Everything about covid was visual and descriptive, we watched it on our tv screens or read about its devastation in newspapers, the visual reminders followed us everywhere the government made sure of that, lest we forget. It was overwhelming, we have been manipulated for a very long time as seen by their slick propaganda, they inserted the virus as our enemy and then ran with their war theme, only this time we were at war with an invisible adversary, how convenient. We now seem to be entering the era of the virus, our invisible enemy, we will never see it unless we are told about it by our nefarious leaders, covid has been a taster at how easy the populations have been pushed into a state of fear and hysteria where they were told the enemy was all around them, even in fellow humans.
Jeffrey Tucker just wrote a piece for The Epoch Times where he argues the "Deep State" is definitely real and as nefarious as many of us think. There's no doubt - the NY Times is a key soldier for the generals who are creating the Deep State's myriad strategies and agendas. This NY Times article definitely advanced the goals of the Deep State.
Jessica's entire article is excellent. This was my favorite sentence:
“We … are expected to believe a dangerous virus was nowhere…until it was everywhere — which makes no epidemiological sense.”
I keep hoping one "truth bomb" would be so compelling and irrefutable that the masses would belatedly conclude: "We can't trust these experts and authorities anymore."
I don't know that it really matters what expose' scores a direct hit, but we need one to take out the Death Star.
Did you read my story on the capture rate of the Education complex? It's virtually 100 percent - 1.5 milllion professors are either obtuse or too afraid to say what they really think. The swamp is almost too vast to drain enough to make a difference. The purges that need to happen in "leadership" positions would be unprecedented (to say the least), meaning they (probably) won't happen. But this doesn't mean that Luke and Han and R2-D2 should just give up.
Yes, I was in grad school at UVA in 2004-2006, when the capture was ramping up. Many of the movements and ideologies that people only started to see in 2020+ were old news to us, thanks to living in Evanston, Illinois for 14 years total, til 2021.
The pattern in Illinois politics is that people have to be shamed and exposed before they are tried for crimes. It's usually a long time before that happens. Even then, we have the Mike Madigans who will probably die before justice is served.
When this sloppy directive came out from the National Vital Statistics Division on March 26, 2020, I screenshot it as proof of why we’d never know the truth. “Assumed” and “contributed to.” Organized and directed falsification?
Should "COVID-19" be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?
COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II. (See attached Guidance for Certifying COVID-19 Deaths)
My Father in Law died 4/21/20. He was on Hospice Care (ie. near death) in a memory care section of a nursing home. They said he died of Covid-19! He was maybe the 6th or 7th such death at that facility (In suburban Maryland). I am not sure if they "tested" him or not, but I am quite sure not allowing visitors, and a reduced level of care hastened his demise. So. Covid it was! not Alzheimer's, not Pneumonia, etc. At the time I bought it, because I though Covid-19 was a real thing, and that someone so frail could/would easily succumb to such a terrible virus. It clouded my judgement for a short while until I realized someone so frail would succumb to almost anything.
Your response is completely understandable and I am very sad for you and for your father-in-law. All I can think is how many times this scenario played out around the world like it was programmed. It think it was.
The Old Gray Lady loves to spin grim bedtime stories. She has a long long track record of serving up manipulative bullshit. Good holding her feet closer to the fire.
Just a minor quibble: it might be helpful to change the color scheme for Figure 3. The black and dark blue tend to blend together.
Thank you for staying on this beat. It’s a keystone.
same newspaper which ran a 4/1/20 front page article quoting the pr spokesman for the northwell hospital chain who stated that his hospitals had stopped testing patients for flu. if the reporter who wrote the article questioned it, that question didn't make it to the print edition
also the same newspaper whose 11/25/20 edition made sure to include the word "pandemic" in every single article, from the sports page to the business section and marriage announcements.
My eyes fell on an 86 yr old from NJ who "widely surmised he could have played Major League Baseball" ... huh? Has anyone at any time actually ever "widely surmised" about anything?! Back in the day, at least the NYT was well written or at least there were editors; true, that dense page would be a herculean task for a team of editors, but you get a sense, no one at the NYT saw a need to do that. The page - the entire effort, as our author here notes was part of a PsyOp and was effective as such.
