposite.
The mRNA vaccine miracle just keeps getting more special. Don't blame me; the numbers come straight from the British government.
Newly mRNA boosted adults aged 40-74 are now TWICE as likely to be hospitalized for Covid as those who haven't recently been boosted, a new British government report shows.
Vaccine advocates endlessly claim that though mRNA shots fail against [current strain] infection in weeks, they still miraculously prevent Covid from becoming a serious illness that could require hospitalization. These figures, which cover hospitalizations in June, suggest otherwise.
Deaths are soaring in one of the world's most highly mRNA vaccinated areas. Deaths in the Australian state of Victoria, where 95 percent of adults have received Covid vaccines and most are boosted with mRNA shots, soared to their highest level in at least 13 years in August - far above the five-year average.
Victoria offers almost unique data: near-real-time reporting on death trends in millions of people who are heavily vaccinated but had little exposure to Covid before being jabbed.
The picture is increasingly grim.
-- Alex Berenson
Let me get this straight. In the UK, kids under 12 can't get the [injection] anymore. Whereas in New York City, kids under 12 can't go to certain schools / programs unless they get [injection]. And we are supposed to take these leaders seriously?
-- (Lion Advocacy)
Ontario covid deaths this week [early September 2022]: 74
Same week last year: 53
-- Bill Comeau
That's how you know the [injection] is working.
-- (psuedonum DPR Circulon)
If you were a bookmaker setting a market on what's to blame for the unprecedented excess mortality - 'the boosters' would be very short priced favourite.
In a sane world, with so many different remarkable correlations between the booster and surges in excess mortality - knowing that the boosters have a number of mechanisms that cause death - we'd apply the precautionary principle and STOP THE SHOTS until it was proven otherwise that they weren't to blame.
But we live at a time of mass formation psychosis - and with so many invested so heavily into the vaccines in a cult like manner, the possibility that the injections are causing all this death is just to shocking for many to even contemplate - so the shots will roll on, and so likely will the excess deaths.
-- Craig Kelly
Ethically Dr McCullough is correct. Given the remarkable correlation between the timing of the 'boosters' and excess deaths, and the fact the injections have multiple mechanisms which are known to cause death - the precautionary principle requires that we must assume that the vaccines are the cause of the excess deaths, until proven otherwise.
-- Craig Kelly
It's really disturbing that a respectable doctor has to do verbal gymnastics to avoid being silenced, while quoting directly from the CDCs own data. If this doesn't worry you... It really should.
-- Sarah Hale-Pearson
Since when has the censorship of opposing views been in the best interest of humanity?
-- Steve Kirsch
We've already been now a year watching European footballers collapse and die on fields. We're well over a thousand professional athletes in the past year, and the former average for 30 years was 29 a year. And so, how many people have to drop dead before we say, 'Gee, there's something wrong here.'?
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
Compared to the flu - it's somewhat different, and it is somewhat different, but it basically targets the elderly, like the flu does. So to freak out ...
This is all just ideology. This is not medicine. This is indoctrination. And to me the frightening thing was never the disease itself; the frightening thing was how much you could get people, so quickly, to change their way of life.
-- Bill Maher
Wearing a mask is participating in an antisocial hygiene virus cult. It’s been devastating for me to watch older colleagues, whose opinion and expertise I respect, succumb to this irrational superstition. Masks are evil because they frame everyone as a potential vector of disease, and force the healthy to act as if they were sick. They are a reminder to keep several meters distance at all times, to sanitise your hands, and to engage in all the other stupid pandemic liturgies that evaporated this summer during our very brief mask reprieve. Masks are socially corrosive, and on top of that they’re ugly, they smell terrible, they’re physically uncomfortable, and — biggest of ironies for an alleged hygiene product — their daily use and re-use is just disgusting. But none of this matters, because Science. This simply has to stop. It’s very important. Community masking is not healthy, it’s not hygienic, it’s not safe, it’s not reasonable. It’s sick. It’s profoundly sick. I’m tired being forced to perform sickness.
-- pseudonym Eugyppius
Never forget that in order to supposedly ‘save lives’, our abysmally stupid governments were arresting and giving tickets to people walking their dogs alone in parks.
-- Maxime Bernier
This is absolutely a tragedy. This is malfeasance; it is a regulatory breach. And those accountable for it — they should be called forward and brought to justice. We should never have products — ever — that are released and then actually forced on the U.S. population without having adequate safety testing in humans.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
I think the evidence is very, very strong to call for a complete suspension of this vaccine, pending an inquiry so that we can have a more honest discussion about who potentially benefits, who's going to get more harm than good, if at all.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
There is a strong scientific, ethical and moral case to be made that the current COVID vaccine administration must stop until all the raw data has been subjected to fully independent scrutiny.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
According to Shoemaker, the vaccine “is a more toxic version of the virus – more toxic, more damaging and more lethal, especially in the long-term as it damages your t-cells.” He added that the deaths connected to the COVID-19 vaccines prove that they don’t work.
They make you four times more likely to get COVID. In the last eight months, 95 percent of the people in the ICU are fully vaccinated. The vaccinated have been harmed. Their immune systems are being harmed. Stop harming your immune systems. You are only going to perpetuate the pandemic.
-- Dr. Chris Alan Shoemaker
I'm not advocating for 'safer' versions. I'm not advocating for a 'delayed schedule'. I'm not advocating for receiving the ones that are 'most needed'.
I'm an advocate for truth, and the truth is NONE of them are needed - ever. They have nothing whatsoever to do with health.
-- Danny Zeck
The data clearly showed very early on after the COVID vaccine rollout that there was no difference in terms of viral load between a vaccinated and unvaccinated person. Thus the policy was punitive and nonsensical, and not just for nurses, but for all employees subjected to it without any scientific basis.
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
There is nothing more anti-science than refusing to allow questions.
-- Tamata Jansen
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. There cannot be force, there cannot be fraud, there cannot be deceit, there cannot be duress, and there cannot be coercion.
-- Dr. Peterson Pierre
Anyone dying of [the current strain] is likely either incredibly old, incredibly sick. According to the coroner's office, most are vaccinated. It should be obvious that Covid death counting is now pure theater. Which raises a somewhat unpleasant question: if Covid is no longer killing anyone who wasn't at death's door, why is overall excess mortality so high across the heavily mRNA vaccinated countries?
-- Alex Berenson
Some people wouldn't know tyranny if it covered their faces, locked them in their homes, enacted the biggest wealth transfer in history, censored them, made them show papers, and force medicated them.
-- unattributed from the internet
Too many people are dying 'suddenly and unexpectedly' and the media is gaslighting the public by pretending it's some sort of a conspiracy to point this out.
-- Candace Owens
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Those who know the least, obey the best.
-- George Farquhar
Coercion is not consent.
-- unattributed from the internet
This inversion of reality must not go unchallenged. In truth, both the experience of countries that did NOT use the mRNAs and those that did suggests that the [brand name] and [brand name] shots did nothing to shorten the epidemic.
-- Alex Berenson
Being skeptical isn't just about being contrarian. It's about asking the right questions of ourselves and others to gain understanding. Smart people question everything. Skepticism ... critical thinking makes you smarter.
-- site: Big Think
Vax is affecting the menstrual cycle, elderly vaxxed 80% more likely to get sick than unvaxxed, vax wrecking the immune system... It just goes on and one and one ...
-- Dr. Roger Hodkinson
This isn't usual or normal! This isn't a part of conventional practice. This is far outside the norms. Until something's proven to be safe, in no way should it be mandated.
-- Dr. Peter McCollough
Do you remember the Takata airbag recall? The Takata corporation made defective airbag charges that would explode, sometimes spontaneously, and send pieces of metal shrapnel into the faces and necks of drivers. In 2014 one young lady died and a dozen more were wounded. That one death prompted the historic record recall of 65 million vehicles in the U.S. and a fine of $200 million against Takata. Over the next few years more drivers died. 17 in the US and 27 world wide.
Now look at the gene injection for COVID. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, no recall, no admission of responsibility. The deaths continue. What’s the difference?
The manufacturers have no liability for injuries and deaths from the use of their products!
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
Swine Flu Vaccine (1976) - Pulled after showing a 1 in 100,000 risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Rotavirus Vaccine (1999) - Pulled after showing a 1 in 10,000 risk of bowel obstruction.
COVID Jab (2020) - Still on the market with a serious adverse event rate between 1 in 800 and 1 in 1,000.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
Do you remember, before the internet, that it was thought that the cause of collective stupidity was the lack of access to information? Well it wasn't that.
-- site Vaccine Choice Canada
The first real evidence mRNA shots RAISE the risk of Covid hospitalization and death over time. A big Swedish study offers fragmentary but suggestive data, using data covering 9 million people ... showing mRNA jabs may increase the risk of [strain] infection after three months. ... Vaccinated people had a HIGHER risk of death or hospitalization from Covid roughly a year afte receiving their second dose.
-- Alex Berenson
[This] current report presents the case of a man ... who died three weeks after receiving his third COVID-19 vaccination. The presence of spike protein must be ascribed to vaccination rather than to viral infection. The findings corroborate previous reports of encephalitis and myocarditis caused by gene-based COVID-19 vaccines.
-- Michael Morz
Another study to remind us that our jab-first-ask-questions-later mass vaccination campaign was reckless and irresponsible.
-- Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
[Drug company] lied! Pure lies and CDC and FDA lied to us and knew the lie! The 95% relative risk reduction (RRR) used to get the EUA was actually 0.8% absolute risk reduction (ARR).
-- Dr. Paul Alexander
So how is it that mRNAs had no effect on all-cause mortality but protect against fatal COVID? Well, either they don’t really protect against COVID, or the nominal benefit is washed away by the mortality from adverse events.
-- Daniel Horowitz
The sinking ship of the mandate enthusiasts took on more water last month with the publication of a powerhouse paper by some of the world’s top bioethicists. Thank goodness it came along when it did to undercut the intoxicating public health message that the mRNA vaccines are the only way to save the human race from COVID-19. But, with all its strengths, I worry that the paper misses the larger point about why vaccine mandates are wrong. It’s still playing at the collectivist cost-benefit game, a morally flawed one with rules that normatively privilege the group over the individual and assign no absolute value to the right of self-governance.
Being vaccinated under duress or due to coercion constitutes not just a risk of harm but actual harm to one’s bodily autonomy and therefore to personhood. There’s nothing more defining of human life, and nothing so essential for making life worth living, as our capacity for rational agency, which is as valuable as life itself. Bodily autonomy — the right to governance over one’s own body — isn’t a mere 'nice-to-have;' it’s the rational expression of the capacities that make us who and what we are.
Vaccine mandates are wrong not because they fail to generate a net benefit or because the risks to vaccinated persons outweigh public health benefits (though both are true). They are wrong because they trample on the very thing the noblest version of a liberal democratic society should be trying to create. If our society is to be great, it must aspire to more than safety or, more accurately, the perception of safety.
-- Dr. Julie Ponesse
The 'Safe & Effective'(TM) mantra has hypnotized people, as has the suggestion that injecting yourself protects others.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
I'm glad for 1 thing about the past 3 years, that is there were certain people - as well as agencies and corporations - for which I had a basic sense of trust. That trust is completely gone. And I'm glad I found out how corrupt and fraudulent they are. This knowledge protects me.
-- Dr. James E. Olsson
And to pretend that you have enough information - with all the things they've been wrong about - just we don't know that much.
All the drugs they pulled off the market because they said they were safe and effective but they weren't. Now you tell me!
You don't have a monopoly on what the truth is.
-- Bill Maher
It turns out 'get vaccinated to save other people' was a farce. I think I owe a lot of people an apology. I genuinely thought I could trust the 'experts'. I'm very disappointed to have been hoodwinked by the propaganda.
-- James Smith
I am currently accepting apologies from everybody who falsely labeled me heartless, evil, anti-science, selfish, pro-Covid, grandma killer, a stupid anti-vaxxer, and worse ... and everybody who accused me of killing people over the past 2.5+ years.
Waiting.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Be honest, you didn’t trust the science. You trusted the TV.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
A [drug company] executive has admitted that they never tested vaccines on transmission. That means that Covid passports, and stop the spread ... was just guesswork at best, and lies at worst.
Throughout that time, we were censored, we were told there are some things we can’t discuss, we were told this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, you’re selfish, you could be killing people. All of that stuff - they can’t have believed it because they didn’t test it. So what remains is propaganda … the ability to manipulate and control people. Once you have people compliant, and doing what they’re told, and just believing the giddy rush of mad gush pumped out of mainstream media portals, then you don’t have awakened citizens contesting the information that they’re given.
-- Russell Brand
Because of your silence, that's how it got here. If you continue to do and say things you know do not make sense or are not right, where do you think it's going to be in five years, where do you think it's going to be in ten years. We've seen many times in history what happens what happens when people go along with things that are wrong and unethical. We need to remember it.
Have some humility that we are not so much wiser than everyone who came before us; that we're suddenly immune to all these mental and cognitive flaws, or that we're immune to groupthink - of going along with the herd. I think there's a pandemic of cowardice right now.
Be more bold and forthright and outspoken in the face of nonsense and things that are wrong.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Using the disclosed data by the Japanese government, we observed increased myocarditis mortality rate ratio in the SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated population compared with general population during three years pre-COVID-19 pandemic era.
However, not only in young adults, but also in the middle aged (40s) and in the elderly and overall vaccinated, increased risk of myocarditis death is associated with vaccination even without consideration of healthy vaccinee effect.
Dr. Sintaroo Watanabe and Dr. Rokuro Hama
The problem with being brainwashed is believing you haven’t been brainwashed.
-- unknown attribution
How many more [died suddenly]? Literally the same people who were up in arms about the elderly dying in retirement homes are silent on the young now dropping like flies.
-- Tommy Robinson
Look at who’s getting COVID in record numbers: the people who’ve already gotten the shots!
-- Dr. Simon Goddek
It seems to me that compelling evidence of people being killed by these shots - it doesn't have to be proof - would have to be investigated.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
All those in media/politics who accepted vaccine passports without a single question about ethics/effectiveness should be ashamed of themselves. Not just that, they attacked those of us who had the sense to be critical.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
-- (attributed to) Aristotle
The COVID vaccine was rushed to the market and wasn’t properly tested. It is responsible for a significant number of deaths. Time to get serious and stop pretending that it’s normal for 20 year old athletes to drop dead.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Vaccines never prevented the transmission of COVID. Allowing zealots to censor news in the name of 'science' is a danger to public health.
