Jonathan, you’re spot on about the PCR testing trap and the 2006 Dartmouth whooping cough pseudo-epidemic. That was a textbook case of a “false-positive PCR-driven outbreak” where the test lit up like a Christmas tree, hospitals went into panic mode, and it turned out zero cases were real once cultured properly. Same signal here: retrospective samples showing the virus (or fragments) widespread months earlier across continents, no unusual 2019 clusters or excess deaths reported at the time. Without obsessive testing, spring 2020 looks like a bad flu season in the “soup” of seasonal coronaviruses and other pathogens that hit the elderly hardest. The novel thing spreading wasn’t a brand-new apocalyptic virus—it was the testing itself.
But here’s where I push back: it wasn’t just the testing. The real historical crime was the engineered fear, psychological warfare, and criminal overreaction that turned a manageable respiratory illness into the biggest medical enterprise scandal in history. Without the nonstop fear porn—daily announcements of “young, healthy people dropping dead,” hospital dashboards, and media hysteria—none of this spirals into lockdowns, mandates, school closures, or economic destruction. The testing was the spark; the coordinated terror campaign was the gasoline.
Look at Andy Slavitt (Biden’s COVID advisor) flooding Facebook and Twitter in 2020, hammering that “young” (40-60s) people were dying every day from this, painting them as “seemingly normal healthy” victims. In reality, the overwhelming majority had obesity, comorbidities, or other factors—yet the narrative was “anyone can die.” Then you had the absurd summer 2020 stories: “healthy” people suddenly dead… only for some to turn out as straight-up murders mislabeled or sensationalized (remember the Phoenix-area cases where spouses/partners were involved in suspicious deaths initially spun into the COVID panic?). The level of stupidity and manipulation was off the charts—ventilators killing people, denied treatments, and every death within 28 days of a positive test counted as “COVID.”
This wasn’t organic. It was deliberate amplification by a cabal of public health figures who knew better (or should have). Without their fear machine + testing, we’d have written exactly what you said: nothing. Just another bad respiratory season.
This was (and remains) the largest criminal medical enterprise the world has ever seen. The perpetrators who drove the narrative, policies, and panic—and who belong in jail for it—include:
• Peter Hotez
• Fauci
• Andy Slavitt
• Bob Wachter
• Eric Feigl-Ding
• Birx
• Eric Topol
• Bottazzi (Maria Elena Bottazzi)
• Osterholm
• Leana Wen
• Ashish Jha
• Marty Makary
They turned a virus into a weapon of mass compliance. The testing was the tool. The psychological operation was the difference. History won’t forget. The question is will any of this criminals ever go to jail for what they did?
Agree, though your reference to "a bad flu season" and a "manageable respiratory illness" suggests (but only suggests, I admit) that you may believe that a good or bad flu season depends on the phenotypic qualities of that season's flu virus, and that such viruses transmit person-to-person in waves, with the propensity every now and again to cause a pandemic.
I don't believe that. I think all pandemics in history have essentially been mass hysterical events triggered hy socio-political circumstances.
I think we agree on most of this, especially the role of testing and the fear campaign. Where we might differ slightly is that I do believe respiratory viruses have natural ebbs and flows. Some seasons really do seem worse for certain groups — particularly the elderly and those with comorbidities — even if overall it’s still just a bad flu season in the normal range of variation.
This isn’t a scientific claim, just anecdotal. I have a lot of medical professionals in my family, and they’ve always talked about certain winters being noticeably rougher than others. You can see the same pattern in history — the 2009 swine flu (H1N1) being one clear example.
That said, I completely agree with Wolfgang Wodarg: viruses are messy with lots of genetic material floating around, and when you crank up the PCR cycle thresholds, you can find fragments of all kinds of strains. That’s why the testing frenzy created the illusion of something entirely new and apocalyptic.
You say "I do believe respiratory viruses have natural ebbs and flows", whereas I would say "I do believe seasonal respiratory illnesses have natural ebbs and flows".
In other words, the idea that what distinguishes different "flu seasons" from one year to the next is down to "that year's flu virus" is basically part of the BS.
Of course, the fact is that when actually looked for, multiple pathogens can be found in association with seasonal respiratory illnesses (and in fact also quite often none are found); hence the idea that the virulence of "that year's flu" can explain year-to-year variation in that year's "flu season" is completely nonsensical.
