Of all the people who should be ripping into Emily for this, you should be doing it the most. Your paper being 'removed' from Medium was one of the first shots fired in the war to defend the covid narrative.
You weren't lucky, you did the work.
I wasn't lucky, I went to the official covid sites that showed official covid data and saw that it undermined the official covid narrative. The Diamond Princess was a near-perfect laboratory for covid study. Antibody tests done in April 2020 showing the virus was already FAR more widespread than we knew (because the virus was HERE earlier than we knew!) -- all of this stuff was completely ignored and in some cases viciously attacked.
Emily doesn't get to declare covid amnesty. We do.
Edit: Added a link in my latest article linking to this one. Incredibly well done!
What is with Medium? When I get the daily email of news posts most are nuts. Has Medium become a Woke Authoritarian echo chamber? It certainly does not appear to represent the left at least not teh classical Liberal Left, the group that in teh past you would find filled with persons like Brett Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying; 2 of the most intelligent and amazing liberals I've ever seen. There are numerous beliefs & ideas that we disagree about but they are sane acting, reasonable sounding. What's on Medium now does not.
This is exactly what happens when the left takes it over -- they remove all diversity of thought (the actual important kind) with people who LOOK diverse but will spout the same line on every subject imaginable.
While its the left doing this now the Right has done the same in the past. Either side when allowed too much power & control will be tempted to use unethical means to implement what they believe to be a just system. Back in the 80's the Right was trying to censor music it didn't like and regardless of whether you like that music ro not this is America and teh government does not have the authority to do something like this but teh Republican's felt comfortable enough to try it. It's only because of how hard teh L:eft pushed back that it failed to progress to a worse state like it has with the left today. The Right has for so many decades just taken whatever teh left has done without really pushing back. It has a few times reduced some of teh damage teh Left wanted to do but when in control and with teh power to do so the Republican party has never undone any of teh damage teh Left has caused. I will admit a good part of that is because Republican leadership is plagued with establishment hacks, sell-outs who work not for voters but special interest that make the best campaign donations.
What I found remarkable is that Wade produced a Medium paper that opened up the Lab Leak hypothesis in a time when others were being booted nearly everywhere. That was redone for Bull Atomic Sci and then a miracle, a paper in Science or PNAS (can't recall which) signed by notable names including Baric asking for more research. Wade was nearly tongue in cheek in his paper by weighing evidence but clear enough to assert the Lab origins. Those on SubStack had already understood the story of the wet market was improbable but we were all refugees from other platforms.
I must remember to stop my subscription. There are articles of interest but the majority is a bit in the wrong direction.
And now there's a whole lot more data than just VAERS to use. Nearly every metric that still leaks out is terrible for the vaccine narrative, yet it keeps getting pushed and pushed and pushed. Soon other countries will be suing vaccine makers for fraud and US 'experts' will be mandating covid shots to go to school.
And of course, the entire debacle started with classifying anybody on days 1-40 of the jab regimen as "unvaxxed" so they could cover up the 'worry window' in which you're actually more likely to get covid.
It's been fraud the entire time. 'Mistakes' don't all go in one direction
so IMHO this is a good thing: Now ALOT of parents arent just questioning the covid shots but ALL shots! We must all refuse to: Go to OBGYNS if we are healthy pregnant women and only use midwives. Nobody should go to pediatricians unless they are pro NON VAXXING. Otherwise use NDs, Homeopaths, DOs or non vaxx friendly primary MDS. Refuse to vaccinate AT ALL. if schools refuse religious exemptions, get together and sue. Meanwhile, pull all our kids out of public school and do homeschooling with community members in order to DECIMATE the schools. Play the chess game we did with Pay Pal.
I agree with about everything you say, but I can't bring myself to say it's a good thing. Maybe there are silver linings in the dark, ominous clouds. Yes, this is a quibble and I know it.
If doctors were interested in public health, they would have been stressing the links between obesity and vitamin D deficiency and bad covid outcomes. Along with age (which we can't do anything about), these things are tied to the worst outcomes. A 'real' doctor would have told everybody to walk outside in the sunshine for an hour a day on days it was possible. Instead we get this:
Indeed. Even the CDC told us in summer of ‘20 that 76% of hospitalized with Covid were obese. In the first month we heard that most hospitalized were vitamin D deficient. And yet our idiot health minister(web designer by trade) in Canada called promoting vitamin D “harmful misinformation”. To this day there is a warning about the toxicity of too much vitamin D. Saw through it all very early on but suffered immensly missing out on so many events & thought that I was going to lose my job when I declined declaring my personal health status. I will never forgive these ghouls for what they did and are still doing. With all the data that isn’t even debatable now, they are still pushing for kids to take these mRNA therapeutics.