Note also, it was not only at the NYTimes strata; you would be hard-pressed to find an "Alt-Media" source in 2020 which showed any clue of "operation"-in-progress. Zerohedge, which might be called mainstream Alt Media, ran streaming "real time" pandemic updates for months in the spring complete with links to prominent pandemic dashboards at J Hopkins, etc.
I surely can think of exceptions at the level of individual bloggers (Jon Rapapport from the very start) but none among media, i.e news aggregator sites of which there are many; ha! Drudge may still be pushing the latest "variant" line for all I know. My Big Med media source was reporting a "surge" in Long Covid a few days ago: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-data-long-covid-cases-surge-2024a10005vv?form=fpf
I think another not so subtle hint that left/right (a nearly 250 yr old usage); progressive/conservative are themselves snares that impede understanding and collaboration. You can read Rappaport for years and come away with very little clue as to now, if he *had* to, he would place himself on that spectrum. And come to think of it, the same can be said at this point of our own Jessica Hockkett. (Tho, it would be tricky to spend a career in public ed without any progressive affiliation). Perhaps the point is that we can see how left/right etc are useful to The Rulers even if they are not entirely devoid of content.
"Intellectual Dark Web" is new to me just now. But beware! there is a long Wikipedia entry.
For a while in 2020 I was checking the WHO's country by country numbers and putting them in a spreadsheet.
Eventually I realized that was psychologically harmful and stopped. But it was a guaranteed traffic generator to talk about covid, the more extreme stories the better, and those data dashboards were a good way to get people to keep coming back and think they knew what was happening.
I was among those who said RFK needed to avoid this since he’s been relentlessly branded a conspiracy theorist by the media but I now agree with you. He needs to call this out and shout it from the rooftops.
Yes, don't go wobbly now - especially since you were right with all your key skepticism all along. I will say Kennedy doesn't lead with his Covid and vaccine views, but if he's asked a question about his views he does go into great length defending his views. So you can't say he's retracting his views or running from them. He's just made the political calculation that basing an entire presidential campaign on those views would probably be counter-effective to. his main goal - which is to get elected.
Agreed but no one becomes more honest or more likely to seek the truth after becoming a candidate either. Politics in my opinion is where truth goes to die.
I don't know. You've got to get elected first. The libertarians won't be elected so there's zero percent chance any change will happen from that group. With Kennedy, this chance is NOT zero percent. It would be mind-blowing if someone who spent the last 20 years of his life railing against Big Pharma and vaccines - and then got elected president (where he can actually do s/t about this) ... then did absolutely nothing.
You might be right - he does nothing. But we wouldn't know until after he was elected and had served for, say, a year or two. There is one known knowable: Big Pharma and the establishment are doing everything they can to keep him from being elected .... so they must be afraid of him being elected.
On the point of privileging, or showcasing, certain causes of death, as the Times' 9-11 and covid features did, there's a very relevant paragraph from Gustave Le Bon's circa 1890 book, The Crowd:
"The epidemic of influenza, which caused the death but a few years ago of five thousand persons in Paris alone, made very little impression on the popular imagination. The reason was that this veritable hecatomb was not embodied in any visible image, but was only learnt from statistical information furnished weekly. An accident which should have caused the death of only five hundred instead of five thousand persons, but on the same day and in public, as the outcome of an accident appealing strongly to the eye, by the fall, for instance, of the Eiffel Tower, would have produced, on the contrary, an immense impression on the imagination of the crowd."
The headline of course was sensationalist, with an arbitrary number not set in context . That context would have been that in the seven or so weeks on their charts there would have been of the order of 70,000 deaths in any case, novel virus or not, and with a substantial demographic overlap.
The kicker was at the bottom, a chart showing the daily reported covid deaths. It made obvious that the death rate had been falling for more than two weeks, i.e. the worst was over. However, it was at the bottom, and unlikely ever to be seen, unlike the headline.
