The
silencing, de-platforming, and censorship we are seeing is a natural outgrowth
of the leftwing takeover of education that began in the 1960s. From kindergarten to graduate school, with
rare exceptions, thinking skills have been replaced by indoctrination. I was taught how to think critically from the
9th grade upward. Today, only
a few students in graduate school (mostly law students), get any of this. The rest are instructed only on the correct
ideas and values to hold.
(This
is why, for example, you never have an argument about abortion, despite the
fact it has been the most contested moral issue in America for fifty
years. Those who support an unfettered
right to abortion simply KNOW it is the right opinion to have but cannot rebut
the arguments of those who disagree, so the discussion never takes place. If cornered, they may scream “A woman’s right
to choose!” at you, but that’s all they’ve got.)
But this
indoctrination works only when the students, or the adults they become, know
where to look for further instruction about what to think. As long as their only sources of information
are Rachel Maddow, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the like, it
will be easy to maintain discipline in the ranks.
The
problem is that in a pluralistic society, adults will sometimes wander off the
reservation. They won’t always fall
asleep to Steven Colbert or watch The View in the break room while they’re
eating lunch. Sometimes, they will
stumble across a podcast from Joe Rogan or Russell Brand, or click on a link
with information about injuries and deaths caused by COVID vaccines. Or they might find themselves reading about
Democratic pedophilia pizza shops. Then
what are they supposed to do? They have
been given no intellectual tools with which to distinguish between “acceptable”
views, the arguments of responsible dissenters, and the rantings of lunatics.
And
that is why we are seeing censorship and the shutting down of discussion before
a debate can even get started. Only the
“acceptable” views can be freely disseminated.
Everything else becomes “misinformation,” a concept of very recent
vintage. And everyone who supports the
New Normal reality must support the censorship as well. The federal government, other levels and
agencies of government, broadcast networks, social media, newspapers, and even
entertainment companies must prevent any information that conflicts with the
narrative from reaching the brains of the previously indoctrinated, because the
indoctrinated just might believe it.
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From an
obituary for Ninetyfive South Stewart, in the Philadelphia Inquirer on February
8, 2022:
“Mr. Stewart was born at the Dover Toll Plaza in
Delaware on I-95 South on May 22, 1991. The family was headed to North Carolina
when his mother, Patricia Faison Boyer, started going into labor in the car. No
one knew she was pregnant.”
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It may
be wishful thinking, but I am beginning to see cracks in the COVID madness of
masks and vaccine mandates and closed schools and lockdowns. There seems to be a bit of leakage in the
united front of media, totalitarian politicians, and media.
Admissions
that cloth and paper masks don’t really work is being reported in the U.S.’s
government-controlled media. Imagine
that! There was a grudging statement
from CDC Director Wallensky that maybe not all the 16 billion COVID deaths in
America were actually caused by the
virus. All these revelations (which we
have known since the madness began but which could not be spoken out loud), are
now being gently suggested in places like CNN and NBC and the NYT.
There
are many states and countries that are dropping virtually all COVID restrictions. Places that have lived through brutal
lockdowns for almost two years are opening up.
Denmark, Norway, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and France are dropping
all their mandates.
And
then there is Justin Trudeau, of course.
And there is New York City and Los Angeles and Italy and Australia and
New Zealand, where there is still little evidence that freedom will ever be
returned to the citizens.
The
contrasts can be startling. In
Philadelphia schools, mask mandates for school students are being made more
stringent, and ordinary cloth masks will no longer be permitted. Meanwhile, fifty miles away, the state of
Delaware is ending its mask mandates for students entirely. The store where I work is in Philadelphia
County, on the border with Montgomery County.
I must be masked all day while I am working, and the vast majority of
customers are also masked, since it is required in Philly. Across the street in Montgomery County, there
is no mask requirement and no more than half the people in stores wear them. Also, while I am not permitted to eat in a
Philadelphia restaurant, I can walk across the street to any number of fine
bars and restaurants.
