The Covid Lords, five years on
While the response to covid has been dismal for five years, I believe we will be done with it five years from now. The generation now in its infancy may be the last to suffer infection during their lives from any form of airborne illness.

They still want you infected. They will not stop
There have been some articles lately marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the covid outbreak. There is enough nonsense to correct about it, to be worth my while to write this.
The dumbest tropes surrounding this are the idea that the lockdown was unnecessary, an overreaction, an excuse for the forces of evil to do whatever, a violation of civil liberties, and so on. These are the biggest collection of right reactions to wrong issues that you will ever find.
The more astute observations are on the lines of the harm done by the incompetent official reactions to the pandemic. At the centre of this is the really strange fixation on ‘droplet’ as opposed to ‘airborne’. This is what really ‘broke the world’, as one article put it.
Of course, behind all this can be seen some very sinister influences. The world public health systems did not just sabotage themselves. They were sabotaged from outside.
The two vectors behind this phenomenon are the same ones which seem to be behind most of the evil in the world. We have the industrial, fascist, libertarian nationalist capitalists who wanted us all infected so we would get ‘herd immunity’. Then we have the financial, globalist, Nazi, fake left and ideological liberal capitalists who also want us infected, but for Malthusian/Huxleyan purposes.
Most people who have not been reading my stuff from awhile back, will not know what I mean by most of these terms. I will explain most of this as I go. If you need a deeper understanding of these concepts, my archives are available. Spend a weekend sometime cruising them to your benefit.
Surprisingly, the least stupid debates are the ones about where covid came from. It is now fairly settled that this was an artificial virus. It is also clear that it was not leaked deliberately.
If this was an intentional bioweapon attack on humanity, it would likely have been much more lethal. It would also have been undetectable as such.
I am not a microbiologist and I do not really understand concepts like ‘furan breaks’. However, the existence of these in the DNA sequence of the covid bug show where genes were spliced into it. It was the result of some bright bulbs doing ‘gain of function’ research.
If it was intended as a bioweapon, it was not completed. A big reason the maniacs in the American biowar program need all these labs everywhere is to be able to keep passing their creations through lab animals, so they gain some natural mutations which conceal evidence of their artificial origin. It takes some time, and a lot of resources, to accomplish this.
Whatever the covid bug was intended to be, it somehow got loose. It then circulated around the planet for awhile, becoming more powerful. Someone finally noticed it in Wuhan, China.
There are enough red herrings swimming around the actual development of the covid virus to start an aquarium. There is no particular reason to believe it originated in the Wuhan biolab. The wild precursor of the organism came from bats, but there is no reason to believe it was Chinese bats in particular.
So, there is no way to determine where it leaked out. Whoever is to blame will have spent much effort in covering it up and blaming someone else. It is the Americans with the most resources to apply to that.
The point here is that experiments with ‘bioweapons’ and ‘gain of function’ must stop. It is the ultimate ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’ type of folly. Sooner or later something like this is going to be like the black death; making covid, Spanish flu, or Cholera seem like a sniffle.
Right now almost anyone can get their hands on equipment to start creating deadly viruses. Some lone nut with a grudge on the world could kill thousands with even a very simple bioweapon. You might consult Dr. Raina MacIntyre and her book, Dark Winter, on this topic.
Of course we still have one very large rogue nation whose elite still have a ‘masters of the universe’ mentality. They seem to see bioweapons as a legitimate means of war. They will not give up on it until the USA collapses.
The globalist elite also sees bioweapons as useful tools. It is a last hedge if the population rises up against them. Also, it is a way of pursuing the old Malthus/Huxley goal of limiting humanity’s threatening numbers, creativity, and productivity.
It should be noted that the AIDS virus and the Lyme disease organism are also results of fools playing around with gene modification.
There was no covid “plandemic.” The global elite were clearly taken by surprise by the virus. However, as with all crises, they acted quickly to turn it to their advantage in every way they could.
One thing the disorganized reaction to covid showed them is that they did not need to unleash a designer organism to carry out their population reduction plans. The viruses presently in circulation will work well enough, given a little help. Of course, it is also profitable to propagate diseases and then sell the cure for them.
All you have to do is pay professional ‘influencers’ to spread disinformation and mistrust about vaccines and other health measures. Parts of the public are already primed for disinformation and malinformation about all functions of government, especially the most legitimate and necessary ones.
