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The three major controversies over pandemic management for the past three years have been lockdown measures, universal masking recommendations and mandates, and Covid vaccines. 

The last was a pharmaceutical intervention using revolutionary new technology. The first two were radical departures from the existing scientific and policy consensus as encapsulated in official documents from the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) and in several national pandemic preparedness plans. They established the willingness of the state to dictate every aspect of people’s lives, down to the most ridiculous and absurd details. 

For example, people were told when they could shop, the hours during which they could shop, what they could purchase, how close they could get to others, and which direction they could move in by following arrows on the floor. Governments also stepped into nations’ bedrooms at home to dictate with whom people could and could not be intimate: a ukase that notoriously turned Professor Neil “Lockdown” Ferguson himself into Professor Pantsdown.

Lockdowns thus proved the extent to which people would comply with state directives without deploying independent critical thinking and, like frogs in boiling water, their almost total lack of concern about the gradually increasing degree of infringements of civil liberties and personal freedoms. 

Compliance with often idiotic rules was ratcheted up to another level still with mask recommendations-cum-mandates, with one additional notable feature. Governments were able to mobilise members of the public to exert peer pressure and societal coercion to enforce compliance, backed by often brutal police coercion against pockets of resistance and protest. 

In retrospect, it’s doubtful if the degree of state and social coercion deployed to increase vaccine uptake would have been possible without the ground having first been prepared with lockdowns and masks.


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Lockdowns

Lockdowns were a euphemism for a wholesale shutting down of all social and most economic activities and locking up entire populations under de facto house arrest. They were imposed on and off for two years with the goalposts of justification shifting from flatten the curve in 2-3 weeks to protect the health system, wait for the vaccine and stop the new variant. 

They were based neither on good science and best-practice medicine, nor were they commensurate with the age-stratified threat from the novel coronavirus to individual and public health. By contrast the health, mental health, social, educational and economic harms caused by the lockdowns have locked in generational poverty and inequality within and among states.

The Neil Ferguson-led Imperial College London models of Covid mortality that panicked governments into unprecedented extreme countermeasures turned out to be several factor fold higher than empirical outcomes. A peer-reviewed study published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation by Eran Bendavid, Christine Oh, Jay Bhattacharya and John Ioannidis in January 2021 failed to find “clear, significant beneficial effect” of stringent lockdowns “on case growth in any country.” 

That remains the case to this day either when looking at countries or at US states.

Early data – from ChinaItalySpain, the Diamond Princess cruise ship – told us in February–March 2020 already that the most vulnerable were elderly people with existing serious health conditions. All the data since then has been entirely consistent with this and it was also underlined in the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020: “We know that vulnerability to death from covid-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, covid-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.”

On 16 November, The Guardian reported that Europe faces a “cancer epidemic” because 1 million cancer diagnoses were missed because of lockdowns. In the UK, which experienced the highest proportion of lack of access  to healthcare in Europe during the pandemic, there were almost 9,000 excess cancer deaths by mid-November 2022 since the start of the pandemic. Meanwhile Sweden, the object of much abusive analysis in the corporate media in most of 2020, was fully vindicated in 2022 with one of the lowest all-cause mortality – the metric most resistant to being gamed to fit a narrative bias – rates in Europe.

Masks

Once lockdowns were firmly in place as public policy, the next previously discredited and discarded nonpharmaceutical intervention to come on the policy agenda was facemasks for the general population in indoor and outdoor community settings. A 14-year-old British student named Jack Watson was able to spot the many inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities of lockdown and mask restrictions for schoolchildren. A 1920 study of mask-wearing during the Spanish flu concluded that it had not shown sufficient effectiveness to “warrant compulsory application for the checking of epidemics.”