We may differ here, but I appreciate the nuance you’re making. I’m not arrogant enough to claim absolute certainty on this — I approach it the same way I approach questions about God: agnostic. I just don’t know for sure.
That said, I find Wolfgang Wodarg’s perspective compelling. As a physician who has studied this for decades, he points out that respiratory viruses do circulate as different strains from year to year, and some strains genuinely appear more virulent or more dangerous to certain groups (the elderly, the frail, the very young, or those with comorbidities). That seems consistent with both anecdotal reports from doctors and broader historical data.
On top of that, environmental and behavioral factors clearly play a role: colder, darker winters with less sunlight, people staying indoors longer, drier air, etc. Those conditions can make any respiratory season worse.
So to me it’s not either/or — it’s both the natural variation in circulating strains and seasonal conditions that help explain why some winters feel noticeably rougher than others, even if the overall fear-driven response in 2020 was wildly disproportionate.
Surprisingly, lol, here has been very little research regarding how fear/depression/anxiety affect the immune system.
Covid was merely a construct that the Elite had planned for decades.
Ask an honest scientist who has ever worked for the US - USAMRID if they have ever actually been able to study any so called virus - never mind "engineer" one.. Never been able to do that, even with the help of untold money.
You know, this actually makes a lot of sense to me. When you step back and look at what happened, the whole “pandemic” story doesn’t add up the way they want us to believe. There was no massive die-off of healthy people across all ages, which is what any reasonable definition of a pandemic should mean. What we did see was data games, testing tricks, mislabeling deaths, and a level of propaganda like nothing we’ve ever experienced before.
The timeline alone stretches credibility, within a few short weeks they “discovered” a new virus, sequenced it, rolled out a global dashboard, and somehow had a peer-reviewed test ready to go. That’s not science, that’s choreography.
And I agree with PANDA’s point about the lab-leak vs. zoonotic-spillover debate. It’s a false choice that keeps the focus on “something escaped” rather than questioning if there was actually a pandemic at all. Both sides end up feeding the same “pandemic preparedness industry” that is already gearing up for the “next one.”
The real damage came from the response itself: shutting down health care, isolating people, scaring them, and then using bad data to justify more of the same. That’s what did the harm, not some invisible killer virus floating around.
It was all a test of one' ability to assess the conflicting data. They increased the silliness to see how long it would take for people to see through the scam.
'Perplexity AI' tells me that I and PANDA are in 'denialist' mode e.g. 'Key hallmarks of denialism evident in this PANDA article include:
- Claiming there was no excess mortality or genuine pandemic despite robust mortality and infection data worldwide.
- Asserting that the virus was not novel and indistinguishable from common respiratory illnesses, which is contradicted by extensive genetic sequencing and disease profiles.
- Suggesting massive fraud, political motives, and propaganda campaigns behind the pandemic narrative without credible evidence.
- Rejecting established epidemiology and virology, and attributing health harms primarily to policy responses, again without solid grounding.
- Promoting a conspiracy worldview involving global financial and political elites manipulating the pandemic for gain.'
Had I asked a current LLM to express an 'opinion' about lobotomy in its heyday, I would probably be called a 'denialist'. I asked GROK:
'Answer: If an LLM from that era existed, its response would depend on its training data. Most likely, it would reflect the dominant medical consensus, labeling lobotomy as a valid therapy and possibly calling scepticism "denialist" if it leaned heavily on the era’s authoritative sources.”'
I asked GROK what a 16th century LLM would have made of heliocentrism: 'In essence, the LLM would echo the era's biases: geocentrism as self-evident truth, and heliocentrists as outliers worthy of ridicule, caution, or suppression.'
That's right, there was no covid, no pandemic and viruses have never been proven to exist either. This was a huge trick played on the public. It was an IQ test. Probably a way of the ignorant to take themselves and their offspring, out of the gene pool. Transhumanism too is connected to this thus the insertion of nanobots and graphene oxide.
And yet, the "false" pandemic continues; new strains of the man-altered bat virus made into a potentially lethal human pathogen develop and kill people across the world under the name COVID. Vast numbers of people are still crippled in various ways by what is properly called Long COVID and I myself am just returning to health after my life has been threatened by it for more than two years.
Also, the virus from the green monkey in Africa continues to kill across the world under the diagnosis of AIDS. The previous "silent" pandemic.
