Thank you both for a fine piece and for making the results of your evaluations clear. It’s very much appreciated, sincerely.
Given no pandemic (& there’s scope I think for productive exchanges on whether any pandemics are possible) it behooves us to point out some deeply unpleasant implications, for example, what the “vaccines” were intended to do.
You are aware of my assessments, which I’d love to be wrong about.
There's room for productive exchanges with respect to ALL pandemic-related questions. Part of our point here is not that there are only "three" sets of views about the COVID event (or any topic) but rather that debate has been and continues to be stifled in a way that ultimately serves the perpetrators. Your views have been "out of bounds" for Permitted Dissent for longer than most. Millions of people precede us and deserve our respect and gratitude.
I've taken quite a few hits (as has Jonathan) for publicly, critically evaluating the views of various experts who are well-liked among 'contrarians.' It is not easy to disagree with some of the more prominent personalities, nor is it easy to disagree with associates and colleagues. I trust you can appreciate that every time a person "puts pen to paper" and expresses a view that is at odds with "friends, Romans, and countrymen" it is an act of courage. I say this in the spirit of Proverbs 27:6, hoping you understand my meaning and take it to heart.
We'll show additional false binaries in part 2, including about the COVID shot. I look forward to the ongoing conversation and, as ever, am willing to change my mind as evidence and persuasive arguments compel me to do so.
Wonderful. The phrase “false binaries” is neater than anything I’d come up with though I realised relatively soon that “A or B?” was designed to prevent the thought “Neither A nor B!”
Doing anything other than going along to get along brings criticism, some of it so unpleasant that, when I first encountered it in 2020, I had no means to cope with it. That was the intention I’m sure. But after a while I determined that I couldn’t care less. That’s why I’m a team of one, happy occasionally to jog alongside others, but I’m better being a loner.
Wish we could take credit for "false binaries" but it's a longstanding term for a logical fallacy (aka, either-or fallacy, false dichotomy, false dilemma). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma and on the standard list of fallacies that (good) teachers and debate coaches tell students to avoid.
In and of themselves, dichotomies and forced dilemmas are NOT a bad thing. All debates purposely frame issues or questions as dichotomies.(Affirmative/Negative, Yes/No, In Favor/Opposed).
It's a FALSE dilemma/dichotomy that's a problem - especially (but not only) when it's being directed or purposely encouraged by governing authorities and agencies.
"A false dilemma falsely asserts that one must choose between these two options when, in reality, there may be a wider range of choices or possibilities available. This fallacy is commonly used to manipulate or limit the options of an argument, often leading to flawed conclusions or the suppression of valid alternatives." https://helpfulprofessor.com/false-dilemma-examples/
Yes, Jessica, I wrote a post in Sep 2023, 12 logical fallacies unmasked in the use of the terms "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theorist", where I use mainly the examples of 9/11 and covid. In the case of the false dilemma I only illustrate it with 9/11 simply to not have the article be too long but I recognised "Wuhan lab" immediately as propaganda for the anticipated disbelievers (although at that time I wasn't aware of how it fits into the "false binary" strategy, I only got "false binary" mid-2022 when I read Catte Black's article, the Function of the Fake Binary in Off-Guardian)
When covid "hit", I knew nothing about the already-existing controversies over the existence of viruses and the validity of germ theory, however, I knew immediately that we were being subjected to a psyop because we were being fed very obvious nonsense (Revelation of the Method) in the form of images of people falling flat on their faces and laid out on the ground and claims that a Chinese research team had found two species of snake to be "reservoirs" of the virus with this supposed research being debunked as "complete garbage" within the same article by a biosecurity specialist at Sydney University, Edward Holmes. In addition to the fact that the research was obvious garbage we also had the unreality of a public scientist speaking in a way about other scientists' research that they never would even if it was garbage.
Knowing we were being subjected to a psyop I transferred what I'd learnt from the 9/11 psyop to the covid psyop:
--- In psyops they do what they want for real and fake the rest - for 9/11 all that happened for real was the destruction of buildings, ie, controlled demolition of the WTC - planes were faked and death and injury were staged - the buildings were fully - not partly - evacuated as per standard demolition protocols
--- In big psyops there are always multiple streams of propaganda targeted to the anticipated disbelievers
So I knew IMMEDIATELY:
--- There was no virus because it was obvious they only wanted our BELIEF in a virus they didn't want a virus for real and psyops actually work better the less they correspond with reality
--- They would push out multiple streams of propaganda for the disbelievers: thus as soon as I heard "biolab" I knew that was propaganda targeted to the disbelievers
Psyops are really not that complicated but geez it's hard to get the basics out to people.
I wrote a post, 9/11: The False Dilemma propaganda strategy, Sep 2023 (https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/911-the-false-dilemma-propaganda) and another post on my website in 2020 sometime on the 9/11 and covid parallels with this text - further down I refer to the Wuhan lab stuff, don't know why I didn't in this text:
COVID-19: Global pandemic and massive response required
9/11: Terrorists crashing planes into buildings which subsequently collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people and injury to 6,000
PROPAGANDA 2 (controlled opposition) - DIRECTED TO SKEPTICS
COVID-19: Virus but not pandemic and response inappropriate. Of course, some people will naturally think there's a virus but not at pandemic levels and that the response is inappropriate, however, controlled opposition is still pushed out to propagate and curate that message. Often, controlled opposition pushes out simply what some people will think anyway but they like to have control over the message so that they can ensure as much as possible that thought doesn't drift over to the actual truth. The actual truth needs to be suppressed as much as possible.
9/11: Inside job where buildings were brought down using controlled demolition resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people and injury to 6,000
REALITY
COVID-19: No virus, no nothing, Emperor's New Clothes par excellence
9/11: Buildings were damaged and demolished (planes were faked and death and injury were staged), many drills were conducted and these drills, essentially, comprised the operation."
''The vaccines'' were intended to do'' but they came AFTER what happened in care homes. What about what those policies were doing? The ONLY way to stop more pandemic declarations and even more novel jabs is to fully expose the events from March-June 2020 not those that came after. Talking about limitied spectrum of debate that's where this and more shines a REAL light upon events and has been rarely if ever mentioned in 'COVID sceptic' circles. https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/scottish-covid-19-inquirycare-home?utm_source=publication-search
I gave dozens of interviews where my main thrust was that people were being murdered in hospitals and care homes.
I made several points which were never rebutted:
1. While I’m not a medical doctor, I’ve spent my entire professional life around pulmonology. So I am certain that a patient with an unobstructed airway & an intact chest wall should not be sedated, intubated and mechanically ventilated. This procedure is reserved for emergencies where a patient had stopped breathing due to brain injury, or for elective surgery such as on heart & lungs, treatment of severe trauma including to the chest and induced coma in severe burn victims. In those settings, its often life saving. In someone already breathing through an unobstructed airway, mechanical ventilation is a serious, net harm. It’s extremely unnatural and places great stress on lung tissue, which becomes oedematous and can progress to atelectasis and heart failure.
Additionally, patients on ventilators are incredibly vulnerable to whatever the medical staff are told to do. Most people so treated died. There was NO REASON to treat their patients like this.