I concluded that it was designed as propaganda to terrify the proles, and became confirmed in my suspicion that 'they' were not being honest. All trust destroyed by a two-minute read.
As ever, brilliant carefully considered analysis. Thank You.
It is absolutely astounding that no one else has stepped up to challenge your analysis of NYC 2020 Q1-2 data, and deliver their own explanation with supporting facts.
Thank you for all you have done, asking smart Questions on behalf of all of us.
Everything about covid was visual and descriptive, we watched it on our tv screens or read about its devastation in newspapers, the visual reminders followed us everywhere the government made sure of that, lest we forget. It was overwhelming, we have been manipulated for a very long time as seen by their slick propaganda, they inserted the virus as our enemy and then ran with their war theme, only this time we were at war with an invisible adversary, how convenient. We now seem to be entering the era of the virus, our invisible enemy, we will never see it unless we are told about it by our nefarious leaders, covid has been a taster at how easy the populations have been pushed into a state of fear and hysteria where they were told the enemy was all around them, even in fellow humans.
Printing this. Ever grateful, you’re over the target.
Jeffrey Tucker just wrote a piece for The Epoch Times where he argues the "Deep State" is definitely real and as nefarious as many of us think. There's no doubt - the NY Times is a key soldier for the generals who are creating the Deep State's myriad strategies and agendas. This NY Times article definitely advanced the goals of the Deep State.
Jessica's entire article is excellent. This was my favorite sentence:
“We … are expected to believe a dangerous virus was nowhere…until it was everywhere — which makes no epidemiological sense.”
Thanks, Bill.
The basic claims of the article are unchallenged by most anti-mandate and health freedom doctors/advocates.
Long way to go.
I keep hoping one "truth bomb" would be so compelling and irrefutable that the masses would belatedly conclude: "We can't trust these experts and authorities anymore."
I don't know that it really matters what expose' scores a direct hit, but we need one to take out the Death Star.
We aren't at A New Hope yet.
Still in Rogue One.
P.S. There's more than one Death Star. Have to take out the Emperor & Crew
Did you read my story on the capture rate of the Education complex? It's virtually 100 percent - 1.5 milllion professors are either obtuse or too afraid to say what they really think. The swamp is almost too vast to drain enough to make a difference. The purges that need to happen in "leadership" positions would be unprecedented (to say the least), meaning they (probably) won't happen. But this doesn't mean that Luke and Han and R2-D2 should just give up.
Yes, I was in grad school at UVA in 2004-2006, when the capture was ramping up. Many of the movements and ideologies that people only started to see in 2020+ were old news to us, thanks to living in Evanston, Illinois for 14 years total, til 2021.
The pattern in Illinois politics is that people have to be shamed and exposed before they are tried for crimes. It's usually a long time before that happens. Even then, we have the Mike Madigans who will probably die before justice is served.
Watch Rogue One. We need more of THOSE rebels.
When this sloppy directive came out from the National Vital Statistics Division on March 26, 2020, I screenshot it as proof of why we’d never know the truth. “Assumed” and “contributed to.” Organized and directed falsification?
Should "COVID-19" be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?
COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II. (See attached Guidance for Certifying COVID-19 Deaths)
Steven Schwartz, PhD
Director - Division of Vital Statistics”
Thanks. In the future, I hope to do a post on my theory of COVID-19 as a death reclassification scheme.
My Father in Law died 4/21/20. He was on Hospice Care (ie. near death) in a memory care section of a nursing home. They said he died of Covid-19! He was maybe the 6th or 7th such death at that facility (In suburban Maryland). I am not sure if they "tested" him or not, but I am quite sure not allowing visitors, and a reduced level of care hastened his demise. So. Covid it was! not Alzheimer's, not Pneumonia, etc. At the time I bought it, because I though Covid-19 was a real thing, and that someone so frail could/would easily succumb to such a terrible virus. It clouded my judgement for a short while until I realized someone so frail would succumb to almost anything.
I am so sorry.
Denying your father the basic right to be surrounded by loved ones is pure evil.
I’ve come to expect such evil from governing authorities, sadly, but there’s no excuse for the Church’s silence on that matter.