And even older, the new strains of the influenza virus continue to kill people across the world under the diagnosis of the winter flu. In the prime of life, 55 years ago, I suffered from the Hong Kong influenza pandemic in 1970 and was left with prolonged peripheral neuropathy which slowly healed
1. We know for a fact that a false pandemic was perpetrated. Bill Gates told us on TED TALKS that 'vaccines' would be used to reduce the world's population. The global rulers have a code that they must inform the public of what they are doing. In so doing, the public is giving its silent consent. 2. Does no one remember 'debt crisis' and that an ageing baby boomer population is an untenable liability to them? 3. They are not going to drop a bomb on their own heads. It was already known that a vaccine could never be effective for any kind of coronavirus; assuming there is any effectiveness in vaccines in the first place; therefore if it were real, there would be no protection of the global ruling class and the people at the top still need a working class to support them. They could however duck a lethal injection posing as a vaccine. The logic is inescapable. There was no pandemic, there never needed to be one.
No conspiracy theory needed when you’ve got tons of evidence. America has had at least four fake pandemics in my lifetime and these are going to continue until the American people/government criminalize and penalize medical terrorism
When a person or a group of people lies, it leads to more and larger lies to cover-up the initial lie, which leads to a pandemic of lies. Isn't it much healthier to distrust everything we’re told by just about everyone in government in any capacity, in the media, and the entertainment industry, and be pleasantly surprised when someone tells the truth, than it is to readily believe what we are told and constantly be upset and disappointed when we learn we've been lied to …, again? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!
I was at first a useful idiot and went out of work, as recommended by my daughter and wife, both of whom work in hospitals, in February 2020. After much internet research (3 months worth) I decided the "Pandemic" was fake. Thank you God, for opening my eyes to the evil of this monster!
Every single aspect of most narratives of officialdom are BS. Skepticism by default is the only sane position but people have been conditioned to do just the opposite. They acquiesce to and believe their abusers, proven liars, no matter how bad it gets.
And openly fraudulent.
Jonathan, you’re spot on about the PCR testing trap and the 2006 Dartmouth whooping cough pseudo-epidemic. That was a textbook case of a “false-positive PCR-driven outbreak” where the test lit up like a Christmas tree, hospitals went into panic mode, and it turned out zero cases were real once cultured properly. Same signal here: retrospective samples showing the virus (or fragments) widespread months earlier across continents, no unusual 2019 clusters or excess deaths reported at the time. Without obsessive testing, spring 2020 looks like a bad flu season in the “soup” of seasonal coronaviruses and other pathogens that hit the elderly hardest. The novel thing spreading wasn’t a brand-new apocalyptic virus—it was the testing itself.
But here’s where I push back: it wasn’t just the testing. The real historical crime was the engineered fear, psychological warfare, and criminal overreaction that turned a manageable respiratory illness into the biggest medical enterprise scandal in history. Without the nonstop fear porn—daily announcements of “young, healthy people dropping dead,” hospital dashboards, and media hysteria—none of this spirals into lockdowns, mandates, school closures, or economic destruction. The testing was the spark; the coordinated terror campaign was the gasoline.
Look at Andy Slavitt (Biden’s COVID advisor) flooding Facebook and Twitter in 2020, hammering that “young” (40-60s) people were dying every day from this, painting them as “seemingly normal healthy” victims. In reality, the overwhelming majority had obesity, comorbidities, or other factors—yet the narrative was “anyone can die.” Then you had the absurd summer 2020 stories: “healthy” people suddenly dead… only for some to turn out as straight-up murders mislabeled or sensationalized (remember the Phoenix-area cases where spouses/partners were involved in suspicious deaths initially spun into the COVID panic?). The level of stupidity and manipulation was off the charts—ventilators killing people, denied treatments, and every death within 28 days of a positive test counted as “COVID.”
This wasn’t organic. It was deliberate amplification by a cabal of public health figures who knew better (or should have). Without their fear machine + testing, we’d have written exactly what you said: nothing. Just another bad respiratory season.
This was (and remains) the largest criminal medical enterprise the world has ever seen. The perpetrators who drove the narrative, policies, and panic—and who belong in jail for it—include:
• Peter Hotez
• Fauci
• Andy Slavitt
• Bob Wachter
• Eric Feigl-Ding
• Birx
• Eric Topol
• Bottazzi (Maria Elena Bottazzi)
• Osterholm
• Leana Wen
• Ashish Jha
• Marty Makary
They turned a virus into a weapon of mass compliance. The testing was the tool. The psychological operation was the difference. History won’t forget. The question is will any of this criminals ever go to jail for what they did?