Actually, vitamin D deficiency is linked with the elderly, the obese, those with liver dysfunction, and those with dark complexions. Which also happen to be linked to severe covid.
ive lived with their lies since my first born son was brain damaged by ONE DPT shot at age 4 months. My daughter , 7 years later, injured by ONE DTAP shot. permanent RA on disability for life. We dont expect these criminals in charge to tell ANYONE anything but lies. We spend our lives informing everyone we run Into the truth and then steer them in the right direction. THAT is how we stop this madness. Believe me, parents like me GET IT
The voice of the few can't overcome the loud roar of teh many even if it's a fake many created by the media because the media still have the power to influence. As long as they push a narrative that could be real and if they get "experts" on to discuss it the majority will accept it as fact without question,. This is because we've become a society that is specialized that we no longer can easily call BS on something if it's not in our specialty or at least many are afraid to for fear of being wrong and ridiculed.
Humans seek group acceptance because we are social creatures. If you have the power to convince people that they will not be accepted by the group, that they will be ridiculed outcasts if they refuse to go along with the perceived majority narrative most will not only bend the knee in compliance they will actually change their thought processes and believe that they were wrong and teh perceived majority narrative is correct. For that percent whom this doesn't work on you use intimidation to coerce them into compliance. It's all psychology, a psychological attack on human society.
Amnesty = Amnesia. Yet, we need severe punishment to prevent it from ever happening again and to start reparations: they should lose all their assets to pay for treatments. Start punishing the pro-digitatorship by voting against them!
How many lives can still be spared? some are still suicide vaxxing!
How many teen lives have been ruined with myocarditis when they knew in advance it would be widespread?
Very well said. My children were impacted in the worst ways by the policies that Ms. Oster and her ilk pushed. HIgh school and college kids lost formative years and experiences they will NEVER GET BACK. The stress of always being one test away from missing 2 weeks of your life is unfathomable to adults, right? Because students were the ones who that affected the most. I just won’t be able to forget what was done to kids.
Further, my 87 year old father was sick with cancer in the hospital and his wife of 62 years wasn’t allowed in. Who does this? Who thinks this is ok? At least he got to go home and die in his own bed holding my mother’s hand and not alone in a hospital. I’m crying as I write this because I find Ms. Oster’s writing so offensive.
And to boot, my kids couldn’t make the trip to the funeral of their grandfather because of stupid travel restrictions put in place by that tyrant Sununu….or they would have to quarantine for 14 days. But their cousins in other states could make the trip to Florida no problem.
All of what went on during the last (almost) 3 years was worse for our family because we knew from the get go what was up. We looked at the data and saw who was at risk. We saw through the nonsense and just couldn’t believe people fell for it!
We had to get exemptions for work and school in order to not be forced with an injection we neither needed nor wanted.
The fact that I and my family (including my 16 year old at the time) could see through it, anyone could if they had their eyes open. The nonsense that people believed was incomprehensible. I still struggle to understand how people believed any of it.
Will I forgive? Yes. My faith says that I need to forgive. It will take time. BUT, I will not forget. I want people to admit to their failures and some to be held accountable for their crimes (Birx, Fauci, Collins, Biden…the list is long). Because anything short of accountability, and this happens again. And in the not too distant future either.
im Jewish and lost half my family in the camps. I also have 2 out of 3 vaccine injured kids ( now adults) from one shot each. I will NEVER forgive these monsters. EVER. Nor should I or anyone else. and I will NEVER forget. I want them all to be held accountable in courts as well as public opinion.
Your whole comment resonates with me, thank you. I’ve spent the past three years being the outlier in my family unit, although I believe my teen son is closer to my positions, now. Tired of being looked at as the “loon” who understood truths about the “pandemic”, the virus, the toxic jabs, early on from the real scientists I followed since early 2020. The gaslighting and propaganda effects on otherwise intelligent people, was just astounding. Never before have I ever felt more like I and others were living in the matrix. The group think, ever so apparent, and the utter lack of curiosity and absence of critical thinking, was and is baffling. How do we heal from these past few years? How do our divided households heal, how to forgive the pain of being dismissed for our science and data driven positions so rudely. All of the truths around the pandemic that was unleashed and the coerced toxic shots, need to be unleashed on all, including the sleepers among us. Not about being “right” but certainly there are many of us who could use a smidgen of vindication…. And real apologies. Accountability is the deal breaker, without holding those to account who were in the position of making these decisions, there is no forgiveness.