This
world of absurd contrasts will go on for some time, and there is no way to
predict how it will end. The worst of
the authoritarians (e.g., Trudeau), will not give up easily. This was their dream, and they almost got
there. They want everyone’s medical information digitized, they want a cashless society, they want complete control of the flow of
information, they want the Great
Reset, they want fewer people on
earth, they want fossil fuels banned,
they want free elections to end, and they
want a Chinese-style social credit
system.
But it
is hard to see how this dichotomy can persist forever. There has never been any basis for masking or
lockdowns or mandates or forced vaccinations, and an increasing percentage of
the population is beginning to realize it.
The government officials who lied to us for two years and the people who
believed everything they were told on TV have to be given a face-saving way to
ease out of their fanaticism, but that process seems to be underway. The “science” is changing, or something. “Some mistakes were made” often seems to work
in these situations. Then there’s plenty
of finger-pointing options. “I believed
the experts.” “I trusted the CDC.” “I
was merely acting out of an abundance of caution.” And, of course: “I just wanted to protect the
children.”
I am
hopeful that the totalitarians will be unable to retain their power and that
people like Fauci and Biden and B.J and Newsom and Trudeau and Bill Gates will
quietly fade from public view, unable to inflict their next anointed vision of the
perfect society upon us, but maybe that is too much to expect. I will be satisfied if they simply go away
for a while. They may have little
choice. Soon, their only option to
maintain the campaign will be to start gunning down people in the streets, and
they do not have enough police or soldiers who would go along with such a
program.
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Up
until about twenty years ago, I never saw a kitchen without a calendar on the
wall. Now the practice seems to have
been relegated strictly to geezers.
Phones? Apps?
Whatever…. Just get off my grass.
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All you
have to do to cure yourself of the dream of a cashless society is look at what
happened in the Canadian protests.
People around the world contributed $9 million through GoFundMe to
support the truckers protesting Trudeau’s mandates, but once GoFundMe had the
money, they announced they would not direct it to the protesters. Instead, they would give it to other
charities, of their choosing.
This is
exactly what will happen in a cashless society if the government doesn’t like
what you are doing with your money. They
will disappear it.
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For me,
the most annoying aspect of the COVID madness at the moment is the effort to
rescue the obedience rituals around walking around with a diaper strapped to
your face (AND your two-year-old’s face!).
I understand that so much effort went into telling us, every 47 minutes,
how important it is to wear a mask that we cannot expect the cult will suddenly
drop the masking narrative. Cognitive
dissonance is real. The people who
pushed this, and actually believed
it, will never admit they were taken in or mistaken. Their heads would explode. They will need a face-saving explanation for
why masking was a matter of life and death for two years and now is, sort-of,
well, never mind….
So find
one. Find a way to explain to yourselves
why you joined this cult and why we shouldn’t believe you will fall in with the
next iteration of Charlie Manson when he appears.
But the
current effort is pitiful. It started
with the suggestion (I think it came from Fauci himself), that you would be
much safer if you wore two masks, or three!
(There is a cashier at my big-box store who wears two masks and a plastic face shield for eight
hours a day. Still.) There are not very
many people who want to do that, so now we are hearing that N-95 masks are the
ticket.
The shifting mask story reminds me a bit of Nixon's
"limited hang-out" strategy in Watergate. After months of lying
about everything, he decided that the official White House narrative would
admit some of the lesser allegations so that he and his boys could appear to be
at least somewhat honest and transparent. "Stonewalling" wasn't
working very well, so he decided to give "limited hang-out" a
try. In a similar way, we are now in the "well yeah, those cloth
masks don't do much but these N95 thingies REALLY stop the rona" phase.
We all know how well “limited hang-out” worked, and the
attempts to save the mask narrative are not likely to succeed either.
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As U.S.
State Department spokesmen and Biden flacks daily crank up the rhetoric about
troop movements and Russian false flag operations, I’m sensing a “wag the dog”
odor about this imminent Putin invasion of the Ukraine.
Are the
Ukies as worried about a Russian invasion as CNN is? I wonder.
It wouldn’t be the first time
that a failing president, like Biden, tried to excite hatred against some bad
guy in another country.