I don’t recall a single pulmonologist saying any of this. It was left to a fellow with a PhD.
2. Midazolam is a anxiolytic drug of the benzodiazepines class. It has sedative effects at higher doses. Morphine is a major pain relieving drug of the opiate class. While it does greatly reduce pain, it has not proven possible to separate the pain relieving effects from other effects especially respiratory depression. People’s urge to breathe is reduced progressively with increasing dose. The combined effect of midazolam and morphine, given together, is to synergistically depress respiratory efforts. I predicted that an elderly person given these two drugs would be highly likely to fall asleep and then stop breathing. There was NO REASON to give them these two drugs. Doing so outside of a setting where their breathing was intensively monitored constituted murder, in my opinion. And I said so repeatedly. I don’t recall many if any doctors saying this publicly. My PhD was won in this area. I studied the impact of opiates of the fentanyl class on respiratory efforts.
No one else has been as explicit as I have been.
Since then, additional causes of death have been imposed on a mass population. You might have noticed that I’ve been rather consumed with this for a number of years. I don’t think there are better qualified people to have patiently explained why I was so concerned about the design of the injections. My training in mechanistic toxicology & decades working in teams on rational drug design meant I was quite certain that harms were inevitable and intentional. To this day, the vast majority of commentators either say nothing at all or even take a strongly contradictory position, without providing any grounds for their stance. I could weep.
So I do not need telling what has happened. I’ve been talking about it for five years. I might as well not have bothered.
I met a disturbed nurse who was part of a covid traveling team, went to a hospital in NJ, she said they were mostly nursing home patients and were being given overdoses of morphine shots to "clear the beds". She told me how she refused to give the shots and the doctor did it himself and later came back asking her if he did the right thing or not...
I met her because we both signed up for hours doing front door temp checks at the hospital, (she was struggling to reintegrate on her unit, told me when she shared what happened, was accused of lying)...I didn't see any sick people with elevated temperatures at the front doors during 2020 btw...
Thank you for a brilliant article. As a pandemic "denier" from day one, I have written many comments on various sites expressing my view and have rarely elicited much response. I had noticed that a number of others that denied the basic narrative were also largely ignored. It has been very frustrating in that regard but now I have a better understanding of why that is so. Thank you for helping me sort that out.
The work I was doing in health research is so 'out there' now that it would be even more difficult to discuss since Covid than before. Since Covid most people's narratives have shrunk horribly down to a small set of predictable discussions. Early on I went from one friend to another and to strangers, and every discussion was the same 3 or 4 themes. Technocrats succeeded in popping the bubble of our daily diverse conversations and corralling us down into their themes. I didnt know whether to ignore them and keep expressing myself in my own terms. My thinking is far outside their box, but they have had the control. We have to refute them on their own terms, even though their own terms are daft. How do we actually break out from that ? Persevere with our pre-covid truths ?? Its really difficult. :(
Very much so in the UK also. I have a diverse mix of friends.. including quite a few musicians who play in pubs and local halls. A tiny few continued to meet up and play music throughout. They were disapproved of and feared but it is impressive that they retained their unity. Most other bands I knew split up over this stuff, or the pubs etc closed. The defunct musicians were then having the same three conversations as everyone else.. PCR, virus, vax .. it was like brain rot :( . Many of us here learned to play the fiddle precisely because it was outlawed for so long in the past. Sad to see a repeat of that.
I've only been to London (only once, recently) but the pub culture is VERY distinct and (IMO) unlike anything we have in the U.S., at least in most parts of the country. The communal aspect is unmistakable and your description of the impact of unholy closures heartbreaking. :(
The impact on restaurant and theatre life in Chicago was awful. Unlike London (and New York), Chicago's scene still hasn't fully recovered. There are many reasons for that but it's tragic nonetheless.
It is really hard, I just mentioned Covid yesterday and how important it is to take a stand when you see things go wrong, response from my relatives... silence.
People will take a stand when they have nothing left to lose ... all 6 of them :(
It is human nature to stay quiet and hope for the best. If you recall the stories about death camps were German guards didnt understand why people went quietly when they outnumbered the guards by 10:1... people dont like to step out of turn.
Well done. There are so many "Covid rebels" now saying, "the revelations about the deep state are so shocking and will only get more shocking - the average person has no idea the depth of the exploitation, lying, propaganda and dirty tricks that have been foisted upon them." Then in the next sentence, "they are so dirty they even engineered a GOF virus to create a pandemic!" They still can't see it can they? The false binary continues to do its job.
Excellent summary guys. Covid was, as you say, ‘theatre’. In which case, why set the opening scene in Wuhan? Of all places?
Centre stage, the wet market, but with the scary WIV ominously set in the background. For dramatic effect? To encourage wild speculation and tap into fears of deadly viruses and crazed scientists? Future plot twists? All built into the script.
Where else BUT "mysterious" Wuhan? PNEUMONIA OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY!!!! (LOL)
Americans, at least, weren't scared by whatever is happening in China. Intrigued? Sure. The CCP lies though. We know this. They make a GREAT hook, however.
Italy....who DOESN'T love Italy - and Italians? Everyone does! The food, the art, the landscape, the romantic vibe...If something is happening in ITALY, it's REALLY, TRULY happening!
"New York, New York - what a wonderful town!" "Greatest city in the world!" "If you can make it [seem real] there, you can make it [seem real] everywhere!"
Perpetually under attack, isn't it (in movies and IRL)? No wonder a VIRUS BOMB dropped there!! Subways!!! Density!!! SILENT SPREAD!!!!!!
Absolutely, you guys are 100% right - it was all theatre. There never was a novel, deadly pathogen, they created the illusion of one.
The CCP lies…very useful. But there are hardly any ‘Covid’ deaths being reported in China? Well they would say that wouldn’t they…the CCP say there was no lab leak?…and you believe them?? They (China) must be hiding something?!
The perfect illustration of this is the binary option for "The source of the virus" allowed through the Overton window for consideration in polite society. This was the perfect distraction and as so often is the case, when only a binary option is allowed, both options are wrong. We can be sure that even if a virus did exist, it sure as hell didn't result from either an "accidental leak" at WIV (A BSL4 facility using a French State of the art design. Trust me, such facilities don't just "leak") OR a zoonotic leap.
We have to defund gain of function research because evil actors could unleash another pandemic.
Off Limits/Out of Bounds:
We have to defund gain of function research because the false fear of a pandemic being unleashed is the pretext by which governments overstep their bounds in the name of "protection."
I worked full time on the front lines of a major inner city hospital during "the pandemic" and didn't observe a pandemic. I saw a mostly empty hospital with a few flu-like cases among the elderly (average for the season). We were told all respiratory symptoms were Covid and the flu disappeared...
Brilliant. This is one of the most important topics to understand.
I feel you can take this even further and define the false binary as a TECHNOLOGY - a technology of perception management (AKA mind control).
Richard D Hall gave it the name 'the phoney bone of contention', which he defines as a two apparently opposing positions being used to reinforce a third (and false) underlying premise. It is the false underlying premise that locks the official narrative (and the scam) in place.
For example: Did THE virus originate from a bat, or was it manufactured from a lab?