You're spot on about the lack of curiosity. I think it might even be at the heart of the issue. No one (except a very small number of us) was asking any questions. I wonder if curiosity is something that has to be taught or is it innate? I'm thinking it can be taught and perhaps has been squelched in the schools.
Everything you said. Forgiving friends and family who have realized they were wrong, lied to, duped is one thing (I posted earlier that my 80 year old uncle in California was literally terrified because of what he heard -- while I think he would have known better, I understand why he reacted the way he did.) I don't hold grudges against people. But those in power? The media for not asking questions? The government for mandating vaccines and masks? Public health for lying to the public? Pharmaceutical companies and their cohorts in the CDC and FDA for falsifying data, manipulating people, gaslighting the public? And yes -- for Emily Oster who thought masks were wonderful and that employers should mandate vaccines, or anyone else with a platform to spread the pain and terror -- all of them, I can not forgive. And like you said, they didn't ask for forgiveness because they didn't think they did anything wrong.
Correct, those people weren't wrong, they were paid. Big Pharma was spending 3 out of 4 TV advertising dollars during the pandemic. (In the case of CDC/FDA, they were in on it)
What are the odds that these "reporters" can speak out against the company keeping their station afloat? Is it possible to go negative? Fauci says that if he had it to do all again, he'd go HARDER, and the media has to just bobblehead along, agreeing with whatever squirms out of his mouth.
Did you ever watch the TV show called Continuum? SciFi, but in the future corporations ran the government. I need to watch it again. I have never seen so many pharm commercials on TV until the last year. (I don't watch a lot of TV that I can't stream without commercials, except for sports -- and that's where I'm seeing them.)
And if you pay attention closely, you notice that half of every drug commercial is side effects. Every one EXCEPT the covid vaccine. Vaccine commercials were 100% rainbow and sunshine and "Won't it be great when you can get your life back?"
My guess is this is because the government itself paid for the vax ads, getting around all those pesky regulations designed to provide a semblance of informed consent.
under the CARES ACT and PREP ACT, it removed ANY requirement for informed consent. thats how they tortured patients and their families and wholesale murdered everyone.
excellent article. I will add that Emily is actually terrified what will come for HER and HER family now the Rats are fleeing the ship. Additionally, her choice of words, "Gloating, Racking up points, Keeping a score card" is more what SHE and her COvidiot buddies did. Shes projecting! As an EX democrat who will vote RED this time for whichever candidate commits to Protecting speech and bodily autonomy. Im aware there really isn't a real election and this is not a Left/Right issue but at this point this is all I have that I can do. Aside from my constant preaching to people which Ive been doing since 2 of my 3 children were vaccine injured in the 80s and 90s. I NEVER FORGOT.
I think it's fair to ask....was Emily doing this because she was paid to do so? How bad would that look coming out? We know government paid off all kinds of 'influencers' to promote the vaccine:
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been exposed running the most disturbing and elaborate propaganda campaign in living memory. Screen writers, comedians, influencers and church leaders, among others, were recruited and paid to promote Covid-19 vaccines to the masses, while ridiculing and shaming those who refuse the jab.
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How worried would you be if you knew your name was on this list, just waiting for somebody like Rand Paul to parade it in front of the TV cameras?
well it appears she was being paid by the Koch brothers org to do her data site. I have no faith in Rand Paul. He had the goods on fauci and held back intentionally. I have ZERO faith in that coward. We called Paul for decades to speak out about deadly children's vaccines. For chronic pain patients. Ron Johnson is more likely to do something big. We all wont be satisfied or silenced with another 911 commission.
Sadly it seems that unless the Republicans are actually in charge of the committees and set the rules, they can't actually do anything. (As always, I may be mistaken on this)
I agree. I think that the change in narrative over the last few days is because they are terrified of white information is going to come out. These people need to be removed from civilization and permanently exiled.
AJ Kay - Thanks for writing on Substack. You are so thoughtful and brave, and that can only be expressed in "Long Form Journalism". Even new-Twitter with Elon is a silly forum. I hope to read you here, and happy to support $$$.
I work for a hospital in a city and state with the harshest of vaccine mandates. The leadership was utterly ruthless in denying any exemptions and firing staff. We to this day have severe staffing shortages in virtually every department. This is undoubtedly multi factorial but I sense that the vax firings play a role.
I am sure that the political pressure to do this was immense, given the dependence of hospitals on the government for funding and the regulatory power of the state.
At the time this simply bothered me on a gut level. As time has passed, as all of the other “disinformation” had turned out to be true, it is clear that this was very wrong.