-- Alex Gutentag
Another new study - yes, a SECOND one - says the '[mutation]-specific' mRNA Covid boosters are worthless. For the second time in a week, top scientists have reported that '[mutation] specific' Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick.
-- Alex Berenson
The idea that all vaccines are safe and effective is like saying all prescription drugs are safe and effective. Every one needs to be considered separately.
-- B. Hagen
Given this evidence, perhaps the Minister can explain to us why we're vaccinating healthy children who are at minimal risk from Covid. Surely this is in breach of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm. We're not in a situation where we can ask young people to risk their lives to protect older people. In a civilized society, that can't be the way it works.
Where's the cost-benefit analysis by age group for the vaccines, given the risks that they carry, especially as the pharmaceutical companies are admitting that the vaccine/vaccination does not impact on transmission.
Even a casual glance at the data shows that there's a very strong correlation between vaccine uptake and the level of excess deaths being found. Surely we must have an investigation. If we don't get this right, no one's going to believe / we're going to lose trust in politicians, and we're going to lose trust in our medicine, and our medical system.
-- Andrew Bridgen, Member of Parliament, UK
Science works by challenge.
That's how science progresses; a dialectic progression.
Science works by challenge.
-- Dr. John Campbell
I miss the days when misinformation actually meant wrong information not information that contradicts propaganda.
-- Luke Kent
The conspiracy theorists have been right 100% of the time. It's just pattern recognition at this point.
-- pseudonym Poisonedblade
We were proven right. Data has been on our side, and the recent studies are on our side. You don't have to be a scientist to know that.
I stood against vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, school closures. I was called a 'granny killer', was called selfish, I was called every name under the sun. These people ... I'd be very surprised if some of these media figures were not paid to say these things. They can't be that disgusting; they can't have been that naive and stupid.
-- Adam Brooks
Apparently, 'critical thinking' is now considered being a 'conspiracy theorist'.
-- pseudonym Mitha
We were there bringing the government’s own data to shine a light on the lies it so ceaselessly manufactured. These weren’t lies of omission, they were lies of commission. They were lies that were wrought by smelting the credibility of science and medicine in the fires of politics to create weapons wielded by the powerful against us. They literally called us terrorists for our opposition.
-- Emily Burns
The disingenuous refrains of 'safe and effective', 'rare side effects' and 'generally mild' are presented by public health officials as unquestionable truisms about COVID-19 vaccines, requiring no scientific data to justify them.
-- Dr. Roger Hodkinson
Let's not forget the outrage of lockdown and vaccine mandates was only made possible by stringent social media censorship. Now the regime is losing that weapon, they're terrified that such abuses of power will be harder to impose in the future. This isn't about hate speech, misinformation, bullying, or any other of the vacuous moral panics they contrive. It's about losing the power to impose and justify human rights violations which is what lockdown was. Losing the power to terrify the public into compliance and submission.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
When it comes to vaccine safety, let's examine the evidence, not demonize the questions.
-- Harry Rakowski
Some of us are listening, we have been for a while. Sadly, our populace is too fickle to apply a little critical thinking to what the media and political establishments feed them.
-- Matthew Gwynn
Unfortunately those you tried to educate were wrapped up in the MSM propaganda, believing everything they were fed, instead of using their own brain to think. The same people now who are too stubborn to even contemplate they may have been wrong.
-- Johnny Martin
In the spring of 2020, I tried almost alone to warn that the Government was making a grave mistake about Covid, over-reacting wildly like a man who burns down his house to get rid of a wasps' nest.
-- Peter Hitchens
When they say diversity, they really mean the exact opposite. They mean uniformity of thought. Everyone must think the same and accept their value system. A system ever so progressive and kind, that it requires relentless enforced compliance and never-ending indoctrination.
-- pseudonym Cosmic
The people declining the vaccine are the ones that have the most critical thinking, the most discernment — the strongest minds and bodies around us.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Politicians who support censorship of science are anti-science.
Journalists who support censorship of science are anti-science.
Scientists who support censorship of science are anti-science.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The continued coercion of this product can only be explained as psychopathic.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reminder to those asking for a meeting in my office. If your organization has a vaccine mandate, your request will be denied. I'm sorry that you work within an organization that's unscientific and eager to violate the basic human dignities of its employees.
-- Thomas Massie, US Representative
They went from 'we are the science' to 'please forgive us' awful quickly.
-- Spike Cohen
The MSM [mainstream media] wants a 'pandemic amnesty' after the brutal tyranny of lockdown period. They deserve a Nuremberg trial, not an amnesty.
-- David Kurten
After shutting down debate and declaring 'the Science[tm] is settled', the people in charge would very much like to proclaim 'we did the best we could; we didn't know any better'. But after ignoring the signals of harm while silencing their critics, there is no doubt they knew what they were doing.
-- pseudonym The Vigilant Fox
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other ... you've been had.
-- Michael Crichton
Now that we see how wrong the COVID 'experts' were on everything, those same experts are telling us that it's just time to move on.
-- pseudonym The Vigilant Fox
One way to heal the divisions after covid would be for all those who went overboard and incited hate, discriminated against or even wished death upon the unvaxxed, to apologize and tell us how wrong they were.
-- Maxime Bernier
'The science changes'. Yes, it keeps changing into things people said months ago and got banned for.
-- Clifton Duncan
I'm confused by the 'covid is not over' hashtag people. It's a highly infectious respiratory virus that will circulate forever as the other coronaviruses in common circulation do. We have no technology to rid the world of covid.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
For amnesty, all those culpable have to admit that they were wrong, there will have to be apologies, there will have to be criminal investigations in some instances. People need to be punished for what happened. How can you seek an amnesty when you're still doing that which you are presumably seeking an amnesty for?
-- Neil Oliver
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical assocations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.
-- Jessica Rose
Conformity is doing what everybody else is doing, regardless of what is right. Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
-- Jamie Sale
Common people will believe anything if they are frightened. But critically-thinking people will look for deception and find the truth through the smokescreen of fear. Listen to critical thinkers, not fearful reactors.
-- Dr. Suzanne Humphries
It's nearly 2023 and almost three years into the 'pandemic', they are STILL attempting to impose harmful policies based on political polling. Polling influenced by state-funded fear-mongering media completely detached from facts and scientific evidence. Endless feedback loop.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
-- Aldous Huxley
The excess deaths we've [been] seeing in the UK is the equivalent of a commercial airliner crashing every day ... since early spring. And there's hardly a whimper in the media or the government about it.
-- Morgoth's Review
There can be no doubt, that the immune status of a vaccinated person is fundamentally different from the immune status of an unvaccinated person. My heart goes out to the vaccinated people.
-- Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
The primary source of misinformation has been the federal government itself. It has used its power to control info. It has used propaganda techniques in order to destroy the reputations and careers of people who spoke out against.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
At the beginning of the pandemic, I was scared for about 10 minutes.
-- Dr. Martin Kulldorff
Remember when we used to treat colds and flu with chicken soup, saltwater gargles and warm tea instead of fascism?
-- pseudonym illuminatibot
They really are this stupid (Australia edition). Australia - 96 percent adult Covid vaccinated, 72 percent adult boosted - now fears it is heading into its fourth Covid wave this year. Which can only mean one thing - get another mRNA shot! Can't make it up.
-- Alex Berenson
Experts: The vaccine is safe and effective. Trust us. We know everything.
Also experts: We deserve Covid amnesty because we didn't know anything. We're also baffled about what is causing all these mysterious sudden deaths only in jabbed people.
-- pseudonym Milkmaniacal
They celebrated as people lost their jobs, education opportunities, and were denied access to amenities, medical care, and visitation rights. They demanded harsher discrimination and penalties. Same people now want to talk about 'be kind!' and love wins!'. Wicked people.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Alcohol and the Covid 'vaccine' are the only two drugs where people demand an 'explanation' for your abstinence. Our societies have a strange relationship with these two particular substances, but you don't need an 'excuse' to not take a drug.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
One of the media's greatest tricks is making fringe phenomena appear mainstream and common, whilst making mainstream phenomena appear fringe.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Don't take freedom for granted. It's fascinating how human societies naturally gravitate towards authoritarianism rather than liberty, and as a result we have to fight for freedom again, and again, and again.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
What we really have is a pandemic of those who can't admit they were wrong.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
The past 3 years has drastically altered my perception of people. When I walk into a crowd of 100 people now, I automatically assume that at least 97 of those people most likely have not the foggiest idea as to what is going on. I will never view people the same again.
-- Dr. James E. Olsson
I remember when governments offered weed, hookers, donuts, lottery tickets, and cheeseburgers as incentives for people to get the mRNA jabs. Are people still acting like all of this was fine, normal, and ethical? Or just pretending it didn't happen? We live through one of the goofiest times in human history.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Only in a country with fragile, hysterical leadership could the trucker convoy be regarded as an emergency justifying the infringement of civil liberties.
-- Bruce Pardy
Two years ago they couldn't wait to tell you how many were dying. Every single news bulletin, TV, radio and print. But in 2022, people are dropping dead everywhere and we hear nothing!
-- unknown attribution
It's weird watching people still direct their hate towards those who tried telling them the truth and not those who lied to them.
-- Ryan Rally
BC Government stopped reporting hospitalization data when:
1. 87% of hospitalized were vaccinated
2. 81% of ICU were vaccinated
3. 89% of deaths were vaccinated (77% triple vaxxed).
Never forget.
-- Dr. William Makis
Many people get ANGRY when you tell them the 'rona survival rate is over 99% for children and young adults.
1. This is a scientific fact
2. This is a VERY GOOD scientific fact
If reading this triggers anger, rather than relief, perhaps you are in a doomsday cult.
This is the first disease I've witnessed in my life, where masses of people WANT it to be worse than it actually is.
They crave the fear and the subjugation that comes with it.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
If we bribe or pay someone to have sex - it's prostitution.
If we tell someone they have to have sex and if they don't they lose their job - it's sexual harrassment and is a crime.
If we force someone to perform sexual acts against their will - it's sexual assault.
If we force someone to have sex without consent or they are incapable of giving consent - it's called rape.
What would you call it if we pay or bribe someone to get an injection?
What would you call it if we tell someone to get an injection or lose their job?
What would you call it if we force someone to get an injection against their will?
What would you call it if you were not given accurate information and did not have a chance to properly consent before getting an injection - to find out you were lied to?
I call it criminal - not worthy of amnesty - and something requiring accountability.
-- Sean G. Kaufman
Definition of insanity. Get vaxxed. Get boosted. Get COVID. REPEAT.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.
-- unknown attribution
A Danish study of 6000 showed there's no difference between a surgical mask and not wearing a mask.
-- Dr. Peterson Pierre
Also a prescient point; the reason we have systems in place to detect excess deaths in the first place is so when something is wrong we can detect it and investigate what is happening. For example, it may be that the water supply is contaminated. Yet we've had excess deaths for months and months across the West and no action is being taken by those in control.
I worked in the petro-chemical industry for years. If a machine overheats it triggers an alarm system, if no action is taken within a few minutes the machine will automatically cut-out. Yet, in terms of excess deaths, the alarms have been wailing for months and no action is being taken, the machine is not shutting down, despite the alarms the operators are carrying on anyway.
-- Morgoth's Review
Infection-acquired immunity is stronger than vaccine-acquired immunity. University presidents with vaccine mandates deserve the same respect as flat-earthers.
-- Dr. Martin Kulldorff
Covid Cultists won't give up. Now they want to force every schoolchild to undergo compulsory Covid testing. These people are insane - the Covid virus has effected their brains where rational and logical thought is no longer possible. They are also extremely selfish individuals, they don't care what hardships they inflict on others - as long as they think it makes THEM safe.
-- Craig Kelly
The world is engaged in the largest clinical trial, the largest vaccination trial ever.
-- Greg Hunt, Austrialian Health Minister
It's time to admit the experiment has been a catastrophic failure. The shots haven't stopped transmission nor infection. They haven't stopped people needing hospitalisation or dying. Instead they've let a trial of death of destruction - and the latest data shows the more times you've been injected the more likely you are to be infected. But sadly, having been tricked, many can't bring themselves to admit this.
-- Craig Kelly
[On injection manufacturer vaccine linked to blood clotting as determined by the US FDA] We warned you! Then you called us anti-science, anti-vax, horse paste eating conspiracy theorists who wanted to kill grandma and grandpa. Epic fail for dumb, useful idiot, government sheep.
-- pseudonym Ethical Skeptic
The mRNA injections are still on emergency us authorization because they'd be shut down within a week. This isn't about right or left, this is about right or wrong. When you have 1/800 SEVERE adverse events by [injection manufacturer's] own data, the harm ... is greater than the good. The risk-benefit, even for over 80s, is on the wrong side of the equation
-- Andrew Bridgen, UK Member of Parliament
The more you jab, the more likely you are to get covid!
-- Dr. Lynn Fynn
We turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people ... we start demonizing people who don't agree with our particular health policies and turn them into monsters, turn them into pariahs, say they don’t deserve a hospital bed. It turned into 'you should f**king die' because you have not complied. That's incredibly dangerous. After I witnessed personally what was happening, I started to wonder more and more about what we were being told and whether it was true or not. I began to educate myself and open my mind to what was going on.
-- Tim Robbins
There is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well, so you're never going to get that kind of benefit from mandatory year-round masking as you would from making substantial improvement to indoor air quality.
-- Dr. Ashish Jha
People are suffering. They didn't do the testing they should have and they're still not doing the testing. It's like they don't want to know.
-- Ron Johnson, US Senator
Imagine releasing a product that doesn't properly do what you promised it would do. And then blaming the malfunction on people who did not purchase said product. Whilst telling those who bought it that they must buy it again every few months.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Why are people no longer bragging about being vaccinated? What changed? The science?
-- pseudonym DJ Freedom Rocket
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.
-- writers for Doctor Who, 1977
It's not a booster. It's the 4th shot of a product that already failed three times.
-- attribution unknown
Screamed at zero people, discriminated against zero people, wished illness upon zero people, killed zero people, and celebrated the death of zero people. Some people turned into demons. We remember. Shout out to those who didn't.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I never told a single person that they COULDN'T take the vaccine. It was always their choice to make - yet those that got vaccinated always seemed to think they had the god given right to tell me I MUST have it or there would be consequences and that says it all really.
-- Janey J.
Fear does help the loosening of etiquette and civility! This 2 years 'helped' society to reveal its true face! Kind of sad, unnerving and quite depressing! At least we got a glimpse of our true souls!
