The "Ghost Story Metaphor" for What Happened in 2020
Maryam Ebadi's metaphor is a good bridge between an entirely staged event and a genuine pandemic event
Although I believe the “pandemic” of 2020 was entirely staged, I appreciate other theories about what happened that involve less strategy, slightly less evil, and more idiocy. Maryam Ebadi’s insightful “ghost story” metaphor fits the bill perfectly and is similar to the “Preparing for an Impossible Forest Fire” analogy I’ve used.
I first heard her comparison when she & I were in the
Slack channel in 2023. She hasn’t written about it at length publicly but captured her thoughts via email in response to my request. It’s reproduced below with slight changes and her approval.“Telling Pandemic Ghost Stories” as an explanation for what occurred in early 2020
Consider the scene of teenagers telling each other ghost stories at night around a campfire. Any sound from surrounding woods or loud crackle-snap from the blaze is startling and triggers all sorts of ghoulish things in their imaginations.
Some scientists in the field had been telling themselves and one other “Pandemic Ghost Stories” for at least 20 years — to the extent of running drills on an international scale with military and intelligence involved.1
If we put aside the actual perpetrators of whatever was planned (or leaked or whatever), countless scientists and doctors from around the world who witnessed the story-telling, but were not party to the central planning, would have been poised and easily fooled by crackles that suggested a deadly virus. In that respect, Covid was a ghoulish phantom that seemed all too real, at least for a few months, to help the global reaction take place with a good degree of synchronisation. You could perhaps call this a 'nudge' for the scientific and medical community.
The psychology of some of the people involved in PREDICT, etc. may also provide more clues. A behavioural scientist would have a field day looking into what happened to the scientific and medical community.
I personally think there was a crackle (a reasonably unique but benign virus strand) and so it does not matter what you think the origin was. It still applies if people agree it was used for a whole-of-society coup.
Jessica’s Note: One clear example of a pandemic ghost story is “The Unacceptable Risks of a Man-Made Pandemic” by Lynn Klotz and Edward Sylvester (August 2012).
I doubt the people who become public health officials spend their high school and college years envisioning themselves running restaurant inspections, issuing food recalls when a pathogen is found in one production batch, and issuing the standard yearly call to get the flu shot.
Covid, for senior staffers like Fauci, would've struck them as "the pandemic we've been preparing for all our lives." Their one great opportunity to be public health heroes.
There's a book, The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov. He describes how North Korea's teachers have false knowledge, because the Kim regime commands them to pass manufactured lies on to their students. Things such as made-up tales about the youthful heroism of Kim Il Sung.