However, the best malinformation spreaders are public health officials and the education systems which train them. The perfect example of this is the ‘droplets’ versus ‘airborne’ controversy. It could be better put as the ‘clean hands and surfaces’ trope versus ‘clean the air’ imperative.
The idea that viral diseases are mostly spread by hand contact, and contaminated surfaces, has long been a very ‘set in’ dogma within global health organizations. After five years of covid, there is still great resistance to the idea that infectious diseases are mostly airborne. In other words, spread by ‘aerosols’; microparticles which hang in the air like smoke and are breathed in.
To talk around all the evidence that diseases travel mostly through the air, the idea of ‘droplets’ was developed. People breathe out droplets of contaminated liquid, which lands on surfaces. People then get it on their hands, and then up to their faces, and so on.
The set-in idea was that these droplets traveled about six feet. That was why, in the early stage of covid, public health was obsessed with that ‘six feet’ rule. Also, plastic barriers were supposed to stop the droplets.
Respirator type masks were not needed to halt viruses. Surgical masks, open to the sides, were enough. This was taught to generations of health care providers.
All this was despite physicists telling the teachers that this was not how physics works for particles of that size. Plastic barriers would only create Eddys which concentrate the virus clouds. This simple truth could not break through the authoritarian culture within most health care systems.
One reason suggested for the persistence of this is that cleaning up the air costs money. It also requires a social approach. Instead, droplet dogma puts responsibility on the individual.
So, the answer to airborne diseases has been obsessive cleaning. This despite it being, not only ineffective, but harmful. Constant cleaning with disinfectants contaminates the air with fumes. Constant hand washing over time damages the skin.
Because of all this, we have been living with airborne diseases far longer than we have needed to. We have stupidly accepted having several colds a year, and ‘flus’ every one or two years, even with vaccination. We have just started to learn the long term harm of many of these infections.
Covid finally motivated people to start a clean air revolution. They have demanded changes in building design, and retrofitting of better air purification. New inventions, such as remote ultraviolet, are coming online.
There is a campaign to get people to wear masks where appropriate, to stay home when sick, and to keep up with vaccinations. However, these initiatives are met, everywhere in the Atlantic world, with intense and heavy handed resistance, for nonsense reasons. Part of this seems to be an unwillingness to incur any cost, or any administrative inconvenience.
But there is clearly another element to it as well. There is a real intention to propagate disease. Only part of this comes from the ridiculous ‘herd immunity’ mentality.
There is a real intention by some parts of the ruling elite to harm the health of the population. It is more than just the measures described above. It is the campaign to defund public health care, and to promote less effective vaccines over more effective ones.
As well, there is all the disinformation and misinformation going on, much of it spread by health officials. There is the mismanagement of health care, and the replacement of competent leaders with incompetent ones. There is the harassment of medical researchers who have been shown to be right about the spread of disease and its real consequences.
We do not just have economic class war in Atlantic countries. We have biological class war.
We have now been at this for five years. Conditions have been improving only very slowly. People are still getting covid, suffering chronic complications from it, and tragically developing the ‘long covid’ condition.
One of the worst things about covid is that it creates what is called “immune amnesia” The body’s templates for making antibodies to all the diseases it has already encountered, are damaged or destroyed. Thus, various other diseases have been resurgent.
Due to all this, economic growth and productivity has been greatly effected. The worst thing about it is that most people have learned nothing. Great effort is made to insure they do not.
However, this effect is mainly confined to the Atlanticist countries. In most of the world, people have come to understand what they have to do about covid. Even poor countries properly inform their citizens about how to prevent transmission.
Controlling covid is really a matter of isolating when you are infectious or likely to be. Isolating should not be such a problem.
Unfortunately, It is for the ruling elites of Anglosphere countries. The problem is that isolating requires people to take time off with pay.
These people are very hostile to any idea of giving people sick days; paying them when they do no work. It does not matter to them that it still costs people money to live. Since parents would have to stay home to care for sick kids, kids can lot be excused from school, either.
As well, industrial capitalists/neofascists hold to their idea of herd immunity, as though they know better than scientists. However, the idea of herd immunity is not really that people will get the disease and then be immune to it.
They want disease to ‘cull the weak’. They want fewer elderly or unhealthy individuals around, who require health care and produce nothing. The industrialists cannot imagine that this weakens their countries populations, their ‘herds’, as a whole.