-- Vas Gaganis
I like that government makes it illegal for you to put certain chemicals and drugs of your choosing into your body. While simultaneously forcing you to put chemicals and drugs of their choosing into your body.
-- Dr. Sydney Watson
My name is John Campbell, I am a semi-retired clinical nurse, nurse lecturer, academic, researcher and author of numerous articles and two text books.
My specialisms are human physiology and pathophysiology, as applied to clinical practice. I have also produced many educational videos which are used extensively around the world.
In my view the UK health authorities should pause the current covid-19 vaccination programme, due to the risks associated with vaccination.
...
I therefore consider that the UK government authorities should pause the current covid mass vaccination programme, until a full, population scale risk / benefit analysis is carried out, and published for free and open peer review.
-- Dr. John Campbell
The problem is, we are dealing with a brainwashed cult that 'believes' in the vaccines with a religious fervour. For the cult, pulling the vaccines from the market is the equivalent of admitting they've been praying to a false idol.
-- Craig Kelly
Every time a [politician] or clueless 'media personality' accused me of 'spreading misinformation' they'd never point out exactly what I'd said nor provide any evidence that why what I said was wrong. 'Misinformation' was just used as a slur to shut down debate - a debate they knew they could never win. The reality is when the prostituted media accuse someone of 'misinformation' what they really mean is an opinion that contradicts the narrative of Big Government and Big Business. A free and open democracy cannot survive if this is allowed to continue.
-- Craig Kelly
The more shots, the higher your rate of COVID infection. So, wouldn't it make more sense ... that people who got the shots can be terminated?
-- The Naked Emperor's Newsletter
Not gonna comment on the football injury out of respect for the family. But I can't help but notice a lot of people whining about 'anti-vaxxers' being mean for talking about it are the same people who breathlessly posted every article of an unvaccinated person dying of COVID.
-- Jesse Kelly
Claims of vaccine success built on modelling, not actual data, is not science, it is science fiction, it is marketing propaganda, it is fraud.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Swine flu vaccine (1976), 1 serious event per 100,000 vaccinees, Vaccine withdrawn.
Rotavirus vaccine Rotashield, (1999), 1 to 2 serious events per 10,000 vaccinees, Vaccine withdrawn.
Covid mRNA vaccines, 1 serious event per 800 vaccinees, Vaccine officially promoted.
Using publicly available data from [injection company] and [injection company] studies, we found one serious adverse event for each 800 vaccinees.
-- Dr. John Campbell
China's Covid nightmare is the final proof: lockdowns were a total failure. Sweden's refusal to impose compulsory shutdowns has now, by contrast, been completely vindicated.
-- Matt Ridley
With all the horrible stories I hear about, including from people I know, I’ve never been so convinced I took the right decision not to get the 'vaccine'. It should never even have been offered to people in good health under 70.
-- Maxime Bernier
This is a new religion. It's exactly like a religion. It's dogmatic, it's absolute. If you do not believe in it you are condemned to hell. Maybe this is a new religion.
-- Tim Robbins
In the absolute best cast scenario, the vaccines do not protect you from COVID and are basically snake oil. Even if this were the only problem with them and they were no more harmful than any past vaccine, it would still be evil to mandate them or hold people's livelihoods over their heads for not taking the snake oil. That being said, it doesn't take a genius to guess that vaccines created with novel techniques and employing a novel mechanism of action would pose unique risks. Published research is beginning to bear this out.
-- pseudonym RemnantPoster
I'm going to be very clear about this. The vaccine is killing people - and it's killing large numbers of people.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
Attempting to force-vaccinate the whole world with an untested, unsafe technology amounts to criminal negligence.
-- Ramesh Thakur
Professor Karl Popper was the hero of scientific and logical inference, and basically he [touted] the Black Swan hypothesis. Essentially if you take the hypothesis that lockdowns and masks are effective, well Sweden destroys that hypothesis single-handedly. Now I hasten to add we have nearly a hundred papers and analyzes now that looked at all
countries, [and] all counties of America, and came to the same conclusion. So we're as close to a scientific proof now as you can get that lockdowns and masks are simply ineffective. That's a Black Swan that breaks the hypothesis that lockdowns and masks are effective. That's it.
-- Ivor Cummins
[The 16th positive, statistically significant, controlled trial that finds ivermectin is HIGHLY effective in PREVENTING Covid-19 -- Dr. Pierre Kory]
And yet we still have those with weak gullible minds, so ignorant of the evidence and so easily influenced by propaganda that they have been fooled into believing that there's 'no evidence' of the Ivermectin's effectiveness against Covid and that this Nobel Prize winning medicine is 'horse paste'.
And these people think they are more 'enlightened' as they line up (double masked) for their 5th shot.
Perhaps it’s Darwinism at work?
-- Craig Kelly
The phrase "we need to do something" historically causes the wrong thing to be done.
-- Phil Nichols
The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading. See right away, I've got to say, this pisses me off - I see these headlines all the time. The pandemic didn't do that; the way we handled the pandemic did that. The pandemic certainly was a thing, but let's just not say the pandemic.
-- Bill Maher
Imagine being so weak minded and easily influenced by propaganda that you've been tricked into thinking the medicine considered second only to penicillin in terms of improving human health is a 'horse dewormer'. But sadly, and tragically, that's the mindset of today's leftists - the same group that religiously worship the Covid vaccines ... and that double-masking will save them - and farcically they actually think they are more 'enlightened'.
-- Craig Kelly
Don't outsource your thinking to other people. 'Experts' are frequently wrong (and often paid to be).
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
I've gone from a position where you think our leaders have our best interest in heart to now wondering, really, where the heck some of these decisions are coming from.
-- Dr. John Campbell
The problem of excess deaths around the world is still there, and I'm going to be looking at ... the fact that these excess deaths ... occurring across the age ranges. From younger people, middle-aged people, older people all are dying at a greater rate than you would expect compared to their peers. And I am not happy with the degree to which this is not being investigated
around the world, so I'll be giving some tips on how health authorities could do this, and trust me it's not difficult. These things have been known for a long time. It really is quite bemusing why we're not hearing more about this.
-- Dr. John Campbell
Terrified politicians just wanted to do something. I wish they'd be a little humble, accept that they don't know everything.
All of us have different values about safety versus freedom. Life's better when we individuals get to make our own decisions.
-- John Stossel
C19 wasn't actually as deadly as we were told. Not by a longshot. In fact, it was damn near identical to the flu.
-- Dr. Greg Nigh
This new paper finds that free spike protein is circulating in the blood of vaxxie myocarditis victims. This shows how the mechanism used by the vaccine is totally different from the mechanism of the virus itself. And it also proves yet another claim from the early vax rollout to be a lie; they told us that the free spike would remain at the injection site rather than circulate in the body.
The endless cope in the comments shows you exactly how much of a bubble these people live in. They needed a study to tell them something that I and many others predicted would happen all the way back when the quaccines first came out. Even back then there were studies detecting lipid nanoparticles in various bodily organs, away from the injection site. The LNPs are carrier particles for the mRNA. Soooo... What else could we have expected to happen?
-- pseudonym LeakyVax
New paper by ... the most cited physician in the world. Pre-vaccination infection fatality rate of Covid was much lower than that of seasonal flu for those under 60 years old. There was no pandemic. They destroyed the world over nothing.
-- Dr. Eli David
Ah yes, the "personal choice" of being threatened into taking an experimental gene therapy injection with unknown long-term side effects and proven short-term side effects that include death.
-- pseudonym RemnantPoster
Two years ago, they couldn't wait to tell you how many died. Tickers and death count on every news station and front page of every paper. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. Today, people are dying suddenly everywhere and we hear nothing.
-- pseudonym Shipwreck
For months on end the [Australian state] Covid Weekly Data Overview published by [Australian state] Health clearly showed that the quadruple vaccinated were more likely to end up in hospital or the ICU with Covid. The data made a mockery of the narrative, and exposed the claim of 'safe & effective' as a total lie. So what has the [Australian state] government done to fix the problem? They now hide the data on the vaccine status of those hospitalised, in ICU and that died with Covid that used to be published in their weekly reports.
-- Craig Kelly
The ethical basis for medical treatment is informed consent. In the case of the covid 'vaccine' there was deliberate misinformation and omission of facts, manipulation and coercion. It was fundamentally immoral.
-- Maxime Bernier
I'm sick and tired of the deliberate 'anti-vaxxer' smearing of decent folk who throughout their entire lives have been pro vaccination, but have done their research and decided that the Covid vaccine wasn't for them, or indeed raised questions over it. It’s defamatory and wrong.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
I've wondered why an illness caused by an ever-evolving virus, that is supposedly genetically distinct from its viral predecessors and said to cause different symptoms than other viruses or variants have caused, is still widely presented to the public as 'Covid'.
Like other marketing campaigns—only more so—countless money and boundless effort went into building the 'Covid' brand. In order to incite fear, Government/Media/Pharma had to set 'Covid' apart from centuries of respiratory illnesses experienced by those infected by other coronaviruses.
Politically and economically, it's been extremely useful to perpetuate the Covid franchise. Keeping some people scared of Covid helps to sustain the perpetual State of Emergency —oxymoron intended— and all of the Covid-linked government oppression and subsidy schemes that depend upon the myth of crisis.
If, instead of referring to 'Covid', Government/Media used all of the various variant names, the public might eventually figure out what they should have known in March, 2020: we've always lived among evolving respiratory viruses that briefly sicken many people but don't seriously threaten anyone who’s healthy.
Government/Media/Pharma have seared 'Covid' into the American consciousness and terrorized people by grossly exaggerating Covid's lethality. They aggressively suppressed criticisms of the attendant scam. By repeatedly saying 'Covid' and 'Pandemic', they weaponized these words in order to pacify and control the masses.
Fear of Covid is the opiate of the people.
-- Mark Oshinskie
If there is one thing that people should have learned from the pandemic, it is that the more control government takes over our day-to-day lives, the less we have of everything that makes life worth living.
All this panic for a disease with an infection fatality rate similar to the flu (even lower than the flu, for children) as was established early on by John Ioannidis of Stanford University.
Mainstream media outlets reported case counts and death counts in serious tones of dismay every day, without any context or comparison to standard death rates and the impact of respiratory diseases in years past. Emotional abuse of the public was rampant. Illogical fear, driven by a hyperactive media, and by cowardly and controlling government leaders and public health authorities ruled the day.
The Covid-19 pandemic response was not based on sound medicine or science, and was not commensurate with the actual threat of the illness. Even if Covid-19 had proved to be as lethal as it's falsely claimed to be, violating human rights and depriving individuals of personal autonomy are never the appropriate response to a pandemic. We must never let this happen again.
-- Lori Weintz
It's also been revealed that a lot of people don't value freedom and liberty perhaps in they way we thought that they did, or people claimed to. I've always had a suspicion that really people value safety and security, or at least the illusion of it, more than they value freedom and liberty. And that's really, really proven to be the case. In everything that's going on, every government overstep, every bit of authoritarianism, or outright tyanny. What's the justification for it? 'For the greater good, for your health, for your safety'. That's always the justification even when they're clearly, clearly going way, way, way beyond that.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.
-- Terry Pratchett
Some of us weren't in the dark about covid and therefore have nothing to apologize for. And despite not being a scientist, or a doctor, or an epidemiologist, or an immunologist, I was able to conduct my own research but interrogating the actual available data. The coronavirus, covid19 appeared to have a 99.97% survival rate, which was in line with the regular flu. So why did we shut down the world for that?
The populace were terrified by fearmongering propaganda on the mainstream media, that was based on obviously-flawed science to anyone who took like 10 minutes to investigate further.
Tragically, most people blindly trusted their governments, and the so-called science, and the experts without question or further scrutiny. Some of us had the temerity to disagree with the television, do our own research.
Everything about what we endured was anti-human. It was pure cold, malicious evil. It was totalitarian, insidious, manipulative.
There is no two sides to the story; there is one side that picked on the victims. There was a vocal group of covidian cultists who bought into the covid lie, who relished in the persecution and othering of dissenters. They were the useful idiots of the regime.
-- Dave Cullen
I'm not in favour of this medical bullying and medical apartheid which people are pushing for.
In a crisis, whether it's real, manufactured or imaginary, it forces people to play their hand.
This situation has given people an excuse to be a-holes and to act as if they're doing it for some greater good, and it's no, you're just being a jerk. It has nothing to do with a virus. You can now get away with that kind of behaviour and still pretend you're the good guy.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
It forces people to show what their character looks like when they're tested by adversity. And some people just do not know how to handle it.
-- Joe Rogan
What we have here is tribal zealotry. [Television personality] needs to make up a reason to justify why he has gotten multiple vaccinations but is still getting sick and still wants to get more vaccinations.
-- Tim Pool
Boy the narrative sure did change a whole lot as to what we were supposed to get out of these vaccines.
-- Tim Pool
The mental gymnastics these types have been going through to avoid saying "I was wrong" is impressive.
-- Vyxel OP
The best thing about being a conspiracy theorist is not developing myocarditis.
-- unattributed internet
Record excess deaths in most western countries in 2022. This is not due to Covid, but a man-made catastrophe, the result of disastrous public health policies.
-- Dr. Eli David
Why are the 'fully vaxxed and boostered' people so angry with the unvaccinated? They believed vaccines were safe and effective, and now learned they are neither. They should be mad at FDA, CDC, and [Director of NIH], not the unvaccinated.
-- Dr. Eli David
Everything that has never caused heart attacks in the past began causing heart attacks in 2020.
-- Robert John
There is nothing wrong in making mistakes. What is wrong is not correcting them.
-- Ayn Rand
If all these 'sudden deaths' were in the unvaccinated population it would be on the news 24/7.
-- site: Vaccine Choice Canada
While there are conflicting data, with some studies even finding mask mandates associated with increased mortality, what is indisputable is that the claimed benefits of mask mandates never manifested in the data.
Remember how state governments around the world, including state governments in the US, threw out decades of research into pandemic response and instead resorted to extreme authoritarian measures that had no scientific basis, and how they ridiculously did so in the name of 'following the science'?
There was never any scientific evidence supporting these executive orders by clueless governors. The CDC and others later produced studies trying to provide ex post facto justification for them, claiming they work, but the CDC’s attempts in particular were excoriated. To put it another way, the CDC’s 'science' followed its policy rather than its policy following the science.