In the above example nobody will ever think to question the word 'the'. Our attention is immediately drawn to the bat/ lab issue.
But by not questioning 'THE virus' we have automatically assumed there is a virus and that viruses are real things. And by making the 'bat vs lab' a contentious issue, and one which is politically charged, the public gets so caught up in defending their 'side' and attacking the other 'side' they do not even notice that they've automatically accepted the underlying premise of THE virus existing.
The more 'contentious' these false binary issues are ('hot topics') the more they get the adrenalin pumping - shutting down our rational brains, curiosity and imagination and making us easy prey to literally have a false reality downloaded into our brains.
This is not (just) an after-the-fact strategy. The false binary is integral to the scam and is constructed in advance and the 'seeds' are laid out right from the start. Often more than 2 false narratives are seeded, giving multiple blind alleys for people to get trapped in.
The 'lab leak' narrative was seeded right from the start of 2020 - and in fact years before with Hollywood movies (some of them funded, as it turns out, by some of the big players in vaccines).
We have seen similar false binaries being deployed for other civilisation-changing events over the past 40+ years. It's probably been going on for centuries.
What is so brilliant about this technique (this technology) is that it allows 'the topic' to be vigorously debated in the media and in the political realm, giving the illusion of free speech and open dissent, but (as you've already pointed out) all the discussion and debate stays within the confines of the false binary, which means all 'sides' are still reinforcing the false underlying premise(s) upon which the entire scam rests. So none of the so called 'mavericks' and 'dissenters' actually pose any threat to the scam.
Understanding how the false binary perception management technology works (together with an understanding of Problem - Reaction - Solution) gives the man-on-the-street entry to how society is actually run. Suddenly you can 'translate' everything you see on the media and in political debate.
Perhaps someone could produce a flow chart of questions together with some a kind of form to fill out, for people to use when watching 'the news' or political debate, or some press conference. I am serious!
What are the options (the 'sides') being laid out for me to choose from?
What underlying premise is being accepted as fact?
What other options are there (which have been left out)?
What money is to be made and by whom? (qui bono?)
What is the alleged 'problem'?
How am I being encouraged to 'react'?
What is the official 'solution' being proposed?
etc.
Finally, I think it also helps to understand this is all just dodgy salesmanship. No more and no less.
2020 was basically one enormous - and completely ridiculous - sales pitch for vaccines, theft, digital surveillance and tyranny. Tedros, Gates, Schwab, Johnson, Trump and co are basically just dodgy sales reps working for their higher ups.
If you politely interrupt a sales rep who cold calls you and ask them what it is they are selling and how much commission they will get if you buy it it 'breaks the spell' by revealing the true purpose of the conversation. In the same way, when you learn to spot the false binaries and P-R-S strategies in 'the news' it also breaks the spell of these crisis events and actually turns them into something rather farcical and pathetic.
For example, Boris Johnson is (or was) an intelligent, charming and witty man - but here he has been reduced to the most pathetic, slimy, cheesy sales rep .... (you can actually sense the internal cringe he is feeling when he delivers his scripted sales pitch for 'covid').
Seeing the humour in these sales strategies is important because they rely on being taken seriously to work. As soon as you realise a salesman (vaccine or double glazing) is actually PLAYING A GAME it levels the playing field and they no longer have the upper hand.
What distinguishes the 'awake' from the 'NPCs' is that the awake realise they are playing a game (ie they are being PLAYED in a game of deception), while the NPCs still take everything seriously and at face value.
Making light of these absurd 'false binaries' is therefore very important as a way to neutralise them. When it all starts to feel like an episode of Monty Python (in particular the 'Cheese Shop' sketch) that's a sign that the 'magic spell' has been broken.
FWIW I made a whole section on false binaries with many hilarious examples, but I can't remember where they are! But here is one example I found.
That was very useful, thank you. I had a look at the second video as directed and it is a great summary. I say that the whole COVID 19 charade was obviously a real pantomime with so many clues people had to be very blind/stupid to miss them, a test of mental competence which so many failed dismally.
The idea of false binaries AS a technology is interesting and I could probably adopt that notion rhetorically. However, any false binary exists independent of a technology, so I lean toward saying that various technologies are used to r till the soil for, sell/promote, weaponize, reward, and/or maintain a false binary.
I had to go and look up 'technology' to see if I was being too abstract. But the definition I found was:
'the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry'
So yes, I stand by my use of the word! :)
This is the 'information age' after all, and perception management (false binaries, sophistry, logical fallacies, 'fear porn', 'fake news' etc) has largely replaced organised religion, and even the pitchfork and baton as the main tool to control the masses.
We are a post enlightenment society where science (objective truth) is supposed to be the ultimate authority. This is a problem for the ruling class. They much prefer to have us back in a primitive state of superstitious fear and confusion (helpless and dependent). Creating staged or fake 'crisis' events knocks us off our feet and puts us back into that primitive state again (which is why 2020 felt like we were living in the medieval times!).
These techniques of weaponised psychology, language and group dynamics put us (the masses) into a primitive state of superstitious fear.... while the ruling class remain aloof and above it all (the puppets and the puppet masters). This equates to them occupying the higher ground at all times. Knowledge is power, and all that.
I feel this aspect of 'covid' doesn't get enough attention.
There was some talk about 'mass formation' but that doesn't even come close to describing the meticulous and calculated way the public's perception and thoughts were (and still are) controlled.
'Covid' to me was really a demonstration of sorcery - literally the casting of spells (the power of words). Through repetitive language, phrases, costumes, rituals and other paraphernalia (apps, hand washing, masks, social distancing) the public was transported to a primitive realm ... a realm of evil spirits ('viruses'), bodily possession ('cases' and even 'asymptomatic super spreaders') and magic potions ('vaccines').
The 'false binaries' were part of a whole set of linguistic and psychological tools which steered the masses' thoughts and actions.
It's so great to see other people talk about these things because understanding these techniques (demystifying the technology) is the only way to make us immune from future 'crisis' events which will rely on the same techniques, whether they are more 'pandemics' or 'alien invasions' or 'cyber pandemics' or whatever else they might have up their wizard's sleeve!
False binary/dichotomy is not scientific knowledge IMO; it can be way of distorting scientific knowledge
My fave and operational definition of a technology is "the application of scientific (or technical) knowledge that allows you to do something you could not do before, or to so something better or more quickly/efficiently than you could without it"
I prefer "technique" to "technolgy" in this instance but it's a minor point and we otherwise agree!
I am not on board with mass formation as articulated by Desmet (yes I read the book). :)
"I am not on board with mass formation as articulated by Desmet (yes I read the book)"
I didn't :)
One of my issues is that following the herd (even mindlessly) is actually a fairly logical thing to do, most of the time. If you wake up at 4am to find that most of the guests are fleeing the hotel it's probably a good idea to follow them.
The problem with events like 'covid' was that the consensus was completely fake. The 'herd' of panicking people was an illusion created by the media.
I feel one of the most powerful arguments we can make to the pro lockdown/ pro vax crowd is to point out that none of the 'elites' and 'experts' who were pushing lockdowns and vaccines onto us actually partook themselves. They spent all of 2020 having parties, affairs, holidays and conferences and then in 2021 they all made up excuses to not get the jab, or they took fake ones on camera.