Indeed! I thought of your comment when I read this: https://open.substack.com/pub/drclarecraig/p/reflection-on-the-last-four-years?r=jhq3f&utm_medium=ios
Your response is completely understandable and I am very sad for you and for your father-in-law. All I can think is how many times this scenario played out around the world like it was programmed. It think it was.
"The real war was psychological, waged by government & media against We the People — not epidemiological, waged by a virus."
Excellent!
Recent news that our Government employees (NIH) are looking for the royalties on their mRNA patents shows the bubble they live in.
It is long past time that we know how much money these government employees are making from the bioweapon.
The Old Gray Lady loves to spin grim bedtime stories. She has a long long track record of serving up manipulative bullshit. Good holding her feet closer to the fire.
Just a minor quibble: it might be helpful to change the color scheme for Figure 3. The black and dark blue tend to blend together.
Thank you for staying on this beat. It’s a keystone.
Good feedback, thanks.
I’ll change the colors on the graph
same newspaper which ran a 4/1/20 front page article quoting the pr spokesman for the northwell hospital chain who stated that his hospitals had stopped testing patients for flu. if the reporter who wrote the article questioned it, that question didn't make it to the print edition
also the same newspaper whose 11/25/20 edition made sure to include the word "pandemic" in every single article, from the sports page to the business section and marriage announcements.
I'll take the link to that 4/1/20 article if you have it.
Here's the head of the Northwell Labs, same subject, on a CDC call https://x.com/Wood_House76/status/1635856570545233921?s=20
My eyes fell on an 86 yr old from NJ who "widely surmised he could have played Major League Baseball" ... huh? Has anyone at any time actually ever "widely surmised" about anything?! Back in the day, at least the NYT was well written or at least there were editors; true, that dense page would be a herculean task for a team of editors, but you get a sense, no one at the NYT saw a need to do that. The page - the entire effort, as our author here notes was part of a PsyOp and was effective as such.
It's truly incredible to read news stories not only in the NYT but across U.S. and world media outlets in the first five months of 2020.
I don't see how anyone can do that and not begin to see this operation for what it was.
Note also, it was not only at the NYTimes strata; you would be hard-pressed to find an "Alt-Media" source in 2020 which showed any clue of "operation"-in-progress. Zerohedge, which might be called mainstream Alt Media, ran streaming "real time" pandemic updates for months in the spring complete with links to prominent pandemic dashboards at J Hopkins, etc.
I surely can think of exceptions at the level of individual bloggers (Jon Rapapport from the very start) but none among media, i.e news aggregator sites of which there are many; ha! Drudge may still be pushing the latest "variant" line for all I know. My Big Med media source was reporting a "surge" in Long Covid a few days ago: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-data-long-covid-cases-surge-2024a10005vv?form=fpf
Correct.
Intellectual Dark Web same (for both the progressive and conservative-leaning areas of the web)
I think another not so subtle hint that left/right (a nearly 250 yr old usage); progressive/conservative are themselves snares that impede understanding and collaboration. You can read Rappaport for years and come away with very little clue as to now, if he *had* to, he would place himself on that spectrum. And come to think of it, the same can be said at this point of our own Jessica Hockkett. (Tho, it would be tricky to spend a career in public ed without any progressive affiliation). Perhaps the point is that we can see how left/right etc are useful to The Rulers even if they are not entirely devoid of content.
"Intellectual Dark Web" is new to me just now. But beware! there is a long Wikipedia entry.
I consider myself independently rogue with libertarian leanings & basic conservative principles. I'm an asset to no side, as far as I can tell.
I am not voting for any of the three major candidates and will not be voting for anyone who held public office in 2020-2022
Ah! Admirably precise and frank language; just as we would expect.
For a while in 2020 I was checking the WHO's country by country numbers and putting them in a spreadsheet.
Eventually I realized that was psychologically harmful and stopped. But it was a guaranteed traffic generator to talk about covid, the more extreme stories the better, and those data dashboards were a good way to get people to keep coming back and think they knew what was happening.