Other studies have found mask mandates to be associated not merely with no effect but with worsened outcomes. Regardless of how plausible one considers the hypothesis that mask use results in increased viral loads for the wearer and thus increases the risk of severe disease, what is indisputable is that the claimed benefits of mask mandates never manifested in the data. These government interventions remain today, as when they were first implemented, unsupported by scientific evidence.
Perhaps if so-called 'public health' authorities would stop just talking about following the science and start actually doing it, their policy recommendations wouldn’t be so, at best, useless.
-- Jeremy R. Hammond
The same crowd that said '...if we can save one life it's worth it...' doesn't give a s**t about people suddenly dropping dead.
-- Ian Smith
Stanford Researchers found that C19 had a median Infection Fatality Rate of 0.034% for people under 60: 'a shockingly low fatality rate to close down the planet, sacrifice children's educations, and keep people from their jobs for not having a vaccine'.
-- site: Daily Clout
Australians were once prosecuted for claiming face masks worked against viruses. Businesses faced [huge] fines for making [that] claim during the SARS outbreak.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bulls**t does.
-- Terence McKenna
Is it really difficult for them to see the presence of the same dark forces in the US government’s insouciant abrogation of the Nuremberg principle relating to informed consent and medical experimentation? Are they not troubled by the fact that the experimental vaccines that were sold to the population on the basis of their ability to stop infection do not do that? Or that this was known to anyone who read the FDA briefing papers published when these injections were unleashed on the public?
Does this count as a major “propaganda problem” worth looking into?
Do they care about the millions of people who lost their jobs over these lies?
Being the great sleuths of information-hiding that they are, did it raise any suspicions in them when [a drug manufacturer] sought to keep all clinical information relating to the vaccines under wraps for 75 years?
-- Thomas Harrington
I'm filming this video to share my strong conviction that at this point in time, all COVID vaccination programs should stop immediately. They should stop because they completely failed to fulfill any of their advertised promise regarding efficacy. And more importantly they should stop because of the mounting and indisputable evidence that they cause an unprecedented level of harm, including the deaths of young people and children.
-- Retsef Levi
The problem is we are dealing with a brainwashed cult of vaccine fanatics that will never accept how dangerously wrong they were, how they failed to follow the science and the evidence and were duped.
-- Craig Kelly
It's a living nightmare. We have to endure two years of constantly sharing basic information that should have stopped the injections, see it all get ignored, then watch the very people who ignored us present EXACTLY THE SAME INFORMATION as if it's only just come to light.
-- Bob Moran
At this point, every public health agency - local, national, international - that asserts that community masking is effective in controlling covid community spread, has revealed itself as incapable of scientific reasoning on this topic.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
City, state and federal officials lied again and again to the public about the efficacy of numerous COVID interventions including masking, social distancing, school closures and vaccines.
This completely wrecked their credibility on medical issues in general — and vaccines in particular.
In short, the public-health establishment earned a ton of distrust. America needs a trustworthy public-health establishment, but getting it requires some kind of truth-and-reconciliation commission, with significant firings and massive, unflinching and public mea culpas from city, state and federal health departments — and reforms aiming to ensure they never make the same mistakes again.
-- New York Post editorial board
The much more important point was that the "vaccine" was rolled out without long-term testing. Therefore one of two conditions applied. Either no claim could be made with confidence about the long-term safety of the "vaccine" or there was some amazing scientific argument for a once-in-a-lifetime theoretical certainty concerning the long-term safety of this "vaccine." The latter would be so extraordinary that it might (for all I know) even be a first in the history of medicine. If that were the case, it would have been all that was being talked about by the scientists; it was not. Therefore, the more obvious, first state of affairs, obtained: nothing could be claimed with confidence about the long-term safety of the "vaccine."
Given, then, that the long-term safety of the "vaccine" was a theoretical crapshoot, the unquantifiable long-term risk of taking it could only be justified by an extremely high certain risk of not taking it. Accordingly, a moral and scientific argument could only be made for its use by those at high risk of severe illness if exposed to COVID. Even the very earliest data immediately showed that ... the overwhelming majority of the population was not in the group.
Given the lack of proof of long-term safety, the mass-"vaccination" policy was clearly putting at risk young or healthy lives to save old and unhealthy ones. The policy makers did not even acknowledge this, express any concern about the grave responsibility they were taking on for knowingly putting people at risk, or indicate how they had weighed the risks before reaching their policy positions. Altogether, this was a very strong reason not to trust the policy or the people setting it.
-- Robin Koerner
To generalize the last point, a supposedly conclusive claim by someone who demonstrably cannot justify their claim should be discounted. In the case of the COVID pandemic, almost all people who acted as if the "vaccine" was safe and effective had no physical or informational evidence for the claims of safety and efficacy beyond the supposed authority of other people who made them.
-- Robin Koerner
The unvaccinated were the winners.
-- Scott Adams
The common retort is to insist that the COVID-19 vaccines were not "experimental." This appeal seems a little desperate — a grasping at straws.
In medicine, there's no substitute for time, and when COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out to the public, there were no long-term studies into their impacts. Though it is said vaccines protect the most vulnerable from severe disease, many of the claims made about the vaccines' effectiveness proved to be wrong, and many adverse effects in younger populations have manifested. People seem to want to pretend that the scale of the experiment — hundreds of millions the world over — somehow renders it not an "experiment."
What's most revealing is that so many vaccine apologists ignore whether these vaccine mandates meet the definition of "coercion."
-- Rav Arora
Most of the people eager to declare this amnesty are the ones who contributed to that misery. Now, they've just realized they got it wrong. Even so, I have some level of sympathy for those who were consumed by fear and acted accordingly. I have no sympathy for those who peddled and promulgated that fear. To this day, the only emergency was the cessation of civil liberties at the hands of the [Canadian] government. Never forget the ones who vilified people for choosing not to be vaccinated. Never forget the government that maligned those who dared criticize it. Never forget that the prime minister suspended civil liberties because he refused to admit his failures. For them, we need accountability, not amnesty.
-- Andrew Lawton
The panic is over. Those who went too far in so many ways have a lot of confessing and apologising to do.
-- Peter Hitchens
If the government has to tell you there's an emergency, there isn't one.
If your government has to tell you your rights aren’t being violated, they are.
-- Andrew Lawton
Most thinking people are beginning to learn that our response to the virus was a series of dangerous mistakes.
-- Peter Hitchens
Now that establishment media is catching up, from a 'scientific' perspective, none of this was justified. However, even if it had been 'scientifically justified', there was absolutely no justification to stomp on civil rights. Freedom is not a scientific calculation.
-- Kate Wand
It's a big brutal being two years ahead of the curve. Some people lost their jobs over the nonsense of 2020. Still waiting for an apology.
-- Aaron Kheriaty, MD
No matter if the virus was natural or manufactured, the experiment data is in and the worlds population can be scared, bullied and forced into submission. Beyond just submission. Some will become overzealous enforcers.
-- pseudonym supernaut
Deep down, everybody knows that none of this stuff made sense, nor was it effective in a positive, tangible way. All the mandates, policies, hysteria, confusion, and fearmongering did (and will continue to do) is cause more harm than good. And continue to erode trust in our institutions and fellow human beings.
A small minority of us said this all the way through and we received scorn, insults, discrimination and even ostracisation for voicing concerns and asking reasonable questions.
The real question is whether people have the honesty and fortitude to accept they wasted 1-2 years of their life. Oh, and pretty much everybody still got the rona regardless. That was predictable.
If people don't learn from this then it is guaranteed to happen again. Don't just pretend that we didn't live through this, and that people did not behave how they did, and say what they said. We all remember what happened.
P.S. If you got sick or lost somebody to this particular illness, then that sucks. My condolences. It still does not mean all these measures were justified nor righteous. They didn't even work. People get sick and die every day. It's been happening forever. It's just usually not advertised. We cannot control everything. Welcome to reality and the human condition.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
Humans are addicted to doomsday narratives. I've noticed that sometimes people WANT things to be worse than they are, so their neuroticism and paranoia will be vindicated.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
It turns out that these masks that we wore for such a long time are actually completely useless. As indeed are these paper ones that we also wore for a long time. They don't seem to do anything at all according to the data.
-- Dr. John Campbell
Muzzles did exactly as intended, scare the sheep into taking the shot.
-- Kevin Talbot
There's nothing wrong with being wrong. To err is human. It becomes a problem when you choose to stay wrong. To deny error is willful blindness. New information is an invitation to question old opinions. The faster you are to recognize your mistakes, the less wrong you become.
-- Adam Grant
It's amazing how many people would prefer to coerce others than to tolerate the freedom of others in exchange for their own.
-- Bret Weinstein
'Do something' is not science, and it shouldn't have been public policy. And the people who had the courage to say as much deserved to be listened to, not treated with contempt.
-- Bret Stephens
Governments, pharmas and media should have admitted the vaxx was experimental, there was a risk taking it, and it was up to each of us to decide. Instead they blatantly lied about its efficacy and safety, coerced everyone to take it, and demonized and persecuted dissidents.
-- Maxime Bernier
Substituting 'hope' for science in regards to public health policy is no way to run a country.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
No government anywhere in the world has released accurate data that is stratified by age group and vaccination status. This is because they all intuitively know that the vaccines are not helpful. They don't want that data out because it would increase vaccine hesitancy and also make them look bad.
-- Steve Kirsch
It's not that [US Director of NIH] and company got the facts about immunity after covid recovery wrong. They used the vast power of the government to censor and marginalize those who go the facts right.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Florida saw a 1,700% increase in adverse event reports after COVID-19 vaccinations. Does that sounds safe and effective? I didn't think so either.
-- Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo
The covid lab leak theory was plausible. Masks were useless. Lockdowns didn't work. The vaxx was not safe and effective, and no better than natural immunity. And those who said we were conspiracy theorists for believing all this were the real covidiots.
-- Maxime Bernier
Covid 'conspiracy theories' proven right:
- the virus came frmo a lab leak
- its mortality rate is same as flu for most people
- masks are ineffective
- vaccines don't prevent infection or transmission
-- Dr. David Martin
Vaccines do not stop transmission.
-- New South Wales Premier
How are they ever going to explain the excess mortality data in Australia? Australia didn't have a lot of COVID deaths until after they rolled out of the COVID vaccines. Now excess deaths are out of control.
-- Steve Kirsch
When vaccine mandates started rolling out both provincially, for entering restaurants and other establishments, and federally, for things like boarding a plane, you could see a shift in how people were feeling.
Suddenly, our big old country that celebrates diversity was expected to be entirely the same on one driving issue.
Here we had a leader [Canadian Prime Minister] who had no issue creating an environment of intolerance for anyone who did not fall into line. And to make it worse, his MPs and supporters started doing it, too.
It wasn't long before you couldn't log onto social media without seeing the clear and evident divide that was cutting through the population. We had a whole group of people who felt extremely comfortable telling other Canadians they should be prevented from accessing services, stripped of their health care and everything in between. A government that had pledged to crack down on online bullying was making it acceptable for Canadians to harass their neighbours for making a different medical choice.
-- Jennifer Laewetz
Approximately Zero. Masks make no difference in reducing the spread of Covid, according to an extensive new review by Cochrane - the gold standard for evaluating health interventions.
We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero. The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither surgical masks nor N95 masks have been shown to make a difference in reducing the spread of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
This verdict ought to be the death knell for mask mandates, but that would require the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the rest of the public-health establishment to forsake "the science" - and unfortunately, these leaders and their acolytes in the media seem as determined as ever to ignore actual science. Before the pandemic, clinical trials repeatedly showed little or no benefit from wearing masks in preventing the spread of respiratory illnesses like flu and colds. That was why, in their pre-2020 plans for dealing with a viral pandemic, the World Health Organization, the CDC, and other national public-health agencies did not recommend masking the public. But once Covid-19 arrived, magical thinking prevailed. Officials ignored the previous findings and plans, instead touting crude and easily debunked studies purporting to show that masks worked.
-- John Tierney
[Ivermectin] A drug that's on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines. And for them to have the gall - to have the sheer audacity to just out and out lie to people about what a medication is.
-- Joe Rogan
The science on COVID, on the lockdowns, on the mitigation measures, on a whole host of topics. If the public was listening, they would hear this idea that there was this univocal conclusion that you had to do lockdowns, you had to wear masks, you had to socially distance, you had to put plastic barriers up, you had to close schools. You had to do all of these things ... that the vaccines would stop transmission of the disease, that therefore it was warranted to force people to lose their jobs over them. All of these ideas were sold as if there was a scientific consensus in favour of them.
That was a lie. There was never a scientific consensus on almost any of the topics.
On masks, in fact the pre-existing idea among most scientists before the pandemic was quite the opposite direction. What happened was a relatively small group, a cartel almost, of very powerful scientific bureaucrats took over the whole apparatus of science, at least as far as the public eye was concerned, dominated the media, dominated the message to politicians. As a result we had a catastrophic response to COVID and we're going to be paying the cost of that for a very long time.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The thing about forgiving people that were so mad and they called people who wouldn't get vaccinated 'plague rats'. There was fake narratives like 'they're the reason why the variants are coming about, because of these unvaccinated people'. Which is completely the opposite of what the science shows. That is just a normal part of vaccinating people during a pandemic. Geert Vanden Bossche ... he is a vaccine expert and he was talking about how the standard model is you never vaccinate during a pandemic.
-- Joe Rogan
Now we know for sure that our leaders lost their heads over Covid. There can now be no doubt that the strangling of our society in 2020 was just as mad and stupid as I said it was. It failed to stop the spread of Covid. Our economy was wrecked, the national work ethic was destroyed, our liberties were shredded and the NHS crippled, probably permanently. Even now jobs are vanishing and businesses closing as a result of it. The education of the young was trashed, and the lives of the old made so miserable that many gave up and died. I have never seen any policy so obviously wrong from the start.
-- Peter Hitchens
This is what I was talking about about just having integrity. It's scary, it's shocking how we found that there are so many people in the media, at pharmaceutical companies, big business, politicians, whoever it is, who are completely ok to just lie.
These people won't correct themselves. They won't accept any type of error, go back on anything.
Lying's not a mistake. There's a big difference between making a mistake; huge difference between being wrong and lying.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
There's no outrage because the vast majority of people were complicit. They'd rather we all just ignored what happened and moved on, simply because they don't want to confront their own moral and intellectual weakness.
-- Stacey A.
One thing I learned over the last several years is just how stupid a staggering percentage of people are. Giving MORE power to any government is a terrible idea, no matter which country you're in.
-- (pseudonym) Human
What is unquestionably certain is that we have A LOT of cowards who complied and are still stubborn and proud to believe government has their best interest at heart. You can't fix stupid, it's chronic.