Agree, though your reference to "a bad flu season" and a "manageable respiratory illness" suggests (but only suggests, I admit) that you may believe that a good or bad flu season depends on the phenotypic qualities of that season's flu virus, and that such viruses transmit person-to-person in waves, with the propensity every now and again to cause a pandemic.
I don't believe that. I think all pandemics in history have essentially been mass hysterical events triggered hy socio-political circumstances.
I think we agree on most of this, especially the role of testing and the fear campaign. Where we might differ slightly is that I do believe respiratory viruses have natural ebbs and flows. Some seasons really do seem worse for certain groups — particularly the elderly and those with comorbidities — even if overall it’s still just a bad flu season in the normal range of variation.
This isn’t a scientific claim, just anecdotal. I have a lot of medical professionals in my family, and they’ve always talked about certain winters being noticeably rougher than others. You can see the same pattern in history — the 2009 swine flu (H1N1) being one clear example.
That said, I completely agree with Wolfgang Wodarg: viruses are messy with lots of genetic material floating around, and when you crank up the PCR cycle thresholds, you can find fragments of all kinds of strains. That’s why the testing frenzy created the illusion of something entirely new and apocalyptic.
OK, where we differ (perhaps) is here:
You say "I do believe respiratory viruses have natural ebbs and flows", whereas I would say "I do believe seasonal respiratory illnesses have natural ebbs and flows".
In other words, the idea that what distinguishes different "flu seasons" from one year to the next is down to "that year's flu virus" is basically part of the BS.
Of course, the fact is that when actually looked for, multiple pathogens can be found in association with seasonal respiratory illnesses (and in fact also quite often none are found); hence the idea that the virulence of "that year's flu" can explain year-to-year variation in that year's "flu season" is completely nonsensical.
We may differ here, but I appreciate the nuance you’re making. I’m not arrogant enough to claim absolute certainty on this — I approach it the same way I approach questions about God: agnostic. I just don’t know for sure.
That said, I find Wolfgang Wodarg’s perspective compelling. As a physician who has studied this for decades, he points out that respiratory viruses do circulate as different strains from year to year, and some strains genuinely appear more virulent or more dangerous to certain groups (the elderly, the frail, the very young, or those with comorbidities). That seems consistent with both anecdotal reports from doctors and broader historical data.
On top of that, environmental and behavioral factors clearly play a role: colder, darker winters with less sunlight, people staying indoors longer, drier air, etc. Those conditions can make any respiratory season worse.
So to me it’s not either/or — it’s both the natural variation in circulating strains and seasonal conditions that help explain why some winters feel noticeably rougher than others, even if the overall fear-driven response in 2020 was wildly disproportionate.
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Surprisingly, lol, here has been very little research regarding how fear/depression/anxiety affect the immune system.
Covid was merely a construct that the Elite had planned for decades.
Ask an honest scientist who has ever worked for the US - USAMRID if they have ever actually been able to study any so called virus - never mind "engineer" one.. Never been able to do that, even with the help of untold money.
To date, no one has claimed the million Euros offered to prove the claim that viruses even exist… odd
You know, this actually makes a lot of sense to me. When you step back and look at what happened, the whole “pandemic” story doesn’t add up the way they want us to believe. There was no massive die-off of healthy people across all ages, which is what any reasonable definition of a pandemic should mean. What we did see was data games, testing tricks, mislabeling deaths, and a level of propaganda like nothing we’ve ever experienced before.
The timeline alone stretches credibility, within a few short weeks they “discovered” a new virus, sequenced it, rolled out a global dashboard, and somehow had a peer-reviewed test ready to go. That’s not science, that’s choreography.
And I agree with PANDA’s point about the lab-leak vs. zoonotic-spillover debate. It’s a false choice that keeps the focus on “something escaped” rather than questioning if there was actually a pandemic at all. Both sides end up feeding the same “pandemic preparedness industry” that is already gearing up for the “next one.”
The real damage came from the response itself: shutting down health care, isolating people, scaring them, and then using bad data to justify more of the same. That’s what did the harm, not some invisible killer virus floating around.