Stories like this are what make me suspect that this is just a massive “compiler error”. One bad decision execution leads to another bad decision that leads to a fatal error in the system. The inability to correct the fatal error results in a complete collapse of the processing system.
As a programmer, I might be tempted to believe this. But humans are not computer code; they arent't compelled to simply follow the instructions of any system.
In retrospect everyone knew about China and then Italy, but through January - mid February it was 100% business as usual. Some attention through early March and then all fell broke loose.
We had a suspected covert case which was in the local media which turned out not to be Covid. The sample was sent to the CDC on a Monday, yet the results did not come back until Friday. I remember thinking that if this is a real pandemic, this is going to be a huge issue. And it was…
I felt then and am convinced now that the response was purely political.
This is why AJ's original paper had to be removed from the conversation -- even though bloodwork shows that it was true.
If the virus was here before we admit (it was) and we were living with it through the winter months in which we were traveling and gathering together (we were), then we didn't even notice it (because old and sick people tend to die during winter).
This destroys the entire covid narrative and highlights the fact that OUR RESPONSE to covid was much, much worse than anything the virus could have done. In fact, in some places they SPED UP THE CURVE by infecting all the at-risk at once. (Then later, Fauci claims they 'did it correctly')
I want to walk the line between hyperbole and fact, but it's possible that AJ's original paper could have saved the world -- and that's why it had to be attacked, just like the GBD.
Edit: Oh, and it's not a coincidence that covid mania got started in earnest RIGHT AFTER impeachment theater failed.
I have no doubt that the response was motivated to eliminate Trump. And yes COVID hysteria started after the failed impeachment. Putting aside his persona, consider how calm the country and globe was in 2017-2019 — putting aside the mass hysteria generated by the media. Now we have a proxy war with a nuclear power, massive inflation, a recession, and utter chaos.
I'm convinced my entire family, and practically half of SoCal, had the virus in Winter 2019.
We had never heard of "coronavirus" at the time, of course-- we simply thought it was just a nasty flu.
The govt can never admit the virus was here earlier, because then they'd have to explain how we all survived without masking, lockdowns, vaccines. It would invalidate the entire plandemic.
What was AJ's original paper about? I am new to this blog.
Basically, AJ lays out the case that the virus was here earlier than we realized and we didn't even notice, therefore everything we were doing was pants-on-head stupid.
April 3, 2020. About a week into my state's lockdown.
It was clear from very early on in 2020 that kids were at almost no risk from Covid. So there should be no “amnesty” for the people who relentlessly worked to deny kids an education.
It was also clear early on that the vaccines did not prevent spread. So those who wanted to bully people into getting a vaccine they neither wanted nor needed are also culpable. There should be no amnesty for them either.
Unfortunately, some who purport to be in our side are all for amnesty here. With respect to the loathsome Leana Wen, for example.
It’s about justice. And also incentives. The people who wrecked the country with a deeply irrational response to Covid deserve a penalty. And if they do not get penalized sufficiently, they will do it again.
Exactly this. This article is discussing March-June 2020 in NYC -- the worst-hit place in the country at a time that acquired immunity was at its lowest. Also BEFORE masks:
Throughout the pandemic, many child care centers have stayed open for the children of front-line workers — everyone from doctors to grocery store clerks. YMCA of the USA and New York City's Department of Education have been caring for, collectively, tens of thousands of children since March, and both tell NPR they have no reports of coronavirus clusters or outbreaks.
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This was all known long before the 'experts' canceled fall 2020's school year, much less 2021.
The early data from China, Italy and South Korea all suggested a median age of death ~80. There never was a good reason to close schools. That’s abundantly clear. Anyone in a position of authority in politics or public health who advocated school closures ought to be held to account. No amnesty.
Moving my comment to match your reposted comment :)
Yep. The only difference between 'normal' age of death and covid age of death charts are that very very young kids die of a lot of things -- but not from covid.
This, 8 days before the round of elections that will be the best referendum on U.S. policies, is curious timing for the Atlantic to put up Oster's piece.
Why else have this talk about amnesty, even as so many of the policies are still around?
She doesn't really want forgiveness. She just wants to be free of consequences from her and her cohorts' decisions and actions. It's entirely self-motivated.
My Father In Law and Mother in Law were going to fly to visit us the week mask mandates on planes started. We collectively decided it wasn't a good time to fly, and they should come later.
They both died, in 2021 and early 2022. The stress of the mandates where they were living made them decide to move, and they had an accident while moving. We didn't get to see them before they passed. We still can't visit with my husband's family in the states due to the border restrictions.