The globalists/financialists do, and they want this. All this is greatly contributing to the decline of Western, Atlanticist countries.
It must be noted that the globalists did not calculate these effects well. They are starting to understand they have botched their management of the globe. They thought they would always control international trade and finance, and thus stay on top.
Since about 2020, it has not been working out that way. At some point, the globalists may decide they need a healthier human herd in their home countries. Then they would begin to try to reverse the program of forced infection.
However, the only thing which will really end the covid pandemic is what finally ended the AIDS pandemic. We finally got antivirals which control the disease. Then we got ones which cure it.
People no longer die from AIDS. They no longer just ‘live with chronic disease’. They are clearing it out of their systems.
There was a deliberate effort to frustrate research into AIDS cures. There is a lot of obstruction of covid research as well. It should be possible to create vaccines which are really effective against covid.
In fact, it should be possible to develop vaccines which would wipe out that whole class of viruses. This includes the SARS and MERS viruses, and most flus and colds. The vaccines need to attack core parts of the virus which do not change much and are common to all the viral organisms, not the ‘spikes’ which are all different and which evolve rapidly.
There are efforts to try to prevent or delay this. There are ideological and sociological reasons for this, as discussed. There are also economic reasons.
There is a lot of money in selling imperfect vaccines which people must keep taking. There is little money in selling ones which end the problem permanently. The paranoia about vaccines is not entirely unjustified.
It is becoming understood that many diseases start with viral infections, even mild ones. These include everything from brain problems like Alzheimers, to auto immune problems, to many types of cancers. Elimination of airborne diseases will be a revolution in human health and longevity.
I will briefly review the first five years of the age of covid. It is a story of institutions being found to be unfit for purpose when tested in crisis. Also, clashes of ideology versus reality.
These days people in the west mostly believe that the lockdowns of the first year were an abuse of authority, and unnecessary. Yes and no, and it is way more complicated than that.
Covid was not the first pandemic the human race has encountered in its history. Some lessons had been learned from previous experiences. However, it is said that we do not learn from history and it seems so with pandemics, as well.
When one breaks out, there are always cranks who think prevention measures are interfering with their ‘liberties’, or whatever term is in use at the time. Business people are frantic that the disease, and preventive measures, will interrupt their control of labor and markets. The elite often think, initially, that the disease only effects the peasantry, who need to be thinned out, anyway.
Governments are usually about serving elite interests. They have no competence to deal with an emergency of any kind. At first, usually, they will incompetently apply public health principles, then just give up on it and let the disease run its course.
There are always jackasses yapping about how the measures are unnecessary, intrude on this and that, the disease is not really that bad, or it is not clear how bad it is. The basic principle for dealing with any unknown disease is the uncertainty principle. You assume the worst until you know better.
Carrying this out requires good government. The mark of good government is that it has a plan for emergencies like a pandemic and can carry it out. The public has confidence it is competent and will act in the public’s interest.
Most western and Latin American countries failed wretchedly in the Covid pandemic. Most Asian countries did reasonably well. China was a model to follow. Even impoverished African countries did a fair job.
During that first year, I had some fierce online debates with people demanding to know why no one was questioning the lockdowns. I got blocked a lot, but also got some follows. The thing is, in a crisis, you let government deal with it.
Unless the government response is such an obvious bungle that it endangers people as much as the cause, you cooperate with the effort. You do not fly around, trying to undermine it. Once the immediate crisis is passed, there will be time to examine the efficiency or inadequacy of the response and make what adjustments are needed.
The inadequacy of the covid response is clear. The issue is not that a lockdown, better called by its proper name, quarantine, was imposed. I took exception to those claiming that government had no right to impose a quarantine.
To use such long tested methods in a pandemic crisis is one of the most basic functions of a government. However, the quarantine must be done correctly. You cannot just lock people in their houses for forty days. Delivery of food and water must be organized.
A quarantine must be done strict, short, and once. If, after a few weeks, the plague is not eliminated, the quarantine has failed. But the real purpose of quarantine is to give time for longer term measures to be put into place.
Usually, that is a system of ‘test and trace’, and border controls. The former require considerable resources, which neoliberal governments do not want to commit. Also, willingness to enforce rules on recalcitrant individuals.