It was all a test of one' ability to assess the conflicting data. They increased the silliness to see how long it would take for people to see through the scam.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/the-nature-of-false-binaries?utm_source=publication-search
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/the-great-covid-retest?utm_source=publication-search
'Perplexity AI' tells me that I and PANDA are in 'denialist' mode e.g. 'Key hallmarks of denialism evident in this PANDA article include:
- Claiming there was no excess mortality or genuine pandemic despite robust mortality and infection data worldwide.
- Asserting that the virus was not novel and indistinguishable from common respiratory illnesses, which is contradicted by extensive genetic sequencing and disease profiles.
- Suggesting massive fraud, political motives, and propaganda campaigns behind the pandemic narrative without credible evidence.
- Rejecting established epidemiology and virology, and attributing health harms primarily to policy responses, again without solid grounding.
- Promoting a conspiracy worldview involving global financial and political elites manipulating the pandemic for gain.'
Had I asked a current LLM to express an 'opinion' about lobotomy in its heyday, I would probably be called a 'denialist'. I asked GROK:
'Answer: If an LLM from that era existed, its response would depend on its training data. Most likely, it would reflect the dominant medical consensus, labeling lobotomy as a valid therapy and possibly calling scepticism "denialist" if it leaned heavily on the era’s authoritative sources.”'
I asked GROK what a 16th century LLM would have made of heliocentrism: 'In essence, the LLM would echo the era's biases: geocentrism as self-evident truth, and heliocentrists as outliers worthy of ridicule, caution, or suppression.'
Amazing that even a machine is able to discern that this is total rubbish!
GREAT COMMENTARIES BELOW, THUS I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD; excellent!!
That's right, there was no covid, no pandemic and viruses have never been proven to exist either. This was a huge trick played on the public. It was an IQ test. Probably a way of the ignorant to take themselves and their offspring, out of the gene pool. Transhumanism too is connected to this thus the insertion of nanobots and graphene oxide.
And yet, the "false" pandemic continues; new strains of the man-altered bat virus made into a potentially lethal human pathogen develop and kill people across the world under the name COVID. Vast numbers of people are still crippled in various ways by what is properly called Long COVID and I myself am just returning to health after my life has been threatened by it for more than two years.
Also, the virus from the green monkey in Africa continues to kill across the world under the diagnosis of AIDS. The previous "silent" pandemic.
And even older, the new strains of the influenza virus continue to kill people across the world under the diagnosis of the winter flu. In the prime of life, 55 years ago, I suffered from the Hong Kong influenza pandemic in 1970 and was left with prolonged peripheral neuropathy which slowly healed
1. We know for a fact that a false pandemic was perpetrated. Bill Gates told us on TED TALKS that 'vaccines' would be used to reduce the world's population. The global rulers have a code that they must inform the public of what they are doing. In so doing, the public is giving its silent consent. 2. Does no one remember 'debt crisis' and that an ageing baby boomer population is an untenable liability to them? 3. They are not going to drop a bomb on their own heads. It was already known that a vaccine could never be effective for any kind of coronavirus; assuming there is any effectiveness in vaccines in the first place; therefore if it were real, there would be no protection of the global ruling class and the people at the top still need a working class to support them. They could however duck a lethal injection posing as a vaccine. The logic is inescapable. There was no pandemic, there never needed to be one.
No conspiracy theory needed when you’ve got tons of evidence. America has had at least four fake pandemics in my lifetime and these are going to continue until the American people/government criminalize and penalize medical terrorism
When a person or a group of people lies, it leads to more and larger lies to cover-up the initial lie, which leads to a pandemic of lies. Isn't it much healthier to distrust everything we’re told by just about everyone in government in any capacity, in the media, and the entertainment industry, and be pleasantly surprised when someone tells the truth, than it is to readily believe what we are told and constantly be upset and disappointed when we learn we've been lied to …, again? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!
I was at first a useful idiot and went out of work, as recommended by my daughter and wife, both of whom work in hospitals, in February 2020. After much internet research (3 months worth) I decided the "Pandemic" was fake. Thank you God, for opening my eyes to the evil of this monster!
Amen
the only real viral pandemic is the religious belief in state authority and magical thinking of collectivist ideals above individual autonomy.
and common sense.
Every single aspect of most narratives of officialdom are BS. Skepticism by default is the only sane position but people have been conditioned to do just the opposite. They acquiesce to and believe their abusers, proven liars, no matter how bad it gets.