Bourla didn't want to 'cut in line', Tedros refused the vax 'out of solidarity with Africa' ..... and while Fauci did get the jab in his left arm, the next day he patted his right arm when describing the 'slight soreness he felt at the injection site'. The list of high profile anti vaxxers is endless...
This means we are actually society's true conformists :)
It is the 'covid believers' and 'vax-o-holics' who are society's actual mavericks and fringe nutters. They are the ones going against the grain.
I doubt any VIP has taken a shot in the last century. Bill Gates' family doctor from the 1990's insists Gates refused to let his own children get any vaccines when they were young.
I feel that pointing out to 'normies' that THEY are society's true dissidents and non-conformists might actually scare them into taking our arguments and evidence seriously ('scare them straight' as it were). Their prime directive is, after all, to conform to the herd (a perfectly logical strategy most of the time).
This is why I don't like the idea that we are being 'independent' and 'free thinking' by rejecting the official narrative. It implies the official narrative IS the consensus - but it actually isn't. Not based on people's actual behaviour.
It's also why we should reject the label of 'freedom fighters' (fighting for individual human rights and freedoms) and make it clear we are actually fighting for 'public health and safety' (vaccines ARE the health threat).
Notions of 'public health' and 'public safety' will ALWAYS trump notions of 'individual freedom' and even 'human rights'. Being 'caring' and wanting to 'protect others' gives you the moral high ground. We need to take that moral high ground back and push the WHO off it.
That is why the media was at pains to label us as 'fanatical individualists who put their personal freedom OVER public health'. And much of the 'health freedom movement' embraced this way of framing it. It is why we are still looked down on today.
Again, it's all about how language is used to create a false reality and control everyone's perceptions. The reality is most people took the jab for increased personal freedoms (so they could go on holiday etc) and we were the ones who were actually fighting for 'public health' and 'public safety' by urging people not to take it.
Somehow the media managed to flip this reality on its head in the minds of the average normie... and they used the technique/ technology of very precise and carefully chosen language to do it.
Through LANGUAGE they framed all the issues to their advantage, essentially designing the 'battleground' (social discourse) in advance, ensuring they would always win!
(forgive long rambling comment - I find this topic so fascinating!)
People already know that, and I haven't seen that change people's minds much about whether there was a spreading virus, etc. It's helpful for reminding others that there couldn't have been anything truly dangerous, however. The Official Narrative (or, if you prefer, "Officials' Narrative) isn't predicated on their behavior. It's their Narrative regardless. Note that whenever an official got "caught" violating their own rules, there was always a "faux" mea culpa that did nothing to challenge the spreading virus trope.
Agreed that language was (and is) weaponized to the Narrative's advantage.
Totally with you on this one. It was obvious to anyone and everyone who has been actually thinking over the past few years. Maybe the task for us is to make the idea of a False Binary a household word asap.
This is such a useful thing you guys are doing even if progress with it among the MFM isn’t as fast as one would like. I firmly agree with the no Pandemic evidence and also with the claim that flimsy pseudoscience is all that supports virus theory (though the latter is not essential to the first part).
Has there ever in history NOT been an Overton Window? The difference now seems to be simply that TPTB possess especially powerful tools to shape and enforce it globally in real time.
As a commenter on another substack noted - the serpent (Satan) lied to Eve in the garden by, in effect, saying that God had given her and Adam a false dilemma - and proceeding to present one himself.
The technologies enable TPTB to do exactly as you say.
We bring our corrupt human nature with us wherever we go. We secretly wish it were true only of other people. But as someone once said regarding the human penchant for thinking novelty will solve our problem (also at root in the Garden dilemma): "Wherever ya' go... there ya' are."
Many thanks Jessica and Jonathan. It is very helpful to have this set out clearly. I had a post started myself on false binaries so you inspired me to complete it. I have linked to your post which I trust ins in order.
Thank you for putting the covid era into perspective. I ask everyone to please consider joining the cause to save 400 healthy ostriches in British Columbia Canada. Here's why: Ostrich egg antibody research could replace vaccines.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency [CFIA], after using a PCR test on 2 deceased ostriches, claimed all birds were infected with H5N1 and must be killed. Kary Mullis inventor of PCR said PCR should never be used as a tool in “the diagnosis of infectious diseases.”
CFIA requested all research documents initially pretending to save the ostriches. This research is about antibodies produced in ostrich eggs after hens are exposed to a pathogenic organism. Researchers in Japan discovered ostrich hens produce robust and important antibodies they put into their eggs to protect the next generation. There exists the possibility that research into these resilient and powerfully immune birds, after 120,000 million years have much to teach us including how to replace vaccines with natural immunity. https://www.ourgreaterdestiny.ca/p/canadian-government-buys-500000-doses
It's actually a longstanding racket and one heck of a cover story for food supply/manufacturing issues tied to the confinement and vaccination of animals we eat
We can't "catch" soemthing called "flu" from birds or pigs or bats or whatever
Imagine writing an article about no pandemic with the word 'democide' highlighted and NOT mentioning the world's only official COVID inquiry that proves this beyond doubt! Absolutley mind numbing!
With regards to the 'limiting acceptable opinion' in my experience the popular 'freedom/COVID sceptic' side is also guilty of that with heavy and CONSISTENT focus on 'COVID vaccine' harms at the expense of the irrefutable and CONFIRMED care home harms which ultimately started the 'pandemic' and is far more significant especially in terms of stopping more public health events. Exposing THIS would shatter public trust in pandemic declarations for a generation, isn't that what you want?
Thank you both for a fine piece and for making the results of your evaluations clear. It’s very much appreciated, sincerely.
Given no pandemic (& there’s scope I think for productive exchanges on whether any pandemics are possible) it behooves us to point out some deeply unpleasant implications, for example, what the “vaccines” were intended to do.
You are aware of my assessments, which I’d love to be wrong about.
Thanks, Mike.
There's room for productive exchanges with respect to ALL pandemic-related questions. Part of our point here is not that there are only "three" sets of views about the COVID event (or any topic) but rather that debate has been and continues to be stifled in a way that ultimately serves the perpetrators. Your views have been "out of bounds" for Permitted Dissent for longer than most. Millions of people precede us and deserve our respect and gratitude.
I've taken quite a few hits (as has Jonathan) for publicly, critically evaluating the views of various experts who are well-liked among 'contrarians.' It is not easy to disagree with some of the more prominent personalities, nor is it easy to disagree with associates and colleagues. I trust you can appreciate that every time a person "puts pen to paper" and expresses a view that is at odds with "friends, Romans, and countrymen" it is an act of courage. I say this in the spirit of Proverbs 27:6, hoping you understand my meaning and take it to heart.
We'll show additional false binaries in part 2, including about the COVID shot. I look forward to the ongoing conversation and, as ever, am willing to change my mind as evidence and persuasive arguments compel me to do so.
Best, JH
Wonderful. The phrase “false binaries” is neater than anything I’d come up with though I realised relatively soon that “A or B?” was designed to prevent the thought “Neither A nor B!”