-- (pseudonym) DonReality
In a democracy, indeed in any ethical and free society, the truth is essential. The American people need to hear the truth — the facts, free from the political distortions, misrepresentations, and censorship. The first step is to clearly state the harsh truth in the starkest possible terms. Lies were told. Those lies harmed the public. Those lies were directly contrary to the evidence, to decades of knowledge on viral pandemics, and to long-established fundamental biology.
-- Dr. Scott Atlas
My beef from day one with the Covid response was that they lumped everyone together. You could see from the early data even in March/April 2020, the high risk people were elderly, those who had a pre-existing condition, and those overweight. Instead they treated a 10 year kids the same as a 91 year old grandparent. It totally contradicted the data and showed they were never following the science.
-- Chris Olivo
Renowned vaccinologist and viral immunologist, Dr. Byram Bridle, broke down [drug company]'s 6-month clinical trial update ... and the results are eye-opening: no death benefit, increased adverse events and fraudulent data manipulation.
-- Gord Parks
Clinical trials are supposed to be statistical comparisons. They are designed to compare the outcomes in the group receiving a novel product with the outcomes in the group receiving a placebo. The resulting statistics are then used to decide if the product is safe and effective.
This statistical approach also makes sense for new products. This is because, with a novel product, we don't know how it affects the human body. So, to avoid bias or speculation, a cold, hard statistical comparison is deployed.
This is why, if more people died in the vaccinated group than in the placebo group in [drug company]'s clinical trial, the FDA should have pulled the plug on this product.
Yet, when more people died in the trial after vaccination than after placebo, did the FDA pull the trial? Nope. Instead, it let [drug company] explain away the deaths.
-- Aaron Siri
The BBC conspired in the campaign of fear that kept Britain locked up. Ministers and the broadcasters treated fighting the virus like a war - justifying the shutdown of all dissent.
It wasn't about science, it was about politics. That was obvious as soon as the government began talking about following The Science as if it were a fixed body of revealed truth. Nobody who knows anything about science could say such a thing unless they were engaged in a deliberately misleading campaign of public coercion.
The sheer absurdity and pointlessness of so many of the restrictions on normal life should have given the game away: this programme was designed to frighten not to inform and to make doubt or scepticism appear morally irresponsible - which is precisely the opposite of what science does.
-- Janet Daley
We have a baby formula that kills a couple of babies and the entire product is removed from the market. And here you have all of these deaths being reported and no one is doing anything. I've never been more terrified in my life.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
I don't trust people who regularly use the terms 'misinformation', 'disinformation', and 'hate speech' unironically.
Not because they have no meaning at all, but because they are typically used to silence discussion and justify censorship.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
This pandemic showed me a side of humanity that I'm never going to unsee for the rest of my life. I knew humans were capable of great evil, but I didn't realize how easy it would be for 90+% of people to be cool with perpetuating a mass killing and disabling event.
-- pseudonym anxiouscatmom
Almost every single 'public health' intervention that was made on the part of the US gov was wrong.
-- Dr. Robert Malone
There's been so much subterfuge around the whole Covid issue. There was great amount of emphasis on getting rid of anything else other than the vaccine. They were just villainized: 'all these things, it's just terrible stuff, you can't do it'. And yet, we now know that those things could have saved many, many lives; people who died unnecessarily.
And then the way that doctors and scientists were silenced who didn't agree ... anything other than what the government said ... were misinformation providers, and should be shut down. And big media ... all these people colluded in doing this. Why were they doing that? That is a huge question.
-- Dr. Ben Carson
It turned out that Covid's mortality rate was less than 1/10 of those early reports. In retrospect, I should have been more skeptical. It's hard to believe that I trusted the government too much, but there you are. Well, lesson learned.
-- Glenn Reynolds
What the COVID-19 pandemic showed is that the flow of information, which may be the single most vital resource in the supply chain, is utterly broken. In many cases, it was actively undermined by senior public health officials.
-- James Folcik
A pandemic of fear was deliberately created for the purpose of compliance. Compliance with lockdowns, face masks and with a jab which has the worst efficacy and most horrific side effects of any pharma intervention in the history of medicine. If we don't wake up now we never will.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Either the thing is true, or it isn't. If it is true, you should believe it, and if it isn't, you shouldn't. And if you can't find out whether it's true or whether it isn't, you should suspend judgment. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful, and not because you think it's true.
-- Bertrand Russell
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein
A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get.
-- Ian Williams Goddard
It's hard to tell yourself you've been taken for a fool, but open your eyes.
-- Neil Oliver
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
-- Thomas Sowell
What our so-called leaders and their henchmen in the media did over the past
three years was abuse our trust to the point where it's gone.
-- Neil Oliver
What was done in the name of covert was grotesque a violation of the rights of billions of people.
-- Neil Oliver
I've always considered myself to be about as mild-mannered as they come. Obedient to rules, respectful of authority. If you told me a few years ago that I'd be censored here in the UK for asking questions, I'd have scoffed. But here we are, and here I am; like so many others, increasingly subject to censorship online. Too many broadcasters and journalists in this country - those inclined to speak up about blatant wrongs by authority - have simply being silenced.
And far too many have been willingly and enthusiastically complicit in the slavish transmission of Parliament's message and the suppression of contrary views. And yet three years later, in all manner of silenced views, those that were called misinformation or ridiculed as conspiracy theory have been proven correct after all. Scientists, doctors, and other health professionals; a handful of journalists, people from all walks of life had their reputations trashed, their livelihoods destroyed, and yet they were right all along. But still the censorship and silencing goes on.
-- Neil Oliver
Stupidity ... is not in short supply. We will need decades to review the unimagined stupidity of both the actions and words of elected politicians and 'journalists' for just the last three years.
-- Thomas Paden
You know the virus will come roaring back. That was one problem lockdown advocates failed to foresee. To a remarkable extent, frightened people (the British were deliberately and professionally frightened by Government psychologists, remember) fell in love with their corona captivity.
-- Allison Pearson
In Sweden, it's even written into the law that the health care should be driven by evidence-based medicine and that was so quickly left behind in other places.
-- Anders Tegnell
For the powers-that-be, COVID virus+lockdown (problem+solution) is the perfect tool to use against the public.
It can be invoked, threatened, implemented, revised, expanded, revoked, reintroduced... Sometimes the analyses of the virus will make sense, but they don’t need to. Sometimes the uses of the lockdown will make sense, but they don’t need to. It is all entirely at the whim of the government, because the media will ratify whatever decisions it makes as perfectly justified and proportionate, and completely in line with established precedent, even though there are so many contradictions along the way that there is no established precedent!
A [skin colour] rally without masks is safe, because [bulls**t]. A Remembrance Day parade with masks is unsafe, because [bulls**t]. You think this doesn’t make sense? Well, you just don’t understand science.
The virus is endlessly malleable as a “problem”, the lockdown endlessly malleable as a “solution”.
Never have so many been so controlled so easily.
-- pseudonym Millennial Woes
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
-- Theodore Dalrymple
Throughout the pandemic ... the vaccines attained an almost exalted status that ensured any critics - no matter the quality of their evidence – were unfairly disparaged. Some fault must lie with a too credulous, incurious mainstream media, naive to ... political and financial forces.
At the very outset, compelling entire populations to take a scientifically novel vaccine, produced on a political timetable, against a disease that for the bulk of people was a bad cold, was a highly questionable policy, arguably trashing traditional medical ethics about informed consent.
Yet even as it became clear throughout 2021 and 2022 that the experts pushing vaccine mandates had been wrong over and over again, "safe and effective" remained the mantra.
Governments and experts insisted vaccines stopped transmission when they clearly didn't, even though [drug company] later admitted it hadn't even studied that question.
There was never a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." Breakthrough cases were never "rare." Indeed, by 2022 it was clear that a big chunk of those dying from or with Covid-19 had been boosted. It remains an awkward fact that far more people have died from or with Covid-19 since the vaccine rollout (which targeted the most vulnerable groups first) than before, a weak prima facie case for a supposedly “highly effective” vaccine.
Warning signs were flashing bright red about safety all along.
Social media performed abysmally too. The latest batch of Twitter Files revealed a systematic effort by US government-funded NGOs to remove even true stories of vaccine injuries. In an Orwellian twist of history, any posts throughout 2021 that warned of vaccine passports, mandates, or argued for natural immunity were removed.
-- Adam Creighton
An abundance of studies has shown that the mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous.
-- Astrid Lefringhausen
Amazing how we don't need science to inflict demoralising measures, but do need it to lift them.
-- Faux Pas
I have young children in my class at school wearing masks, and even when outside playing. They're fearful of breathing the air. Absolute tragedy what we've done to our precious children.
-- Sarah Walker Beach
The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
-- Mark Twain
It's remarkable how many people believe themselves intellectually superior for repeating what authority tells them.
-- Steve Patterson
It's so sad that fear caused most people to rush out and get that jab that was experimental! I never got jabbed nor my husband and 3 adult kids, we all had Covid and survived. Our other family members that had the jab have had Covid over and over, my mom has declined in her health since. This is a crime against humanity.
-- Missy Sue
Their performative outcry wraps itself in the cloak of the morally righteous. They act like they've got the moral high ground, when nothing could be further from the truth.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Public health authorities betrayed science during the pandemic, and their credibility suffered.
-- Mark Smith
If people are controlling truth then really it's ... if we don't have science, if we can't talk about science, if we can't openly
debate science, as is not possible at the moment in Canada, then then where are we? Who is the arbiter of truth? Does it become political opinion? It really is quite frightening.
-- Dr. John Campbell
As a Canadian, I'm horrified at how easy it was for the government and main stream media to trick the public and how punitive they were towards anyone who disagreed with their transparent narrative. It will be even easier now as they've just passed a new law that will allow the government to censor online content.
-- Nicole [unknown]
Such a sad world where 'authorities' (real and self-proclaimed) are allowed to disallow honest questions and basic research by labeling it 'misinformation'.
-- B Barr
Deep down, everybody knows that none of this stuff made sense, nor was it effective in a positive, tangible way. All the mandates, policies, hysteria, confusion, and fearmongering did (and will continue to do) is cause more harm than good. And continue to erode trust in our institutions and fellow human beings.
A small minority of us said this all the way through and we received scorn, insults, discrimination and even ostracisation for voicing concerns and asking reasonable questions.
The real question is whether people have the honesty and fortitude to accept they wasted 1-2 years of their life. Oh, and pretty much everybody still got the rona regardless... That was predictable.
If people don't learn from this then it is guaranteed to happen again. Don't just pretend that we didn't live through this, and that people did not behave how they did, and say what they said. We all remember what happened.
P.S. If you got sick or lost somebody to this particular illness, then that sucks. My condolences. It still does not mean all these measures were justified nor righteous. They didn't even work. People get sick and die every day. It's been happening forever. It's just usually not advertised. We cannot control everything. Welcome to reality and the human condition.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
The Australian people were initially told that mRNA injections would stop them getting infected with Covid, would stop them spreading it, and most importantly would stop them dying from it. We were told that we were selfish if we were not willing to be vaccinated and that we could kill grandma or kill grandpa. Around 97.5% of Australians over 16 followed the government advice and have had at least one dose of mRNA injection, yet the only data that accurately identifies the vaccination status of those who got Covid [...] showed quite clearly that the vaccinated are more likely to be infected, hospitalized, and die of Covid.
-- Ralph Babet, Australian Senator
Do not call it SCIENCE if you aren't allowed to question it. Call it a BELIEF SYSTEM. Call it a RELIGION. Call it a CULT. But stop calling it SCIENCE.
-- Talia C.
We live in an age when a high public health bureaucrat can, without irony, announce to the world that if you criticize him, you are not simply criticizing a man. You are criticizing "the science" itself. The irony in this idea of "science" as a set of sacred doctrines and beliefs is that the Age of Enlightenment, which gave us our modern definitions of scientific methodology, was a reaction against a religious clerisy that claimed for itself the sole ability to distinguish truth from untruth. The COVID-19 pandemic has apparently brought us full circle, with a public health clerisy having replaced the religious one as the singular source of unassailable truth.
The same priests of public health that have the authority to distinguish heresy from orthodoxy also cast out heretics, just like the medieval Catholic Church did.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Much has changed in science since the pandemic and much of it is change for the worse. The pandemic has highlighted the loss of credibility of the public health establishment and the often toxic nature of current public discourse. John Ioannidis stands out as perhaps the best example of a fine scientist who was smeared and denigrated mercilessly both online and in the literature. There was also a flood of fraudulent papers and badly flawed studies. This made claims that we should follow the "The Science" almost laughable, given the extremely poor quality of much of the science. The use of coercion was inexcusable when there was no rigorous basis for it.
It is blindingly obvious that the spread of viral epidemics is riddled with unknowns, is a badly ill-posed problem and models will all be wrong, and mostly badly wrong. Yet modeling played a significant part in motivating the policy response to Covid19.
The list of issues where pseudo-science was used to make decisions is long. Mask mandates, lockdowns, school closures, vaccination recommendations, vaccination requirements for employment or university attendance, and travel restrictions. The public was often bullied and/or manipulated into compliance based on fear and/or media generated panic.
-- David Young
From the outset, [the US NIH Director's] entire COVID mitigation strategy was based on an experimental vaccine rushed to market under the branding 'warp speed'. There had never been an mRNA-approved vaccine before, and now it was being pushed non-stop from the White House podium with the full support of the pharmaceutical industry.
It was always highly illogical to deploy a static vaccine toward a mutagenic and constantly changing coronavirus. Then came the checks the vaccines couldn’t write. [The US NIH Director] told us they would stop transmission. He implored us to 'follow the science'.
Today, the science is clear: the COVID vaccine does not prevent transmission or contagion of the virus.
In my private practice, I have treated more than 500 patients suffering injuries from the vaccine, I have seen the unintended -- but brutal -- harm they’ve often caused up close and personal. Yet to raise any of these issues is to risk one’s livelihood. That is [the US NIH Director's] greatest stain on our country.
[The US NIH Director] fostered an environment where doctors who deviated from the preferred party line were persecuted and even criminalized for offering a different point of view. Silencing free expression and thought is the antithesis of America, and dangerous for science, innovation, and medicine.
-- Dr. Pierre Kory
They weren't 'moving at the speed of science'. They were skipping the science.
-- pseudonym JoeCensored
Even the most widely accepted scientific theory is never beyond being questioned. And being challenged that is the nature of science. As opposed to religion, dogma, or ideology.