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I have
written about the lethal consequences of our government’s ban on COVID
treatments in pursuit of its all-vaccines-all-the-time initiative. It will be a long time before America’s
doctors are forgiven for abandoning their responsibility as clinicians and
passively accepting demands from public health officialdom that doctors not
treat their patients.
Banning
early treatments for COVID was a Fauci/CDC initiative that Trump went along
with. The nation’s public health
declaration that there was no effective treatment for minimally-symptomatic
COVID cases had three obvious effects.
First, the level of terror in the citizenry was ratchetted upwards since
no one who contracted COVID would even be permitted to see their family
doctor. The only treatment they might
receive would be in a hospital once they were so sick that any treatment might
come too late. Second, many of the
people who could have been saved by early treatment would die from the virus. And finally, once the vaccines were approved,
the population would fight each other to get them because of their increased
fear and their lack of any alternative treatments.
There was
an additional, little reported, reason for Fauci and the CDC to ban early
treatment of COVID, however, and it is buried in the Code of Federal
Regulations.
Under
FDA regulations, it can take a decade for a new medicine or vaccine to be
finally approved for use in the general population, mostly because required
“Phase III trials” can take years to complete.
The alternative to full approval, however, is an Emergency Use
Authorization (“EUA”), which permits use without completion of the full range
of Phase III tests.
As the
FDA states in “Emergency Use Authorization for Vaccines Explained,” published 11/20/20:
“Under an EUA, FDA may
allow the use of unapproved medical products, or unapproved uses of approved
medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or
life-threatening diseases or conditions when certain statutory criteria have
been met, including that there are no
adequate, approved, and available alternatives.” (Emphasis added.)
This requirement, that emergency use can only be approved
if there is no alternative treatment, has been in place for many years. Long before COVID, in January 1998, the FDA
published “Emergency Use of an Investigational Drug or Biologic,” which
provided:
“Emergency use is
defined as the use of an investigational drug or biological product with a
human subject in a life-threatening situation in which no standard acceptable
treatment is available….”
Prior to
COVID, no new vaccine had ever been approved for an Emergency Use Authorization. Under the procedures applied to all previous
new vaccines, FDA approval for COVID vaccines would not have occurred until
about 2026 at the earliest. But after
less than a year of R & D and clinical trials, Pfizer’s application for the
first-ever vaccine EUA was submitted on November 20, 2020, and granted three
weeks later. It would not have happened
had American doctors been permitted to treat COVID patients (with
hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, for example), because then “standard
acceptable treatments” would have existed, and no EUA could have been granted.
Over the past 23 months, there have been many thousands,
perhaps tens of thousands, of people who tested positive for COVID, isolated
themselves at home for a week or so with
no treatment until they became so sick they were admitted to a hospital,
and died there. We have no idea how many
of these deaths there were, but we can be certain that many of them would still
be alive if American doctors had been permitted to treat them with drugs and
other therapies before they became so ill they could not be saved. Fauci and the CDC, with Trump’s approval,
deemed these deaths an acceptable price to pay for their campaign to scare
Americans, circumvent established practices for the FDA approval of vaccines,
and force all of us to get the shots.
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Much of my skepticism about COVID pronouncements from the
government and (usually unnamed) “experts” probably comes from my earliest glimpses
of authority in school.
I am referring specifically to the Fire Marshal. And here’s my question: did you ever actually
SEE a Fire Marshal? Yet this person
seemed to be the source of virtually all arbitrary and pointless rules.
Q: Why do we have to walk halfway around the building to
get in the cafeteria? Why can’t we use
the cafeteria doors?
A: The Fire Marshal says those doors must remain locked at
all times.
Q: Why can’t I sit in that
section of the auditorium?
A: The Fire Marshal has decided it is unsafe for you to sit
there.
Q: Why can’t I smoke my Marlboros in the Boy’s Room?
A: The Fire Marshal says only crack may be smoked in the
Boy’s Room. Tobacco-smoking is only
permitted in the Teacher’s Lounge or at least ten feet outside of school
property.
Q: I want to write the Fire Marshal a letter about all his
stupid rules. What’s his address?
A: The Fire Marshal doesn’t read letters from little
boys. He’s much too busy saving people.
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