Border controls require international cooperation. If a group of countries decides that a pandemic is a good vector for waging economic war, the target countries can be economically isolated. In 2020 to 2021, the responsible countries did not have enough economic mass to push back against the “cure can’t be worse then the disease” countries.
By the way, ask; for whom, exactly, was the cure worse than the disease. The cure was terrible for capital. It was actually not too bad for the working classes; their quality of life improved briefly due to the pandemic measures, if they avoided becoming covid ‘long haulers’.
People still do not realize how much worst the pandemic could have been. In the west, the limited, poorly applied measures were nonetheless enough to prevent the disease from ‘flashing’ until effective controls were ready. In some countries, especially in Latin America, it was like a medieval plague, with bodies rotting in the street and people fleeing their homes.
However, in nice places like Canada, the mRNA vaccines arrived. Soon after, we had real drugs like Paxlovid, with real effects on covid infections. This curbed the effects of the disease and the malinformation and maladministration.
The ‘horse pasters,’ floggers of fake cures, were mostly put out of business in Canada. They operated a lot longer in The States, due to lack of public health care. I had some online fireworks with supporters of such people.
One of them, fairly useful on other topics, was terrifically unset about the response of her online followers when she advocated for Ivermectin. She eventually learned to stick to what she knew.
There was nothing really wrong with Ivermectin. Some third world countries used it to treat covid, with some result. But that was Ivermectin formulated for treating covid in humans.
We had idiots running around trying to buy the version of it used to treat intestinal parasites in horses. Other idiots promoted this foolishness. This was really a problem of governments which failed to lead, could not be trusted to give right information, then stopped giving any information.
There are legitimate concerns about the mRNA vaccines. They can have bad side effects. They have been in use for some time, but were actually designed for livestock.
These types of vaccines should have been replaced by now. We now have effective protein based vaccines. However, there are problems getting them into use due to political nonsense.
In Canada, we built a plant just to produce Novavax. It never opened and we can no longer access that vaccine. We have had to go back to using mRNA vaxxes.
Government flatly refuses to explain why. However, this is one of the reasons why Prime Minister Trudeau’s popularity was lower than a snake before he resigned. We expect Mark Carney to do better on these kinds of issues.
After the mass vaccinations, government decided everything was over. It obeyed the industrialist loudmouth’s demands that everything be returned to ‘normal’. The cure cannot be worse than the disease.
Nothing is returning to normal. Covid and other diseases continue to percolate through the human herd, which keeps getting less healthy. After a covid bump, in which incomes went up and rents went down, things are worse than ever for the subordinate classes.
One good thing is that people got used to working from home. Campaigns to get them back into the office have mostly failed.
The covid age has been grim. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. It seems that, fairly soon, governments in the Atlantisphere will be forced to adopt the public health measures of the best countries. Otherwise, they will simply be forced out of the world economy.
These measures include simply making respirator masks available to all, and teaching people when and how to use them. Also, to start giving out correct information. Putting an end to campaigns to privatize health care would help things, too.
No one is listening to the World Health Organization anymore. However, there is some effort under way to rehabilitate it. China is offering to fund it if it stops taking money from Bill Gates and his global pharmaceutical racket.
Tedros Ghebreyesus may be being pushed out the door. He is a strange person to be in charge of WHO. As health minister of Ethiopia, he was noted for dealing with epidemics by denying their severity, and trying to suppress information about them.
Some of us hold in memory the odious press conference he gave at the start of the pandemic. A creepy secret police type, who has never been seen before or since, was sitting next to him.
Tedros started out saying that the disease was airborne. His handler started passing him notes and whispering in his ear.
Tedros started backing away from the ‘airborne’ description. He said he meant ‘airborne’ in a different sense, as in paratroopers.
There are great efforts to ‘airbrush’ this interview from public records or consciousness. Only recently have some lower level officials of WHO publicly apologized for all the harm done by suppressing an ‘airborne pathogen’ approach to dealing with Covid.
While the response to covid has been dismal for five years, I believe we will be done with it five years from now. By then, we will have good vaccines. We will have effective antivirals for covid.
We will be making progress at weeding people out of positions of power in the health field, who do not belong there. This process is proceeding from the world’s best countries. It is proceeding to international institutions. It will filter down to the crap countries, including in the Anglosphere.
The generation now in its infancy may be the last to suffer infection during their lives from any form of airborne illness. People born after 2030 may never know what a head cold feels like.
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