It’s worth quoting in full paragraph 4.15 from the UK Influenza Preparedness Strategy 2011 that succinctly encapsulated the scientific and policy consensus:

Although there is a perception that the wearing of facemasks by the public in the community and household setting may be beneficial, there is in fact very little evidence of widespread benefit from their use in this setting. Facemasks must be worn correctly, changed frequently, removed properly, disposed of safely and used in combination with good respiratory, hand, and home hygiene behaviour in order for them to achieve the intended benefit. Research also shows that compliance with these recommended behaviours when wearing facemasks for prolonged periods reduces over time. 

This conclusion was reaffirmed in the WHO report published in September 2019 that summarised the best available studies to date: “Ten RCTs were included in the meta-analysis, and there was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza” (p. 26). 

An Australian Department of Health document in July 2020 advised that facemasks are most likely to be effective if worn correctly and consistently (no touching the front of the mask, no pulling it down intermittently – both extremely common real-world behaviour!) for source control when worn by an infected person, but less effective in protecting uninfected people.

Facemasks is the issue on which my trust in the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), which exercises an outsized influence globally, was broken irreparably. The CDC tweeted that during the March–July 2020 period, “universal mask use helped reduce covid-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths” in Delaware. It was telling the truth, but not the whole truth. 

The mandate was introduced on 28 April when Delaware had 235 cases (7-day moving average). On 30 June cases had indeed fallen to 89. But they began to climb again in autumn and on 12 December Delaware had 826 cases: nearly four times as many as when the masks were brought in (Figure 1). Fair enough, you might say, like many others the CDC failed to anticipate the seasonal surge. Except the tweet was sent out on 6 January 2021. This is not a well-intentioned mistake overtaken by events but deliberate dishonesty.

Figure 1: The CDC’s false claims on Delaware’s mask mandate success, 6 January 2021.

Anthony Fauci too shed credibility with his notorious and numerous flip-flops on masks. His attempts to claim the noble lie as his primary motivation for the changing stance, saying he was trying to prioritise masks for healthcare workers and prevent a public run on them, only deepened perceptions of shiftiness. 

Firstly, because in fact his initial scepticism accurately reflected the existing consensus and secondly because he was repeating the same argument in a private email to a friend as well. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt tweeted after Fauci was deposed in November that the good “America’s doctor” was not able to cite a single study to support his pro-mask health advice. Incidentally, during the deposition Fauci responded to questions with “I don’t recall” an astonishing 174 times. A likely explanation for his convenient amnesia is he knows the truth is not his ally.

Masks dehumanise us and are a potent force for stoking mass fear. In December, a hundred doctors, paediatricians, clinical psychologists and academics wrote an open letter to the UK Government warning that requiring masks in schools breached WHO guidelines and were creating a “climate of fear.” Masks should “play no part in the life of healthy children,” they said. In autumn 2021, Scotland introduced mask mandates for schools but England did not, yet weekly cases in both showed broadly similar infection curves

One of the most valuable sets of observational data is the brilliant series of comparative charts produced by Ian Miller in Unmasked: The Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates  (2022). The most significant result of the community-wide mask recommendations was twofold: the highly and instantly visible perpetuated and locked in the reign of fear and it demonstrated broad compliance with the effort of governments to exercise population-wide social control.

The above is the Part 1 of a two-part series titled ‘State Power and Covid Crimes’ republished from Brownstone Institute.  You can read Part 2 HERE.

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Leslie
Leslie
1 year ago

I just went to my phone so I could buy some coffee. Tweeted it as well.

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Reply to  Leslie
1 year ago

Sorry Leslie, but why don’t you buy a coffee elsewhere where they take cash? It’s paramount for all of us to use cash everywhere and every time. Our future and the future of our children depends on it. It’s that serious.

COPHunter
COPHunter
1 year ago

Coming back, they do their best to start the show again with quarantine, mask, test, army run ‘hospitals’ (Nightingales) and of course vaccines while they try to shut us up – the result of pushing the virus is real misinfo – well done.

Dear readers, take time to check the comments of the interview (photo as rumble link not allowed here). There are many links to good materials for truth seekers.