Doing anything other than going along to get along brings criticism, some of it so unpleasant that, when I first encountered it in 2020, I had no means to cope with it. That was the intention I’m sure. But after a while I determined that I couldn’t care less. That’s why I’m a team of one, happy occasionally to jog alongside others, but I’m better being a loner.
Wish we could take credit for "false binaries" but it's a longstanding term for a logical fallacy (aka, either-or fallacy, false dichotomy, false dilemma). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma and on the standard list of fallacies that (good) teachers and debate coaches tell students to avoid.
In and of themselves, dichotomies and forced dilemmas are NOT a bad thing. All debates purposely frame issues or questions as dichotomies.(Affirmative/Negative, Yes/No, In Favor/Opposed).
It's a FALSE dilemma/dichotomy that's a problem - especially (but not only) when it's being directed or purposely encouraged by governing authorities and agencies.
"A false dilemma falsely asserts that one must choose between these two options when, in reality, there may be a wider range of choices or possibilities available. This fallacy is commonly used to manipulate or limit the options of an argument, often leading to flawed conclusions or the suppression of valid alternatives." https://helpfulprofessor.com/false-dilemma-examples/
Yes, Jessica, I wrote a post in Sep 2023, 12 logical fallacies unmasked in the use of the terms "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theorist", where I use mainly the examples of 9/11 and covid. In the case of the false dilemma I only illustrate it with 9/11 simply to not have the article be too long but I recognised "Wuhan lab" immediately as propaganda for the anticipated disbelievers (although at that time I wasn't aware of how it fits into the "false binary" strategy, I only got "false binary" mid-2022 when I read Catte Black's article, the Function of the Fake Binary in Off-Guardian)
https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/11-logical-fallacies-unmasked-in
https://off-guardian.org/2022/05/16/the-function-of-the-fake-binary/
When covid "hit", I knew nothing about the already-existing controversies over the existence of viruses and the validity of germ theory, however, I knew immediately that we were being subjected to a psyop because we were being fed very obvious nonsense (Revelation of the Method) in the form of images of people falling flat on their faces and laid out on the ground and claims that a Chinese research team had found two species of snake to be "reservoirs" of the virus with this supposed research being debunked as "complete garbage" within the same article by a biosecurity specialist at Sydney University, Edward Holmes. In addition to the fact that the research was obvious garbage we also had the unreality of a public scientist speaking in a way about other scientists' research that they never would even if it was garbage.
https://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/revelation-method-predictive-programming-and-prime-directive
Knowing we were being subjected to a psyop I transferred what I'd learnt from the 9/11 psyop to the covid psyop:
--- In psyops they do what they want for real and fake the rest - for 9/11 all that happened for real was the destruction of buildings, ie, controlled demolition of the WTC - planes were faked and death and injury were staged - the buildings were fully - not partly - evacuated as per standard demolition protocols
--- In big psyops there are always multiple streams of propaganda targeted to the anticipated disbelievers
So I knew IMMEDIATELY:
--- There was no virus because it was obvious they only wanted our BELIEF in a virus they didn't want a virus for real and psyops actually work better the less they correspond with reality
--- They would push out multiple streams of propaganda for the disbelievers: thus as soon as I heard "biolab" I knew that was propaganda targeted to the disbelievers
Psyops are really not that complicated but geez it's hard to get the basics out to people.
I wrote a post, 9/11: The False Dilemma propaganda strategy, Sep 2023 (https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/911-the-false-dilemma-propaganda) and another post on my website in 2020 sometime on the 9/11 and covid parallels with this text - further down I refer to the Wuhan lab stuff, don't know why I didn't in this text:
https://occamsrazorterrorevents.weebly.com/911--covid-19-the-parallels.html
"Two major propaganda streams
PROPAGANDA 1 - MAINSTREAM
COVID-19: Global pandemic and massive response required
9/11: Terrorists crashing planes into buildings which subsequently collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people and injury to 6,000
PROPAGANDA 2 (controlled opposition) - DIRECTED TO SKEPTICS
COVID-19: Virus but not pandemic and response inappropriate. Of course, some people will naturally think there's a virus but not at pandemic levels and that the response is inappropriate, however, controlled opposition is still pushed out to propagate and curate that message. Often, controlled opposition pushes out simply what some people will think anyway but they like to have control over the message so that they can ensure as much as possible that thought doesn't drift over to the actual truth. The actual truth needs to be suppressed as much as possible.
9/11: Inside job where buildings were brought down using controlled demolition resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people and injury to 6,000
REALITY
COVID-19: No virus, no nothing, Emperor's New Clothes par excellence
9/11: Buildings were damaged and demolished (planes were faked and death and injury were staged), many drills were conducted and these drills, essentially, comprised the operation."
''The vaccines'' were intended to do'' but they came AFTER what happened in care homes. What about what those policies were doing? The ONLY way to stop more pandemic declarations and even more novel jabs is to fully expose the events from March-June 2020 not those that came after. Talking about limitied spectrum of debate that's where this and more shines a REAL light upon events and has been rarely if ever mentioned in 'COVID sceptic' circles. https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/scottish-covid-19-inquirycare-home?utm_source=publication-search
I gave dozens of interviews where my main thrust was that people were being murdered in hospitals and care homes.
I made several points which were never rebutted:
1. While I’m not a medical doctor, I’ve spent my entire professional life around pulmonology. So I am certain that a patient with an unobstructed airway & an intact chest wall should not be sedated, intubated and mechanically ventilated. This procedure is reserved for emergencies where a patient had stopped breathing due to brain injury, or for elective surgery such as on heart & lungs, treatment of severe trauma including to the chest and induced coma in severe burn victims. In those settings, its often life saving. In someone already breathing through an unobstructed airway, mechanical ventilation is a serious, net harm. It’s extremely unnatural and places great stress on lung tissue, which becomes oedematous and can progress to atelectasis and heart failure.
Additionally, patients on ventilators are incredibly vulnerable to whatever the medical staff are told to do. Most people so treated died. There was NO REASON to treat their patients like this.
I don’t recall a single pulmonologist saying any of this. It was left to a fellow with a PhD.
2. Midazolam is a anxiolytic drug of the benzodiazepines class. It has sedative effects at higher doses. Morphine is a major pain relieving drug of the opiate class. While it does greatly reduce pain, it has not proven possible to separate the pain relieving effects from other effects especially respiratory depression. People’s urge to breathe is reduced progressively with increasing dose. The combined effect of midazolam and morphine, given together, is to synergistically depress respiratory efforts. I predicted that an elderly person given these two drugs would be highly likely to fall asleep and then stop breathing. There was NO REASON to give them these two drugs. Doing so outside of a setting where their breathing was intensively monitored constituted murder, in my opinion. And I said so repeatedly. I don’t recall many if any doctors saying this publicly. My PhD was won in this area. I studied the impact of opiates of the fentanyl class on respiratory efforts.
No one else has been as explicit as I have been.
Since then, additional causes of death have been imposed on a mass population. You might have noticed that I’ve been rather consumed with this for a number of years. I don’t think there are better qualified people to have patiently explained why I was so concerned about the design of the injections. My training in mechanistic toxicology & decades working in teams on rational drug design meant I was quite certain that harms were inevitable and intentional. To this day, the vast majority of commentators either say nothing at all or even take a strongly contradictory position, without providing any grounds for their stance. I could weep.