-- Rowan Dean
We keep being told that X number of scientists agree with this or that theory ... but it was Galileo Galilei, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, who overturned centuries of consensus, dogmatic thinking who said quote, in questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual, end quote.
-- Rowan Dean
It was Carl Sagan, another great thinker, who pointed out that, quote one of the saddest lessons of history is this - if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge even to ourselves that we've been taken. And Sagan said once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. And Sagan also said if we can't think for ourselves; if we're unwilling to question authority, then we are just putty in the hands of those in power.
-- Rowan Dean
No one is more anti-science than a person that says 'the science is settled'!
-- pseudonym Stooge McDuck
It's a worldwide phenomenon of people making probably, which will turn out to be if they're analyzed properly, the wrong decisions about the same issue at the same time. I might have to get some new conspiracy theories, because all the ones I had before have been proved right now.
-- Andrew Bridgen, UK Member of Parliament
Unlike you regime sycophants, not everyone just swallows the legacy media narrative without question. Not everyone is conned by your phony moral high ground posturing. Not everyone is happy with the monstering and demonization of [people]. Not everyone is disconnected from reality.
-- Paul Joseph Watson
Science has progressed through a uniquely productive marriage of human creativity and hard-nosed skepticism, of openness to new scientific contributions and persistent questioning of those contributions and the existing scientific consensus.
-- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Skepticism is the highest of duties, and unverified belief the one unpardonable sin.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
Leading publications throughout the pandemic especially ... have gotten things completely wrong. On lockdowns, masks, mandates, vaccines, etc. They have gotten these issues so wrong. Misleading the public.
-- Rav Arora
I just find it incredibly sad. The fact that family and friends told you you were selfish, stupid, uneducated. It's also quite scary to realise how so many people can be fooled and made to take part in the victimisation of others.
-- pseudonym Janie45
People who tell you that the science is settled about ... COVID vaccines... Once you say that the science is settled, this disqualifies you as a scientist. Scientific truths are provisional. Epistemic humility is a hallmark of a real scientist.
-- Gad Saad, Professor
What's amazing too is how many just lap up the conditioning instead of questioning the coercion. Today's knowledge is only as good as the next discovery.
-- Paul Bulas
Given the choice between socialism and liberty, I would prefer to be free than managed, and take my chances.
-- Bruce Pardy
The never-perfect and then further declining efficacy of the mRNA vaccines gradually seeped into the public consciousness in late 2021 and throughout 2022. First, it became clear they didn't prevent infection and transmission. Later, widespread belief that they at least prevent hospitalization and death also began to erode when Covid-19 hospitalizations increased among the vaccinated.
The much-heralded 'bivalent' boosters - meant to fight two variants at once - had an even shorter half-life. Among several key datapoints, the positive finding in a study by the Cleveland Clinic of its 51,000 employees that the boosters 'afforded modest protection' was essentially negated by its conclusion that the greater the number of vaccine doses, the greater the risk of contracting Covid-19. Least at risk were those with zero doses. In other words, the mRNA jabs had less-than-zero efficacy - they were worse than useless.
-- Margret Kopala
I'm not by nature an activist, but every aspect of lockdown just fills me with ... it has nothing to do with science, it's damaging to the poor, it's damaging to kids in ways that public policy never ought to have done. And we did it out of ignorance and fear and hubris. Sweden - the all-cause access deaths in Sweden - is something like three percent; it's among the very, very lowest in all of Europe. Sweden did not lock down. And they have lower mortality than lockdown Germany, lockdown UK, lockdown France, even lockdown - I think they've now surpassed Finland and Norway. It's almost no excess deaths. Imagine that. Imagine if we'd followed a policy like Sweden. We could have avoided all the harms to our children, we could have avoided all the suffering caused by the lockdowns, the the closed businesses, the unemployment, all of that, the economic harm. And still protected our people better from Covid.
-- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The lockdowns were a mistake.
-- Peter Robinson
Seemed wrong and evil at the time and three years later it's confirmed, it was wrong and evil.
-- (pseudonym) Grateful Dawgs
I'm shedding a tear just coming to terms with the level of incompetence we were subjected to while knowing the truth, and then weathering the level of hostility from those that could not see it.
-- (pseudonym) shank2340
Why did some people know immediately it was all lies? They used common sense.
-- Margaret Frassrand
This study is the first all-encompassing evalution of the research on the effectiveness of mandatory restrictions on mortality. It demonstrates that lockdowns were a failed promise. They had negligible health effects, but disastrous economic, social and political costs to society. Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times.
-- Professor Lars Jonung
Quite incredible really and should we have been, should I have been more critical of governments at the time. Obviously. But that was the only data we were getting. This is why trust has been destroyed. We trusted governments, we trusted our chief scientific officers, we trusted our chief medical officer. And that trust I'm afraid has been destroyed. And the implications of that are massive.
-- Dr. John Campbell
When it comes to COVID, epidemiological models have many things in common: dubious assumptions, hair-raising predictions of disaster that miss the mark, and few learned lessons.
-- Professor Steve Hankey, Johns Hopkins University
Real science embraces debates. Cults, on the other hand, evade them.
-- pseudonym user-sy2jy1si8f
[It] appears to have been a form of motivated reasoning (which I call covidization) that over-emphasized the benefits and necessity of Covid interventions and downplayed their risks and societal costs. Covidization has meant that people were much more willing to accept greater multidimensional societal harm for hypothetical benefits against the virus. This should support a higher level of healthy skepticism about simplistic narratives and technocratic governance that aim for unrealistic goals presented to the public as urgent moral imperatives.
-- Kevin Bardosh
If you supported mandatory lockdowns, banning people from going outside, restricting people from seeing relatives, forced face coverings, mandatory injections, segregation, mass censorship, and/or denying healthcare to people, don't lecture us about 'human rights'.
-- Nzube (Zuby) Udezue
You've got to love the ever small-bore nature academic minds, don't you?
They are able to endlessly parse the possible deleterious effects of experiments on human subjects when serving on college Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), and can engage in spirited debates about the ethics of one of the world's most famous and telling psychological experiments more than fifty years after the fact.
But when it comes to using their exquisite training to look at what is, by far, the largest experiment on human subjects in history (the lockdowns and vaccine mandates) — one that clearly violates the core ethical tenets of informed consent and medical necessity, not to mention the US laws governing the administration of EUA products and the EEOC guidelines on the use of coercive incentives to achieve vaccine uptake — they mostly have nothing to say.
But even more troubling, if that is possible, is their widespread failure to recognize and harshly condemn what has been, in effect, the staging of a massive new version of the Milgram experiment in our time, wherein government officials, the media and medical experts actively and quite blithely encouraged the infliction of pain upon those citizens who were simply uncomfortable with being forced to take highly experimental drugs with no proven track record or safety history.
The list of ways Milgram-like "teachers" – who voluntarily supported the drive to inflict pain (social, financial and otherwise) upon those with the temerity to maintain their intellectual and moral integrity in the face of a clearly manufactured crisis – is nearly infinite.
But looking around and listening to people today, it's as if none of it ever happened. No significant apologies have been issued by anyone in charge.
-- Thomas Harrington
If the 'medical professionals' that are so angry at this apparent misinformation aren't willing to debate, why would I believe them?
-- pseudonym cormoran2303
When they say, 'don't debate conspiracy theorists.' What they really mean is, avoid debating truth seekers because your lies will be exposed.
-- pseudonym efardette
He who speaks the truth is not afraid to be questioned. He who lies is afraid to be questioned.
-- pseudonym tootunedout
COVID-19 and the response from our so-called leaders worldwide has forever changed humanity.
-- pseudonym chadsisk1244
Psychopaths don't apologize, they double down!
-- A Mishel
It seems people don't know how to think critically anymore.
-- Nathan Wilkins
Imagine being on the wrong side of history while it repeats itself. Like failing an open-book test.
-- Kevin Sorbo
All totalitarian governments work under the principle that they are doing everything for the common good.
-- Infographics Show
Seeing those nurses dancing triggered a deep, ancestral loathing and hatred for my government and for the pharmaceutical industry I haven't felt since 2020.
-- Jason Uerkvitz
I lost all trust and respect for the medical 'professionals' during the covid dance party of 2020.
-- pseudonym deadhouse3889
Even the East German Stassi never dreamed of a time when people voluntarily leave their jobs and stay home or be turned in by their own neighbours and those that could leave had to wear something that defined you as a follower of the rules and carry a tracking device allowed to those who had done as the regime dictated!
-- John Bolt
I always found the dancing nurses phenomenon a bit creepy, in hindsight, it's downright sinister.
-- Alex Mac
Time to ramp up production at the fear factory again! Gotta get the population scared, staying in their homes and compliant. Lock me down harder, Daddy!
-- pseudonym nebula0024
The ones asking to be left alone are not the extremists. The ones demanding everyone comply or get locked up are the extremists.
-- unknown attribution
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.
-- George Carlin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-- Mark Twain
It's terrifying that only those people capable of independent thought can see what's happening.
-- pseudonym Stadsjaap
What protection? The vaccine ended up not preventing anyone from getting Covid or transmitting it. Also, there is not enough data yet to know the long term effects of the vaccine. So what mother with intelligence and love for her baby would want to risk its health with something that was experimental just a few years ago? I have to question the integrity of any doctor who would tell a mother that it's OK.
-- pseudonym Jake
Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.
-- James Randi
People think I'm nuts for questioning everything. I think you're nuts for trusting everything.
-- Tara Rogers
How do you tell who's telling the truth? The ones trying to silence other people are the ones lying.
-- attribution unknown
'Trust the science'. I do trust the science but coercion is not science. Censorship is not science.
-- attribution unknown
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
-- attribution unknown
They [UK politicians] partied because they knew that Covid didn't really pose a danger and that the lockdowns were totally unnecessary. The outrage shouldn't be over 'rule breaking', the outrage should be over the [political party in power] imposing unconstitutional and completely unnecessary restrictions on the lives of British people.
-- Mark Collett
Prior to facemask mandates as an alleged preventive for Covid infection and transmission, such masks were infrequently worn in hospitals and other medical facilities. They were only used in operating theatres or for visiting seriously ill patients in order to prevent infection from spit or droplets into open wounds or to partially protect visitors from acquiring and transmitting pathogens more dangerous than Covid. ...for decades, if not longer, staff wearing medical masks were an uncommon sight in health care facilities other than as mentioned.
No studies were needed to justify this practice since most understood viruses were far too small to be stopped by the wearing of most masks, other than sophisticated ones designed for that task and which were too costly and complicated for the general public to properly wear and keep changing or cleaning. It was also understood that long mask wearing was unhealthy for wearers for common sense and basic science reasons.
There has been an international flood of lies about mask wearing in order to justify the bizarre and disturbing situation we have today of almost everyone wearing masks.
-- John C. Carleton
The unnecessary and greatly exaggerated fear during the first few months of this pandemic ... has been manipulated to continue to this day, unlike past experiences with similar virus outbreaks. There have been numerous lies fed to the public by the WHO, national and regional government leaders and health bureaucrats and the media and many other institutions – all certainly for the purpose of maintaining fear until the large majority of the public has been injected with the poorly tested, unnecessary and dangerous Covid vaccines for which we have no evidence of their long-term safety.
-- John C. Carleton
47 studies confirm ineffectiveness of masks for Covid and 32 more confirm their negative health effects, especially for young children, who are at almost zero risk of Covid harm.
-- John C. Carleton
This cumulative academic research shows that the collateral damage of the pandemic response was substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people in the years ahead. Societal harms should challenge the dominant mental model of the pandemic response: it is likely that many Covid policies caused more harm than benefit.
This should support a higher level of healthy skepticism about simplistic narratives and technocratic governance that aim for unrealistic goals presented to the public as urgent moral imperatives.
-- Kevin Bardosh
The policy and media response to Covid-19 that contaminated the collective psyche. It began in government, where the initially unknown nature of the virus caused those in power to catastrophize and embrace an apocalyptic archetype. They concocted the 'safest' solution in the form of lockdowns. The media, eager to stoke fear because it generates clicks, jumped on board. Together, these two corrupt entities stomped out rational thought, ignored data, and generated an hysterical response to a virus with 1.1 percent death rate in an extremely narrow demographic. They gave birth to mass psychogenic illness (MPI) in the populace, which has proven – and will continue to prove – catastrophic for America and the world.
-- L. Matthew Meyers
There was no ... moral struggle among the Covid-19 authoritarians. They refuse to acknowledge that every single element of their public policy choices and communications were completely wrong. They refuse to admit that they engaged in nonsensical rules that stripped individuals of their civil rights, and effectively forced Americans to be injected with an experimental drug that was leaky and non-durable, that appears to increase the likelihood of contracting the virus when injected multiple times, and whose safety appears increasingly in question. The science regarding the injections was faulty. The authoritarians refuse to accept responsibility for these moral transgressions. Indeed, they justify it and imply they'd do it the same way again.
-- L. Matthew Meyers
There's now too many lies to easily debunk. Key take-away the lies ... are still being told today. The damn liars have simply worn us down. I could debunk every one of those bullet points, but I'm growing tired of writing the same rebuttals over and over. Even if someone does debunk these whoppers, these people are going to keep lying ... and keep telling us what to do. The only conclusion I can make is that - especially regarding topics that might involve 'life and death' - people, for some surreal reason, simply want to keep believing the liars. Most people in the world must feel 'safer' believing lies.
-- Bill Rice Jr.
The insanity of having to enter a restaurant with a face diaper but then taking it off five feet away when sitting down to eat was the height of insanity!!!
-- Pete Sequeira
I will never forget ever, in my entire life ... people cheering and calling for the deaths of people who didn't want a vaccination.
-- Cody Lawler
You can see how they pulled this off. They easily fooled the people incapable of critical thinking, and they aggressively attacked those capable of critical thinking to the point of threatening their livelihood if they refused to comply. It was a diabolical plot that worked well enough and which they seek to repeat apparently. Obviously, only people of the worst kind of evil, totally devoid of empathy, could plan and execute such a plot.
-- Michael Rapson
[On masks including N-95] There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop. Makes no difference — none of it. There's no evidence that many of these things make any difference.
It's more likely than not that they don't work. This is not just against SARS-COV-2. We're looking at interventions over 78 trials over 50 years. The whole review is over half a million participants in these trials. Now the underlying problem that we've got there is that people are drunk with certainty. They're told that something works, end of the story. That's not science.