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Reply to  COPHunter
1 year ago

I usually put h in brackets like this example: (h) ttps://expose-news.com and it works.

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Reply to  COPHunter
1 year ago

Oh, here it is:

Doctor SPEAKS OUT On Virus Theory Doctor Claims Original COVID Variants Were Not Viruses(h) ttps://rumble.com/v23rj40-doctor-speaks-out-on-virus-theory-doctor-claims-original-covid-variants-wer.html

john
john
Reply to  Rhoda Wilson
1 year ago

Why is the J3wi5h word not allowed in comments. Why is that phenomenon not allowed to be discussed in relation to the genocide. Why can’t it be made known that the pharma companies are j3wi5h?
Does the expose fear the ADL?

Dave Owen
Dave Owen
Reply to  john
1 year ago

Hi John,
First law of survival.
You are not allowed to criticize, who rules you.
So it is self explanatary.

Islander
Islander
Reply to  Rhoda Wilson
1 year ago

An excellent reply, Acts 12:13!

Dave Owen
Dave Owen
Reply to  COPHunter
1 year ago

Hi COPHunter,
You just reminded me about the Nightingales.
In the UK £millions were spent on the equipment.
Because nobody used them, the NHS people steadily removed the equipment for themselves.
So thank goodness it was not wasted like the pp rubber gear.
Talk about jobs for the boys.

COPHunter
COPHunter
1 year ago

John, next time you had eczema, your skin is oversensitive, because of it you can’t use just anything. And bring a pair of nylon gloves for in case, this is what I did. Sometimes I simply mimicked without pushing the top. There was only one time I couldn’t ‘escape’ in a foreign airport at the beginning when I was unprepared and the first in the line with very visible hands.

If you need testing, order the test from a company for home testing, they are more expensive but worth every penny that you don’t have to be a subject of pushing and rubbing a delivery tool at your brain – some people who were just tested but never vaccinated – also have MAC address plus technetium (a radioactive substance) was found on some swabs, others had the usual graphene.
If we will be forced into the game again, do your best to cheat and protect your health.

At testing spit in a clear bowl and do everything else as instructed on the test, better if more members of the family spit, which case they won’t have your clear DNA, which can be important considering the sudden modification of organ donor law – like you are an organ donor by default whether you agree or not but if you don’t know and don’t opt out they you are.

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Reply to  COPHunter
1 year ago

Yes, I cited medical condition every time they would stop me to tell me I have to wear a mask in a shop and I responded to be exempt from wearing it. I have no condition. But one of the 10 exemptions published on gov website was causing severe panic or anxiety when putting mask on, wearing it, or putting it off, so I was prepared to argue this in court if necessary. I also knew it would never come to court because they had no leg to stand on. No law and judge would have to throw the case out but it would never come to it anyway. Never sanitised hands either. I generally don’t wash my hands that often anyway because I’m clean as it is and particularly I’m healthy because of this practice. I would drop piece of bread on the floor and would pick it up and eat it. It’s good for me and you. Stay smart and stay healthy! 🙂

Splish_Splash
Splish_Splash
1 year ago

Everything about COVID is a crime, from the very inception of being created in a lab, through all the lies and deception, through every time the phrase “safe and effective was used! The greatest crimes agains humanity since Adam and Eve! It is incomprehensible – I guess that is one reason most human beings just can’t believe or comprehend such evil. .Lucifer is real and he is PURE EVIL – after all he invented EVIL!

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Reply to  Splish_Splash
1 year ago

Well, they committed a lot of crimes against humanity for the last few millennia. They killed millions of people many times over, for example Stalin’s Russia, Holodomor, medieval inquisition, crucifixion of Jesus and many other fellow human beings just to name a few. But we are fast approaching and will likely exceed all the previous murders unless we murder them. It’s simple as that and quicker the people get their heads around that the better.

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