So I do not need telling what has happened. I’ve been talking about it for five years. I might as well not have bothered.
I met a disturbed nurse who was part of a covid traveling team, went to a hospital in NJ, she said they were mostly nursing home patients and were being given overdoses of morphine shots to "clear the beds". She told me how she refused to give the shots and the doctor did it himself and later came back asking her if he did the right thing or not...
I met her because we both signed up for hours doing front door temp checks at the hospital, (she was struggling to reintegrate on her unit, told me when she shared what happened, was accused of lying)...I didn't see any sick people with elevated temperatures at the front doors during 2020 btw...
Forgive the anagram, but as 'pandemics' can be 'IP den scam' perhaps this is a clue? :)
Thank you for a brilliant article. As a pandemic "denier" from day one, I have written many comments on various sites expressing my view and have rarely elicited much response. I had noticed that a number of others that denied the basic narrative were also largely ignored. It has been very frustrating in that regard but now I have a better understanding of why that is so. Thank you for helping me sort that out.
It was all a hoax including the voodoo jabs.
The work I was doing in health research is so 'out there' now that it would be even more difficult to discuss since Covid than before. Since Covid most people's narratives have shrunk horribly down to a small set of predictable discussions. Early on I went from one friend to another and to strangers, and every discussion was the same 3 or 4 themes. Technocrats succeeded in popping the bubble of our daily diverse conversations and corralling us down into their themes. I didnt know whether to ignore them and keep expressing myself in my own terms. My thinking is far outside their box, but they have had the control. We have to refute them on their own terms, even though their own terms are daft. How do we actually break out from that ? Persevere with our pre-covid truths ?? Its really difficult. :(
"Technocrats succeeded in popping the bubble of our daily diverse conversations and corralling us down into their themes."
Bingo.
One way they did this was by forbidding people from (or shaming people into) not meeting physically.
If I go to church, go to a pub/bar, see other moms on the playground, go to a concert/show, I will TALK to people about what the government is doing.
The role of taverns in the American revolution is no secret...
Very much so in the UK also. I have a diverse mix of friends.. including quite a few musicians who play in pubs and local halls. A tiny few continued to meet up and play music throughout. They were disapproved of and feared but it is impressive that they retained their unity. Most other bands I knew split up over this stuff, or the pubs etc closed. The defunct musicians were then having the same three conversations as everyone else.. PCR, virus, vax .. it was like brain rot :( . Many of us here learned to play the fiddle precisely because it was outlawed for so long in the past. Sad to see a repeat of that.
I've only been to London (only once, recently) but the pub culture is VERY distinct and (IMO) unlike anything we have in the U.S., at least in most parts of the country. The communal aspect is unmistakable and your description of the impact of unholy closures heartbreaking. :(
The impact on restaurant and theatre life in Chicago was awful. Unlike London (and New York), Chicago's scene still hasn't fully recovered. There are many reasons for that but it's tragic nonetheless.
On a related note, you may find this interesting: https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/conversation-with-a-london-server
It is really hard, I just mentioned Covid yesterday and how important it is to take a stand when you see things go wrong, response from my relatives... silence.
People will take a stand when they have nothing left to lose ... all 6 of them :(
It is human nature to stay quiet and hope for the best. If you recall the stories about death camps were German guards didnt understand why people went quietly when they outnumbered the guards by 10:1... people dont like to step out of turn.
Well done. There are so many "Covid rebels" now saying, "the revelations about the deep state are so shocking and will only get more shocking - the average person has no idea the depth of the exploitation, lying, propaganda and dirty tricks that have been foisted upon them." Then in the next sentence, "they are so dirty they even engineered a GOF virus to create a pandemic!" They still can't see it can they? The false binary continues to do its job.
WHO/5 Eyes/Gates still #winning
Excellent summary guys. Covid was, as you say, ‘theatre’. In which case, why set the opening scene in Wuhan? Of all places?
Centre stage, the wet market, but with the scary WIV ominously set in the background. For dramatic effect? To encourage wild speculation and tap into fears of deadly viruses and crazed scientists? Future plot twists? All built into the script.
Yup! Now you're tracking with us!
Where else BUT "mysterious" Wuhan? PNEUMONIA OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY!!!! (LOL)
Americans, at least, weren't scared by whatever is happening in China. Intrigued? Sure. The CCP lies though. We know this. They make a GREAT hook, however.
Italy....who DOESN'T love Italy - and Italians? Everyone does! The food, the art, the landscape, the romantic vibe...If something is happening in ITALY, it's REALLY, TRULY happening!
"New York, New York - what a wonderful town!" "Greatest city in the world!" "If you can make it [seem real] there, you can make it [seem real] everywhere!"
Perpetually under attack, isn't it (in movies and IRL)? No wonder a VIRUS BOMB dropped there!! Subways!!! Density!!! SILENT SPREAD!!!!!!
(See?) ;-)
Absolutely, you guys are 100% right - it was all theatre. There never was a novel, deadly pathogen, they created the illusion of one.
The CCP lies…very useful. But there are hardly any ‘Covid’ deaths being reported in China? Well they would say that wouldn’t they…the CCP say there was no lab leak?…and you believe them?? They (China) must be hiding something?!
that's right.
Not only did they create the illusion of a spreading pathogen using testing, they appear to have created the illusion of unprecedented mass casualty events in at least two places. https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/yes-we-believe-the-bergamo-italy
They could not make it (on the scale they needed), so they had to "fake" it?
…scene 2: Rural, northern Italy (it’s coming…). Scene 3: OMG NYC!
And just look how many Chinese are employed there! And they travel…🦠
The perfect illustration of this is the binary option for "The source of the virus" allowed through the Overton window for consideration in polite society. This was the perfect distraction and as so often is the case, when only a binary option is allowed, both options are wrong. We can be sure that even if a virus did exist, it sure as hell didn't result from either an "accidental leak" at WIV (A BSL4 facility using a French State of the art design. Trust me, such facilities don't just "leak") OR a zoonotic leap.
Permitted/Promoted Dissent:
We have to defund gain of function research because evil actors could unleash another pandemic.
Off Limits/Out of Bounds:
We have to defund gain of function research because the false fear of a pandemic being unleashed is the pretext by which governments overstep their bounds in the name of "protection."
Well done, yes.
Working on Part 2, and I think we have something like this already but will check
Thanks, Tonya!
I worked full time on the front lines of a major inner city hospital during "the pandemic" and didn't observe a pandemic. I saw a mostly empty hospital with a few flu-like cases among the elderly (average for the season). We were told all respiratory symptoms were Covid and the flu disappeared...
Can I ask: what city?
Denver
Brilliant. This is one of the most important topics to understand.
I feel you can take this even further and define the false binary as a TECHNOLOGY - a technology of perception management (AKA mind control).
Richard D Hall gave it the name 'the phoney bone of contention', which he defines as a two apparently opposing positions being used to reinforce a third (and false) underlying premise. It is the false underlying premise that locks the official narrative (and the scam) in place.
For example: Did THE virus originate from a bat, or was it manufactured from a lab?