-- Dr. Tom Jefferson
Years ago, vaccines were produced over a period of years and actually prevented the disease from affecting the human body, as Polio, Measles, Tetanus etc. Now the medical profession and pharmaceutical are using the word vaccine for medicines or experimental drugs that are not preventing the spread of a particular disease and possibly causing fatal side effects.
-- pseudonym dexterdog
Well AFTER the two original vaccines and then two boosters, I had Covid THREE times so far in the high risk group of over 80. Hard to follow the science and be convinced that I need another vaccine. Seems my own immune system needs to be left alone now.
-- pseudonym JWD
The Covid-19 response included several of the worst things that ever happened in the history of humanity: isolating children (causing learning disabilities), quarantining healthy people (for the first time in history), forcing people out of work and not be able to earn a living, and mandating experimental medication are some examples - not to mention isolating family members and forcing the infected into facilities with the most vulnerable. That wasn't merely wrong, it was evil.
-- pseudonym Tommy Shamrock
The 'vax' doesn't kill the virus, prevent the virus or prevent the spread of the virus. Separately, there is no empirical data that supports the claim it reduces symptoms.
-- pseudonym Basket
When they said the centuries old science of natural immunity wasn’t a thing but I was to trust the months old “science” of Big Pharma without question, they lost me.
-- Bob Mader
I think the fear to danger ratio in the recent disease panic was way out of proportion. My trust in the medical and pharmaceutical industry has been eroded.
-- pseudonym oilhammer
This is about ethical, evidence-based medical practice.
-- Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Activists have been defining the terms of the debate, branding experimental public policies with value-laden language that convinces people they're worth supporting before anyone's had a chance to assess them on their merits.
-- Ginny Roth
Being suspended [on social media] really means you won the argument. The only reason for suspension is the other side knows they can't win the debate.
-- wtk6069
[May 4, 2023, after pandemic declared over worldwide and the needless, insane, coercive damage done]
Researchers are still learning about the ways the shots may affect people's health.
-- Alice Park, Time Magazine
I wouldn't tell people to assume that the consensus is correct, nor would I tell them to assume that what somebody's saying ... is wrong. You just have to be very cautious, you have to be very skeptical, and really fact check, and really do your homework with information that you're getting. The danger, I feel, is when people see something ... and just jump headfirst. If the person seems very credible, if the person seems charming, or if the person is just rapidly going through information that the viewer isn't familiar with ... it's impressive, they go wow, this person knows a lot. Scientists and doctors, we make a lot of mistakes, we have areas of ignorance, we're not perfect either. Challenging a doctor is a good thing, asking questions is a good thing. Going home and then reading up and making sure that what you heard aligns with the evidence, this is good. I try to encourage my viewers to always do that... . Don't just trust me. Go through the evidence, listen to other people, and see if what I said is right or not. Challenge me with information that seems contradictory. I think those are all good mindsets, as long as we're all in a headspace of healthy skepticism. I think the question is, how do we cultivate this mindset of skepticism so we don't fall for the first thing we see, or the first thing we want to believe, right?
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
I had a significant problem with the severity of the health measures. My problem increased when it came to light that the measures were all based on huge mistakes at best and/or outright lies at worst.
-- G. Smith
I don't think they fully comprehend the level of harms done due to irrational fear and hatred, or even the very bad understanding of relative risk.
-- Daniel Schegh
We have this idea that science is about precision and certainty. That we can run a scientific experiment and prove something beyond all doubt. But in reality, the opposite is true. Most, if not all sciences deal in uncertainty. In biomedical science - biology, medicine, public health - we're never 100% sure. Instead, the scientific process is about approximation - a gradual reduction of uncertainty.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
The diktat of this caused me not being able to hold my first and only grandchild, to not being allowed in family's homes and to be excluded from shops and restaurants, it was even suggested that I should see a therapist because of my 'misplaced fear of the vaccine'! I actually burst out laughing at this last point. In all of this, I am proud that I never gave in to this utter abuse of our human rights. [Certain people at least did] thorough and diligent research into this worldwide farce.
-- Jeannie Marsh
Thankfully we hear almost nothing from [Director, US NIH] these days, but it's stunning to be reminded how he presented every drop of BS with such authoritative urgency.
-- Paul Massey
There may not always be a straight answer to every question. Anyone who tells you that something is totally amazing and has no downsides will always be lying.
-- The Infographics Show
This is the big problem. You don't want politicians making these decisions because ... they don't ask the question: 'is this what's best for people?', they ask the question: 'is this what's best for my political prospects?'. They're not making the strictly meritorious medical decision. In this case, they made an absolutely bone-headed decision by pursuing this broad policy.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
The [US CDC] is a useless agency ... lost all credibility. Any agency that says you ought to mask 2-year-olds with a cloth mask except when they nap has to be full of people who are just grossly incompetent. I mean you have to be tremendously stupid to think that that policy could have a benefit. You have to be catering to anxiety and irrationality rather than evidence. To simultaneously not run any randomized trials on these questions of masking speaks to their poor management.
I just want to also point out, that they're going on tv and actively misleading the American people; they're selling this vaccine; and worst of all, they actually are trying to silence people who disagree with them.
They're taking an absurd view, and they're simulteneously trying to censor anybody who doesn't hold that absurd view. That's just crazy. This is not science.
You take mediocre scientists, you empower them by politicians, and then you curtail any scientific debate. It's a terrible situation.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
Any organization ... that actually in the heat of the pandemic - they actually said - you need to put a 2-year-old kid in a cloth mask - and that was enforced by Federal law - 2 and 3 and 4 year-olds. In a cloth mask ... except for when they take a nap all in the same room on mats next to each other, in the same enclosed air, but other than that they have to wear a cloth mask .... Anybody who ever said that is a total moron, and you should never trust such a moron. Because you really have to be absolutely braindead to ever think that could possibly help. That's the level we're talking about here.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
The Covid inquiry should be treated as severely as the people of this country were treated by the government during the Great Panic of 2020-2021. All involved should be told to go home and stay there. It is perfectly obvious that they are not interested in any serious consideration of the possibility that the whole thing was a ghastly mistake, made in a condition of outright panic by people unqualified to run a parish council.
The minds which were closed at the start of the panic are still as closed as ever. The establishment, who turned a drama into a crisis, who bankrupted the country, wrecked the education of millions of children and students, mangled the NHS and launched the biggest attack on personal freedom in modern times, have learned nothing and remembered nothing from the disaster.
-- Peter Hitchens
The cost-benefit makes sense? Ridiculous. To talk about cost-benefit, you have to know benefit. You can't just make up benefit. [The CDC] doesn't have that evidence. When you don't pick the best scientists, you don't get the best scientific decisions. When you don't pick people who believe in generating evidence, you're not picking scientists, you're picking political shills. A good scientists says well there are points on both sides, but let's think of the study that will settle it. That study is multiple randomized control trials.
Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't know the first thing about medicine, they don't know anything about medical history; they're just arrogant.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
It's easy for people to hear vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, and just think vaccine good, vaccine good, vaccine good. And vaccines have been good. Some vaccines have been tremendous! However, all medical products are different. Think of the reason, the indication, the level of evidence, the actual risk .... You have to use your brain. You can't just think vaccine good, vaccine good. That is what, honestly, a dumb person thinks. But sadly, there are a lot of such people ... they really regress back to these very simple heuristics.
-- Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD PhD
Uncounted numbers are dead or ill after taking state-sanctioned meds marketed as vaccines. Every day there's more evidence to challenge the advertising slogan about safe and effective, but still the jabbing continues. In other news, thousands of excess deaths worldwide are recorded every day, which is to say more people are dying than ought to, with no investigation and no explanation of the cause. The death toll of those who might otherwise have been expected to be alive is the equivalent of a fully laden passenger plane crashing in the UK every day. It's statistically accurate to say the United States lost more people in the 18 to 45 age group after a year of the vaccine rollout then that Nation saw fall dead in Vietnam in a decade. But you'd have to look hard to find that bold fact in the archives of the mainstream media.
Ingredients in the products pushed as vaccines are known to pass to babies via their mother's milk, but no one seems to mind very much about that. Heart attacks harvest callow boys on the field of play; otherwise healthy people die in their sleep; has disrupted menstruation for half of all women that took the jabs, sampled by one Norwegian study. Think of that.
-- Neil Oliver
Not sorry to say that ... using the background that I have in what's called 'evidence-based medicine'. Where you have to turn associations around into prospective clinical trials before you make a conclusion or a practice policy to make a treatment.
-- Dr. Eric Westman
When the vast majority of their models proved completely at odd with observable reality, they simply doubled down.
-- Thomas Harrington
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd.
-- Bertrand Russel
The ones asking to be left alone are not the extremists. The ones demanding everyone comply or get locked up are the extremists.
-- unknown attribution
After having been so deeply, consequentially, predictably wrong, the Coronamaniacs deserve not only to be metaphorically beaten down but to be chased as they run away like the mindless, arrogant bullies they were.
-- Mark Oshinskie
The spring 2020 spectacle of wildly shifting statements from public health officials and political leaders, its blizzard of decrees and edicts, proliferating 'mandates,' haphazard changes of direction, imposition of seemingly arbitrary rules, public chaos, and sheer aura of panic – sweat-drenched faces, bulging eyes – might lead any citizen to believe that governments had never planned for or faced an emergency. The promiscuous use of 'unprecedented' to describe Covid-19 only added to this feeling. In fact, Alberta had a thoroughly designed, tested and previously deployed emergency plan. It just chose not to use it against Covid-19. This bizarre and gravely damaging decision has still not been explained.
-- Barry Cooper
I can't decide if I'm more disturbed by the sheer evil that was at play in every aspect of this, or that so many people fell in line and fell for it all. When it all looked like complete lunacy, I was sure people would see right through it, but they didn't.
-- pseudonym gigih2169
There is hardly anything more stupid and dangerous than putting important decisions in the hands of people who don't have to pay a price for being wrong.
-- pseudonym gearoidt6761
What number will suffice? How high must it go? How many dead? When will we - a supposed civilization - say enough is enough? Around the world, the number of excess deaths in aftermath of the covid pandemic ... and the roll-out of the products marketed as vaccines, keeps rising, cycling ever-upwards ... surely declaring something somewhere is dangerously wrong. We are in fact ignoring planeloads worth of extra deaths. Ask nothing, say nothing. Instead the extra thousands fall unnoticed, or at least disregarded as inconvenient truth by the authorities, nominally charged with our wellbeing.
Are these numbers - these bald statistics in front of our faces being reported worriedly or angrily by mainstream news? Are our politicians gathering hurriedly and en masse to ask questions and seek answers? Is 'the science' under pressure to explain what's happening and thereby turn back a deadly tide? Like me, you know the answers to those questions is a resounding 'no'.
And so I ask again: how many dead will be enough? Which number?
-- Neil Oliver
The claims of tens of millions of lives saved was based not on real world data, but on mathematical modelling. The paper was dismissed as 'no more than an opinion piece', as all work based on mathematical modelling must be. And yet its declaration about millions of lives saved went around the world and back again, eagerly quoted by countless politicans, physicians, and mainstream media. Other websites carrying the findings of other mathematical modelling and statistical analysis by credible and esteemed scientists that find nothing less than the absolute contrary ...
that calcuate numbers of deaths after the roll-out of equivalent magnitude, equal and opposite to those claims of lives saved. Why trust one set of figures from matehatical modelling or statistical analysis - broadcast and repeated to this day - while simultaneously ignoring and refusing to discuss others drawing alternative - indeed diametrically-opposed conclusions? Why isn't all of this freely, openly and honestly discussed without prejudice by those notionally committed to saving lives? As I understand it, that's a big part of how 'science' is supposed to be done.
-- Neil Oliver
Covid can be a nasty virus for some, but so can flu.
-- Mark Dolan
The people who governments have successfully manipulated into fear driven narratives ... have unwittingly already sacrificed their freedom for a false sense of safety. To them, dissidents have become a threat and governments have become parental figures and those who have successfully been manipulated are counting on those parental figures to force dissidents into compliance.
-- Matt Beaton
If you want to take the jab, you should be able to. If not, no one should take your job or freedoms as a result. This is the arrogance of the pro-vaccine community towards people who didn't take the jab. Being pro-vaccine in many cases is more than just a choice, it's a mindset you try to force on others.
-- John Simmons
I've seen the very raw figures, and they are quite worrying because there's excess deaths of the younger people going on, not just in the older population. This is something that's highly unusual and highly alarming. This excess death started and correlates with the vaccine program. So it doesn't mean to say it's associated, but why hasn't it been looked at? There is a groupthink that thinks and accepted it's very good, that it's safe and effective. I was trained as a clinical scientist to look at the facts, and to constantly change my opinion depending on the facts.
-- Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology
Do you not find it odd that the flu basically disappeared during covid?
-- Viva Frei
This is just plain evil. But I find it amazing that folks still are blind to what had happened and continues to occur.
-- pseudonym Echo_blu
How anyone can go on TV and claim it is safe and effective with next to no data to support the claim and be proven wrong within a couple of weeks is insane.
-- pseudonym simonw3858
Even if you wanted the shots and don't regret getting them, you still were not giving [sic] informed consent for them.
Being informed means you were given all the information about risks, benefits, alternatives, and were under no coercion to accept them.
They did not give us the absolute efficacy. They reported a relative value.
They censored side effects.
The government and news organizations through pro-vax propaganda influenced perceptions and decisions.
-- pseudonym FiatLuxGenesis
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
-- C.S. Lewis
I remember reading about propaganda in history books and thinking 'wow, it's so obvious, nobody would fall for it today.' Boy, was I wrong.
-- unknown attribution
People are out there, hating us for not living in fear. What a time to be alive.
-- unknown attribution
The mass censorship of doctors and scientists who oppose the c−19 regime is proof that it was never about 'following the science.' It was always about propaganda and power. When regular people resist they say 'you're not a doctor,' when doctors resist they silence them.
-- unknown attribution
Decisions which were overwhelmingly wrong .... We suspended the precautionary principle. We ignored the fact the interventions may cause more harm. We suspended the need for medical trials. We suspended all sorts of safeguards that have stood society in good stead for a long time.
-- Miriam Cates
If the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms is to have the priority called for by our Constitution, the courts, in particular, need to be directed by law to give more weight, not less, to the expeditious protection of constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms during a time of emergency. These include: strengthened protection for freedom of expression, academic freedom and professional freedom; explicit protection against prejudicial profiling by the state and discrimination based on medical status or history; and explicit guarantees of the right to informed medical consent and the right to freedom of choice with respect to medical procedures.