I was among those who said RFK needed to avoid this since he’s been relentlessly branded a conspiracy theorist by the media but I now agree with you. He needs to call this out and shout it from the rooftops.
Yes, don't go wobbly now - especially since you were right with all your key skepticism all along. I will say Kennedy doesn't lead with his Covid and vaccine views, but if he's asked a question about his views he does go into great length defending his views. So you can't say he's retracting his views or running from them. He's just made the political calculation that basing an entire presidential campaign on those views would probably be counter-effective to. his main goal - which is to get elected.
No one becomes more honest or more likely to seek the truth after he becomes elected
I’m voting libertarian, but it’s pretty obvious that Team RFK’s strategy is to put off uncomfortable and impt questions until after the election.
Ridiculous
Agreed but no one becomes more honest or more likely to seek the truth after becoming a candidate either. Politics in my opinion is where truth goes to die.
I don't know. You've got to get elected first. The libertarians won't be elected so there's zero percent chance any change will happen from that group. With Kennedy, this chance is NOT zero percent. It would be mind-blowing if someone who spent the last 20 years of his life railing against Big Pharma and vaccines - and then got elected president (where he can actually do s/t about this) ... then did absolutely nothing.
You might be right - he does nothing. But we wouldn't know until after he was elected and had served for, say, a year or two. There is one known knowable: Big Pharma and the establishment are doing everything they can to keep him from being elected .... so they must be afraid of him being elected.
He is part of the establishment, no white knight.
Frankly, if I was Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post and stumbled upon this substack, I'd just quit journalism altogether.
Terrific example of propaganda. The NYT lives up to its well-deserved reputation amongst those few of us with the ability to discern truth from lies.
On the point of privileging, or showcasing, certain causes of death, as the Times' 9-11 and covid features did, there's a very relevant paragraph from Gustave Le Bon's circa 1890 book, The Crowd:
"The epidemic of influenza, which caused the death but a few years ago of five thousand persons in Paris alone, made very little impression on the popular imagination. The reason was that this veritable hecatomb was not embodied in any visible image, but was only learnt from statistical information furnished weekly. An accident which should have caused the death of only five hundred instead of five thousand persons, but on the same day and in public, as the outcome of an accident appealing strongly to the eye, by the fall, for instance, of the Eiffel Tower, would have produced, on the contrary, an immense impression on the imagination of the crowd."
This is one to save! This is a great analysis…just a shame so few will know the truth about the histrionic reporting!
Thanks for the mult-faceted critique of a journalism most yellow.
Would love to get affidavits from next-of-kin regarding listed cause of death of some of these obitees.
I saw something similar in the UK. On May 6th 2020 the BBC showed this web page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52564183
The headline of course was sensationalist, with an arbitrary number not set in context . That context would have been that in the seven or so weeks on their charts there would have been of the order of 70,000 deaths in any case, novel virus or not, and with a substantial demographic overlap.
The kicker was at the bottom, a chart showing the daily reported covid deaths. It made obvious that the death rate had been falling for more than two weeks, i.e. the worst was over. However, it was at the bottom, and unlikely ever to be seen, unlike the headline.
I concluded that it was designed as propaganda to terrify the proles, and became confirmed in my suspicion that 'they' were not being honest. All trust destroyed by a two-minute read.
"the worst was over"
The worst of what? That's the real question
Do you remember when this headline ran around May 2, 2020?
“Report: CDC Shocks Everyone With Newly Adjusted COVID-19 U.S.
Death Rate - From 60,000 to 37,000”
“The CDC just readjusted the COVID-19 death numbers. They've dropped significantly, causing many people to wonder what the heck is going on.”
Some of us knew.
Dear Jessica,
As ever, brilliant carefully considered analysis. Thank You.
It is absolutely astounding that no one else has stepped up to challenge your analysis of NYC 2020 Q1-2 data, and deliver their own explanation with supporting facts.
Thank you for all you have done, asking smart Questions on behalf of all of us.
Best,
Sean
You're welcome.
Appreciate the support, Sean.
The silence/omerta around NYC 2020 is one of the more bizarre phenomenon I've ever observed.
Follow the bodies...