In the above example nobody will ever think to question the word 'the'. Our attention is immediately drawn to the bat/ lab issue.
But by not questioning 'THE virus' we have automatically assumed there is a virus and that viruses are real things. And by making the 'bat vs lab' a contentious issue, and one which is politically charged, the public gets so caught up in defending their 'side' and attacking the other 'side' they do not even notice that they've automatically accepted the underlying premise of THE virus existing.
The more 'contentious' these false binary issues are ('hot topics') the more they get the adrenalin pumping - shutting down our rational brains, curiosity and imagination and making us easy prey to literally have a false reality downloaded into our brains.
This is not (just) an after-the-fact strategy. The false binary is integral to the scam and is constructed in advance and the 'seeds' are laid out right from the start. Often more than 2 false narratives are seeded, giving multiple blind alleys for people to get trapped in.
The 'lab leak' narrative was seeded right from the start of 2020 - and in fact years before with Hollywood movies (some of them funded, as it turns out, by some of the big players in vaccines).
We have seen similar false binaries being deployed for other civilisation-changing events over the past 40+ years. It's probably been going on for centuries.
What is so brilliant about this technique (this technology) is that it allows 'the topic' to be vigorously debated in the media and in the political realm, giving the illusion of free speech and open dissent, but (as you've already pointed out) all the discussion and debate stays within the confines of the false binary, which means all 'sides' are still reinforcing the false underlying premise(s) upon which the entire scam rests. So none of the so called 'mavericks' and 'dissenters' actually pose any threat to the scam.
Understanding how the false binary perception management technology works (together with an understanding of Problem - Reaction - Solution) gives the man-on-the-street entry to how society is actually run. Suddenly you can 'translate' everything you see on the media and in political debate.
Perhaps someone could produce a flow chart of questions together with some a kind of form to fill out, for people to use when watching 'the news' or political debate, or some press conference. I am serious!
What are the options (the 'sides') being laid out for me to choose from?
What underlying premise is being accepted as fact?
What other options are there (which have been left out)?
What money is to be made and by whom? (qui bono?)
What is the alleged 'problem'?
How am I being encouraged to 'react'?
What is the official 'solution' being proposed?
etc.
Finally, I think it also helps to understand this is all just dodgy salesmanship. No more and no less.
2020 was basically one enormous - and completely ridiculous - sales pitch for vaccines, theft, digital surveillance and tyranny. Tedros, Gates, Schwab, Johnson, Trump and co are basically just dodgy sales reps working for their higher ups.
If you politely interrupt a sales rep who cold calls you and ask them what it is they are selling and how much commission they will get if you buy it it 'breaks the spell' by revealing the true purpose of the conversation. In the same way, when you learn to spot the false binaries and P-R-S strategies in 'the news' it also breaks the spell of these crisis events and actually turns them into something rather farcical and pathetic.
For example, Boris Johnson is (or was) an intelligent, charming and witty man - but here he has been reduced to the most pathetic, slimy, cheesy sales rep .... (you can actually sense the internal cringe he is feeling when he delivers his scripted sales pitch for 'covid').
https://odysee.com/@CoronaStudies:3/coronastudiestrailer1:5
Seeing the humour in these sales strategies is important because they rely on being taken seriously to work. As soon as you realise a salesman (vaccine or double glazing) is actually PLAYING A GAME it levels the playing field and they no longer have the upper hand.
What distinguishes the 'awake' from the 'NPCs' is that the awake realise they are playing a game (ie they are being PLAYED in a game of deception), while the NPCs still take everything seriously and at face value.
Making light of these absurd 'false binaries' is therefore very important as a way to neutralise them. When it all starts to feel like an episode of Monty Python (in particular the 'Cheese Shop' sketch) that's a sign that the 'magic spell' has been broken.
FWIW I made a whole section on false binaries with many hilarious examples, but I can't remember where they are! But here is one example I found.
Skip to 2hrs 5mins....
https://odysee.com/@CoronaStudies:3/THE-GREAT-NARRATIVE:6
I truly believe that by learning to spot them and make light of them we take all the wind out of their sales .... I mean sails :)
That was very useful, thank you. I had a look at the second video as directed and it is a great summary. I say that the whole COVID 19 charade was obviously a real pantomime with so many clues people had to be very blind/stupid to miss them, a test of mental competence which so many failed dismally.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/the-great-covid-retest?utm_source=publication-search
By the way, that clip of Klaus 'You will own nothing and be happy or else' Schwab' amused me.
He mentions 'The great narrative' which anagrams to 'arr vintage theatre' which sums it up.
I like the fact he says '...you have imagine the future...' at which point the video cuts to the idiots in their masks!
Appreciate the compliment.
The idea of false binaries AS a technology is interesting and I could probably adopt that notion rhetorically. However, any false binary exists independent of a technology, so I lean toward saying that various technologies are used to r till the soil for, sell/promote, weaponize, reward, and/or maintain a false binary.
I had to go and look up 'technology' to see if I was being too abstract. But the definition I found was:
'the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry'
So yes, I stand by my use of the word! :)
This is the 'information age' after all, and perception management (false binaries, sophistry, logical fallacies, 'fear porn', 'fake news' etc) has largely replaced organised religion, and even the pitchfork and baton as the main tool to control the masses.
We are a post enlightenment society where science (objective truth) is supposed to be the ultimate authority. This is a problem for the ruling class. They much prefer to have us back in a primitive state of superstitious fear and confusion (helpless and dependent). Creating staged or fake 'crisis' events knocks us off our feet and puts us back into that primitive state again (which is why 2020 felt like we were living in the medieval times!).
These techniques of weaponised psychology, language and group dynamics put us (the masses) into a primitive state of superstitious fear.... while the ruling class remain aloof and above it all (the puppets and the puppet masters). This equates to them occupying the higher ground at all times. Knowledge is power, and all that.
I feel this aspect of 'covid' doesn't get enough attention.
There was some talk about 'mass formation' but that doesn't even come close to describing the meticulous and calculated way the public's perception and thoughts were (and still are) controlled.
'Covid' to me was really a demonstration of sorcery - literally the casting of spells (the power of words). Through repetitive language, phrases, costumes, rituals and other paraphernalia (apps, hand washing, masks, social distancing) the public was transported to a primitive realm ... a realm of evil spirits ('viruses'), bodily possession ('cases' and even 'asymptomatic super spreaders') and magic potions ('vaccines').
The 'false binaries' were part of a whole set of linguistic and psychological tools which steered the masses' thoughts and actions.
It's so great to see other people talk about these things because understanding these techniques (demystifying the technology) is the only way to make us immune from future 'crisis' events which will rely on the same techniques, whether they are more 'pandemics' or 'alien invasions' or 'cyber pandemics' or whatever else they might have up their wizard's sleeve!
False binary/dichotomy is not scientific knowledge IMO; it can be way of distorting scientific knowledge
My fave and operational definition of a technology is "the application of scientific (or technical) knowledge that allows you to do something you could not do before, or to so something better or more quickly/efficiently than you could without it"
I prefer "technique" to "technolgy" in this instance but it's a minor point and we otherwise agree!