-- Preston Manning
My lessons: Governments can be callous. Covid taught many Canadians that governments will, for political reasons, be less than truthful, autocratic, and become bullies. And toss aside any rights and freedoms you think you have. That professionals who are speaking the truth are "walked over" and caused to "shut up".
Legacy media failure to be objective: The Convoy youtube media taught me, that the legacy media will, for political and financial reasons, be less than truthful, and will propagandize at a drop of a hat, mimicking the language of a PM who rants.
Some non scientific advisory of health department: It also told me that government health departments act in non scientific ways. And so their advice must be viewed with some scepticism.
-- James Collins
The pandemic period was when authoritarianism became normalized. Initially, well, you have to stay indoors because you're protecting other people. There's no evidence that it protects other people; there's no evidence that social distancing works. The whole argument fell apart and I think helped us to recognize that what neoliberalism in the form of this peculiar new form of leftism was masking was authoritarianism, a desire to control, a desire to signal virtue rather than practice principles and actual virtue.
-- Russel Brand
We live in the world where the truth must be explained again and again, while a lie is often blindly believed.
-- pseudonym BotschafterZissel
Absolute risk reduction is not a good measure of efficacy of intervention if it is an intervention in a disease that changes prevalance.
-- Roger Sehuelt, MD, Pulmonologist
I remember being in the hardware store picking up tools here in the US when over the intercom they had advertisements saying how if you want to save your grandkids, get the shot. It is absolutely disgusting what they did. I fear the impact will be felt for generations.
-- Lance Bennington
Covid is a perfect example of why government power should be limited with zero exceptions. And why 'experts' and institutions should never be blindly trusted.
-- Angus Sharp
Science is on its death bed. Lies, specious argument and fraud abound in a variety of scientific endeavours including the treatment and vaccines for Covid-19. Managers and politicians have taken over where previously the scientists were in charge. They have been able to utilise the bizarre language and contradictory processes of political correctness, making themselves into the high priests of a new religion, one which spawns more politically correct managers and despises experts.
-- (unknown attribution)
Alleged scientific certainty is today being scandalously exploited to serve a perception of truth.
-- Sir Richard Dearlove
We are following the science was the strap line that led in the UK to a national catastrophe from which we are still recovering.
-- Professor Karol Sikora
Censorship is never needed to protect the truth, but it's often required to protect a lie.
-- Ken Jackson
When I asked my primary care physician about the shot. He told me not 1 single person in his family had been shot. Not him or his wife. Not any of his 7 kids. That told me all I needed to know.
-- Brent Tuttle
I was put on leave without pay for 4 months for refusing to take the unsafe and ineffective therapeutic in Canada. It was worth it. I don't take chances with my health. Thalidomide was doctor recommended too. Never forget.
-- Lindi
At this point in time we should not still be tap-dancing around this topic. The 'authorities' are corrupt. Period. Mistakes were not made, it is a crime.
-- William Jeffreys
Reporting both relative risk and absolute risk is important to provide the most complete assessment of the safety and effectiveness of an intervention. The salient points relevant to Covid vaccines are that 1.) absolute risk was not reported by the drug companies/regulatory agencies and 2.) absolute risk is indeed more important when it comes to public health policymaking. When you want to know the societal effects of a policy like mass vaccination, the absolute risk (and number needed to treat) is more informative of how much benefit the policy will provide. In retrospect, the return of mass vaccination was clearly not effective at stopping the spread of Covid and should surprise nobody since we were sold on a "95% effective" tagline without full presentation of the data.
-- pseudonym dadominate
Research from the medical school in Chicago today. Now it just seems quite incredible this hasn't been done up to this point, especially when we consider some of the, uh shall we say, confident statements made by our medical, scientific, and political leaders about how important it was to get vaccinated to prevent [sic] those around us. This casts a very critical light on that. The key thing is that there is no significant difference - no significant difference - between the amount of viral particles shed by someone who has been vaccinated and the amount of viral particles shed by someone who has not been vaccinated. Now if this is true - if this is substantiated by further research - that means there would be no scientific basis for saying that vaccination of one person protects another person. But you wouldn't quite guess that from some of the overstatement, potential overstatement, don't want to be too harsh on these people - that was said during the pandemic which influenced our thinking, really quite significantly.
-- Dr. John Campbell
RFK Jr., he was so reasonable and so smart and so many interesting ideas and enlightened me to this cozy relationship between the regulators and the pharma companies which I really wasn't aware of. I mean I can't let a pharma company representative into my office to give me a pen with a drug name name on it, and
yet those guys are living together and cross-pollinating. I mean that's mindboggling to me. He had a very sensible - didn't necessarily fully agree with it - but a sensible idea about vaccine research that he would like to push forward. Not that vaccines are bad - his family's all vaccinated; my family's all vaccinated and at the end of that interview he said something to me. You know Drew, you are so courageous to talk to me. And I thought ... it blew me back in my chair. I thought, I need courage to have a conversation with an adult in a public setting? And he was right. This is a time where I didn't realize how much speech was being suppressed, how much was being manipulated. Then what happened after that was the 'Twitter files' and they started seeing what was going on, and it's just been to me this is all reprehensible. I never imagined I'd be this point in my life, at this age and place in my career - freedom fighting - and the courage to stand up for it have been the most important things in my life right now and that's crazy, that is crazy. I live in the United States of America and I have to worry about freedoms? I'm to fight for freedom? That is an insanity!
-- Dr. Drew Pinsky
Imagine platforms and media that wouldn’t allow you to discuss your personal side effecs from a pharmaceutical product and a government who mandated their use while shielding the manufacturer from liability. What a nightmare that would be.
-- Dr. Joseph Mercola
Let's thank social media for courageously stepping in to defend the giant drug corporations.
-- pseudonym VolvoImpala
At this point being a conspiracy theorist feels like a noble profession.
-- pseudonym adman1381
Man, it's almost like these things go through years-long trials before being pushed out to the public for a reason.
-- pseudonym ForeverLaxx
No, no, no, no, in my opinion you do not need a covid vaccine or a covid booster if you are metabolically healthy. Unless you've got some radical risk factor - you're a transplant patient, you're a brittle diabetic, you've got a profoundly suppressed immune system.
-- Dr. Robert Cywes
I love being a conspiracy theorist. Maligned, slandered, hated ... but still right.
-- [pseudonym] boogie mcsploogie
The first red flag is stating pet theories as fact. [Having] an idea, a hypothesis, and presenting it like it's established truth. Let's just make a key distinction here: hypothesizing [something] might have a benefit is not unscientific; asking questions is not unscientific. In fact, the beauty of science is that not only is it okay but it encourages questions that are provocative and countercurrent. This is about not making inaccurate statements that are not supported by the evidence and that mislead the public; sensational claims based on nothing compelling scientifically that confuses people. We're talking about making inaccurate scientific claims, taking an idea, taking a hypothesis and stating it as fact, that's the red flag.
Some people are extremely trusting and they will believe and even repeat what an influencer says without scrutiny, without asking for evidence. So we have to be very careful and try to be responsible with how we communicate. And this is a dilemma that we have with scientific communication in general. Scientific thinking and scientific speaking are usually very cautious. Scientists will say things like "we tested this and the results indicate that, but we haven't really checked this other thing yet, it's possible that this...". So everything is very qualified, almost fearful. And popular influencers are often the mirror opposite. Everything is very categorical, very black and white. There's no middle ground, absolute unshakable confidence. And the truth is the public often sees this style of communication as being more confident and even more knowledgeable.
-- Dr. Gil Carvalho
Yes, [virus strain] was highly contagious, and no, the vaccines didn't do much in terms of preventing spread of Covid. If it did it was minimal.
-- Dr. David Jacobs, President of the Ontario Association of Radiologists
It is clear, especially with [virus strain], the vaccines we have cannot really be relied upon to either prevent transmission or infection. An example: The first Omicron case in Israel came from a triple-vaccinated doctor returning from a conference who passed it on to another triple-vaccinated physician. With this evidence we should have moved quickly to lift heavy-handed measures and explain the evolving evidence. This is necessary for public trust. It is also good for public health to have a well-informed populace. Having a false sense of security has obvious negative consequences.
-- Dr. Shiri Kaylan, Professor of medicine at University of British Columbia
We locked ourselves down miserably for two years, absolutely pointlessly, toying with totalitarianism, copying China in essence.
-- Dr. Jordan Peterson
I'm saying it [children] was the safest group. They were the less vulnerable group and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of covid than they will from the exposure to covid. And that's not an opinion, that's a fact.
-- Dr. Phil McGraw
The actual science said they were wrong. Yet as has been so often the case during Covid policy debates, the actual science took a back seat to panic, fear, malicious coercion, and inexcusable ignorance.
-- Ian Miller
The former director of the FDA recently admitted that the Covid vaccine approvals process, which gave colleges and universities license to unnecessarily force mandates onto young people, was catastrophically and fatally flawed.
One would imagine that to risk the possible futures of their students, colleges and universities must have required clear-cut evidence that such mandates were necessary, effective, and justifiable given the epidemiological circumstances. That evidence did not exist. ... Assumptions were wildly, unimaginably wrong.
-- Ian Miller
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with 40 facts.
-- [attributed to Rumi]
Now, I was already skeptical of government command and control. But I was still surprised at how authoritarian many politicians were eager to be. Those 15 days turned into years, and the loss of our freedoms increased. It's creepy how some people are so eager to have authorities boss us around.
Let's remember politicians' incompetence, and their insatiable wish to gain power over us. Let's not give them power like that again. Nor should we trust the hysterical media, they're always eager to make life scarier than it is.
-- John Stossel
Always rationalizing ... it [is] the resilience of the duped.
-- James Randi
Human intelligence evolved less as a tool for pursuing objective truth than as a tool for pursuing personal well-being, tribal belonging, social status, and sex, and this often required the adoption of what I call ‘Fashionably Irrational Beliefs' (FIBs), which the brain has come to excel at.
An absurd ideological belief is a form of tribal signalling. It signifies that one considers their ideology more important than truth, reason, sanity. To one's allies, this is an oath of unwavering loyalty.
-- Gurwinder Bhogal
We have a a mainstream media which is dying. It's dying for a reason, and the reason is that they have discredited themselves over a long period of time by spreading things ... and driving these narratives ... that later turn out not to be true. "Why don't they believe us?" The reason people are increasingly not believing the mainstream media is the arrogance with which they have purported these lies on on on the public of the Western countries.
-- Konstantin Kisin
Covid hit and America wet itself, emptied its pockets, and curled up in a ball. Let me say I get no pleasure having to characterize my country as panicky,
inefficient, and stuck on stupid, but that's what we are. I don't see a lot of retractions being printed. When covid hit, we did a lot of stupid things, because America never reacts, it only overreacts. A lot of the dissenting opinions that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have proven to be correct. Maybe that's why the powers-that-be never wanted a covid commission.
-- Bill Maher
How ironic that in both these cases, it was the government - the body suggested by the medical leaders to be best qualified to police against 'misinformation' in healthcare - which actually fostered 'misinformation'.
-- Russ Gonnering
At the time of initial authorization of the first COVID-19 vaccines, [trade name], in December 2020, there was no reported evidence on the efficacy of the authorized COVID-19 vaccine to prevent asymptomatic infection, to reduce viral shedding or to prevent transmission.
Yasir Naqvi, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, Liberal Party of Canada
Contestation is normal in scientific discourse. Anything that cannot be questioned but relies on authority alone is dogma, not science.
-- Ramesh Thakur
If your personal beliefs deny what's objectively true about the world, then they're more accurately called personal delusions.
-- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
All the people who became fascists during covid will never admit they were wrong about everything.
-- pseudonym @He11raiser666
This scandalous shot has absolutely destroyed my trust in the medical establishment.
-- pseudonym @alexbarnett8541
-- pseudonym @sanluisflyer
Never forget the people who shamed, cajoled, and threatened you. Both public and private - never.
I don't know ANYONE who regrets NOT getting jabbed. I didnt get the jab and I'm SO GLAD!
-- pseudonym @littleskittle3982
My friends and family were so vocal about me posting of the vaccine dangers from the start. I copped so much hate and name calling. Got called a granny killer, got told to take off my tin foil hat and put down my pitch fork, got accused of spreading terrorism. Now when I post about the damage it's crickets. They got nothing to say. An apology would be nice, but I am not holding my breath.
-- pseudonym @alisonbear7114
Absolutely criminal. Yet we suffered the insults and hatred and separation for knowing inside it was not right. Apologies anyone?! None!
-- pseudonym @patricianugent4888
I remember the street interview, during lockdowns, with a British granny where she said she would rather risk death than not see her family in her last few years left.
-- pseudonym stacypastry2440
Authoritarianism has developed the technique of absorbing and using vocabularies that are associated with questioning authority, turning them into signals of allegiance to tribe, and people using those vocabularies think they're enlightened radicals when in fact they are the most abject conformists.
-- Dan Olbris
There's a very firm psychological reason why the catch phrase of the day is 'follow the science' and not 'confirm the science', 'validate the science', 'debate the science' or 'replicate the science.
-- Jason Christoff
You persuade ... through facts and argumentation. The government never attempted to do so, nor even acted as if it expected itself to do so. It simply said, from the get-go, 'Here's an expert. The expert says lock down. The expert says social distance. The expert says this is the worst, most deadly virus since the 1920s, or maybe ever. Do what the expert says or you're going to die. An expert worthy of the name shows you the PROOF — not the conclusion independent of any reasoning. A rational expert does not need guns, mandates, emotional intimidation, a compliant and dishonest media or social shaming to convince you. He only needs truth, the willingness and the ability to express it. If he can't, then he's no expert and you should ignore him.
-- Jason Christoff
Covid 'science' got everything wrong:
Transmission - wrong
PCR testing - wrong
Fatality rate / Infection Fatality Rate IFR - wrong
Lockdowns - wrong
School closures - wrong
Quarantine the healthy - wrong
Plexiglass - wrong
Social distancing - wrong
Masks - wrong
Ignoring natural immunity - wrong
Ignoring alternative treatments - wrong
Vax efficacy - wrong
Vax safety - wrong
Vax side effects ignored - wrong
Vax stays at injection site - wrong
Absolute risk reduction versus relative risk reduction - wrong
It's a pandemic of the unvaccinated - wrong
Conflating polio and other traditional vaccines with the mRNA covid injections - wrong.
How to use the scientific method - wrong
How to give informed consent - wrong
-- various attribution