I am not on board with mass formation as articulated by Desmet (yes I read the book). :)
"I am not on board with mass formation as articulated by Desmet (yes I read the book)"
I didn't :)
One of my issues is that following the herd (even mindlessly) is actually a fairly logical thing to do, most of the time. If you wake up at 4am to find that most of the guests are fleeing the hotel it's probably a good idea to follow them.
The problem with events like 'covid' was that the consensus was completely fake. The 'herd' of panicking people was an illusion created by the media.
I feel one of the most powerful arguments we can make to the pro lockdown/ pro vax crowd is to point out that none of the 'elites' and 'experts' who were pushing lockdowns and vaccines onto us actually partook themselves. They spent all of 2020 having parties, affairs, holidays and conferences and then in 2021 they all made up excuses to not get the jab, or they took fake ones on camera.
Bourla didn't want to 'cut in line', Tedros refused the vax 'out of solidarity with Africa' ..... and while Fauci did get the jab in his left arm, the next day he patted his right arm when describing the 'slight soreness he felt at the injection site'. The list of high profile anti vaxxers is endless...
This means we are actually society's true conformists :)
It is the 'covid believers' and 'vax-o-holics' who are society's actual mavericks and fringe nutters. They are the ones going against the grain.
I doubt any VIP has taken a shot in the last century. Bill Gates' family doctor from the 1990's insists Gates refused to let his own children get any vaccines when they were young.
I feel that pointing out to 'normies' that THEY are society's true dissidents and non-conformists might actually scare them into taking our arguments and evidence seriously ('scare them straight' as it were). Their prime directive is, after all, to conform to the herd (a perfectly logical strategy most of the time).
This is why I don't like the idea that we are being 'independent' and 'free thinking' by rejecting the official narrative. It implies the official narrative IS the consensus - but it actually isn't. Not based on people's actual behaviour.
It's also why we should reject the label of 'freedom fighters' (fighting for individual human rights and freedoms) and make it clear we are actually fighting for 'public health and safety' (vaccines ARE the health threat).
Notions of 'public health' and 'public safety' will ALWAYS trump notions of 'individual freedom' and even 'human rights'. Being 'caring' and wanting to 'protect others' gives you the moral high ground. We need to take that moral high ground back and push the WHO off it.
That is why the media was at pains to label us as 'fanatical individualists who put their personal freedom OVER public health'. And much of the 'health freedom movement' embraced this way of framing it. It is why we are still looked down on today.
Again, it's all about how language is used to create a false reality and control everyone's perceptions. The reality is most people took the jab for increased personal freedoms (so they could go on holiday etc) and we were the ones who were actually fighting for 'public health' and 'public safety' by urging people not to take it.
Somehow the media managed to flip this reality on its head in the minds of the average normie... and they used the technique/ technology of very precise and carefully chosen language to do it.
Through LANGUAGE they framed all the issues to their advantage, essentially designing the 'battleground' (social discourse) in advance, ensuring they would always win!
(forgive long rambling comment - I find this topic so fascinating!)
Re the elites
People already know that, and I haven't seen that change people's minds much about whether there was a spreading virus, etc. It's helpful for reminding others that there couldn't have been anything truly dangerous, however. The Official Narrative (or, if you prefer, "Officials' Narrative) isn't predicated on their behavior. It's their Narrative regardless. Note that whenever an official got "caught" violating their own rules, there was always a "faux" mea culpa that did nothing to challenge the spreading virus trope.
Agreed that language was (and is) weaponized to the Narrative's advantage.
Thank you...love the Boris J part of the above linked video ("snot smoothies"!).
Totally with you on this one. It was obvious to anyone and everyone who has been actually thinking over the past few years. Maybe the task for us is to make the idea of a False Binary a household word asap.
This is such a useful thing you guys are doing even if progress with it among the MFM isn’t as fast as one would like. I firmly agree with the no Pandemic evidence and also with the claim that flimsy pseudoscience is all that supports virus theory (though the latter is not essential to the first part).
Has there ever in history NOT been an Overton Window? The difference now seems to be simply that TPTB possess especially powerful tools to shape and enforce it globally in real time.
Correct
There is nothing new under the sun.
As a commenter on another substack noted - the serpent (Satan) lied to Eve in the garden by, in effect, saying that God had given her and Adam a false dilemma - and proceeding to present one himself.
The technologies enable TPTB to do exactly as you say.
That includes with Substack, unfortunately.
We bring our corrupt human nature with us wherever we go. We secretly wish it were true only of other people. But as someone once said regarding the human penchant for thinking novelty will solve our problem (also at root in the Garden dilemma): "Wherever ya' go... there ya' are."
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:9
“There is no one righteous, not even one." - Romans 3:10
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." - Romans 3:23
AMEN!!!!! Nice to meet you, sista. Keep doin' what you're doin'.
Many thanks Jessica and Jonathan. It is very helpful to have this set out clearly. I had a post started myself on false binaries so you inspired me to complete it. I have linked to your post which I trust ins in order.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/the-nature-of-false-binaries
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/wuhan-flu?utm_source=publication-search
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/gain-of-function-and-anthony-fauci?utm_source=publication-search
Thank you for putting the covid era into perspective. I ask everyone to please consider joining the cause to save 400 healthy ostriches in British Columbia Canada. Here's why: Ostrich egg antibody research could replace vaccines.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency [CFIA], after using a PCR test on 2 deceased ostriches, claimed all birds were infected with H5N1 and must be killed. Kary Mullis inventor of PCR said PCR should never be used as a tool in “the diagnosis of infectious diseases.”
03:34 mins https://youtu.be/ZmZft4fXhQQ
CFIA requested all research documents initially pretending to save the ostriches. This research is about antibodies produced in ostrich eggs after hens are exposed to a pathogenic organism. Researchers in Japan discovered ostrich hens produce robust and important antibodies they put into their eggs to protect the next generation. There exists the possibility that research into these resilient and powerfully immune birds, after 120,000 million years have much to teach us including how to replace vaccines with natural immunity. https://www.ourgreaterdestiny.ca/p/canadian-government-buys-500000-doses
Yep.
I am onto this scam and am keeping track. TY
It's actually a longstanding racket and one heck of a cover story for food supply/manufacturing issues tied to the confinement and vaccination of animals we eat
We can't "catch" soemthing called "flu" from birds or pigs or bats or whatever
Decades of lies
Imagine writing an article about no pandemic with the word 'democide' highlighted and NOT mentioning the world's only official COVID inquiry that proves this beyond doubt! Absolutley mind numbing!
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/scottish-covid-19-inquiryclosing
With regards to the 'limiting acceptable opinion' in my experience the popular 'freedom/COVID sceptic' side is also guilty of that with heavy and CONSISTENT focus on 'COVID vaccine' harms at the expense of the irrefutable and CONFIRMED care home harms which ultimately started the 'pandemic' and is far more significant especially in terms of stopping more public health events. Exposing THIS would shatter public trust in pandemic declarations for a generation, isn't that what you want?
This two-part series exposes malfeasance in care homes in Australia.
https://www.shiftedparadigms.org/p/sedation-not-salvation
https://www.shiftedparadigms.org/p/sedation-not-salvation-part-2