My kids will never know their awesome grandparents. Words cannot express how sad I am over that loss.
“… we need to learn from our mistakes and let them go.”
People don't learn from mistakes if there are no negative consequences. Also, the whole scamdemic looks like a premeditated crime of massive proportions, completely deliberate, not just dolts botching shit.
Hang 'em high! Every single traitor in charge of the creating the virus, suppressing alternate treatments, and the poisonous clotshots!
Hello! For reasons I don't completely understand, I have a semi-large following on here. I wrote an article on this topic today and one of my readers sent me your post. I think it was well done. If you would like to see the response I wrote to this (and use any of what I wrote etc) please do. I think this is a really important topic to educate people on.
ACIP recently recommended these injections for the childhood vaccination schedule. Not only are they not admitting they were wrong, they are continuing to knowingly inflict more harm - on our children. They are willfully and knowingly inflicting harm on the least likely to suffer from the virus and the most vulnerable in our population - kids. Why? Because they want immunity from prosecution for vaccine injuries and, at a minimum, they don’t care a whit about our children’s health.
Prescient article and completely correct. The final outcome was foreseeable from the beginning in 2020 once the authoritarian policies made themselves known. These people in government, science, academia, media need to be removed or step down to prevent the continuation of these policies into other areas like economics (money printing, inflation, CBDCs), international politics (pushing war with Russia and a proxy war no one wants) and environmental policies (blocking nuclear whilst pushing carbon and nitrogen targets with worthless renewable solutions). There is no time like the present for these people to be removed/step down/be voted out.
Of all the people who should be ripping into Emily for this, you should be doing it the most. Your paper being 'removed' from Medium was one of the first shots fired in the war to defend the covid narrative.
You weren't lucky, you did the work.
I wasn't lucky, I went to the official covid sites that showed official covid data and saw that it undermined the official covid narrative. The Diamond Princess was a near-perfect laboratory for covid study. Antibody tests done in April 2020 showing the virus was already FAR more widespread than we knew (because the virus was HERE earlier than we knew!) -- all of this stuff was completely ignored and in some cases viciously attacked.
Emily doesn't get to declare covid amnesty. We do.
Edit: Added a link in my latest article linking to this one. Incredibly well done!
Diamond Princess is what made me realize this was BS. A CFR under 1% for the most vulnerable population….this was just a bizarre “flu like illness”.
Released to scare the most WOKE harbor on the planet, the SF Bay Area
Yes, I actually quit Medium over their ignominious censorship of that paper.
What is with Medium? When I get the daily email of news posts most are nuts. Has Medium become a Woke Authoritarian echo chamber? It certainly does not appear to represent the left at least not teh classical Liberal Left, the group that in teh past you would find filled with persons like Brett Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying; 2 of the most intelligent and amazing liberals I've ever seen. There are numerous beliefs & ideas that we disagree about but they are sane acting, reasonable sounding. What's on Medium now does not.
This is exactly what happens when the left takes it over -- they remove all diversity of thought (the actual important kind) with people who LOOK diverse but will spout the same line on every subject imaginable.
It happened to Reddit.
While its the left doing this now the Right has done the same in the past. Either side when allowed too much power & control will be tempted to use unethical means to implement what they believe to be a just system. Back in the 80's the Right was trying to censor music it didn't like and regardless of whether you like that music ro not this is America and teh government does not have the authority to do something like this but teh Republican's felt comfortable enough to try it. It's only because of how hard teh L:eft pushed back that it failed to progress to a worse state like it has with the left today. The Right has for so many decades just taken whatever teh left has done without really pushing back. It has a few times reduced some of teh damage teh Left wanted to do but when in control and with teh power to do so the Republican party has never undone any of teh damage teh Left has caused. I will admit a good part of that is because Republican leadership is plagued with establishment hacks, sell-outs who work not for voters but special interest that make the best campaign donations.
What I found remarkable is that Wade produced a Medium paper that opened up the Lab Leak hypothesis in a time when others were being booted nearly everywhere. That was redone for Bull Atomic Sci and then a miracle, a paper in Science or PNAS (can't recall which) signed by notable names including Baric asking for more research. Wade was nearly tongue in cheek in his paper by weighing evidence but clear enough to assert the Lab origins. Those on SubStack had already understood the story of the wet market was improbable but we were all refugees from other platforms.
I must remember to stop my subscription. There are articles of interest but the majority is a bit in the wrong direction.
I don't know how many times I showed the VAERS data to everyone and showed the enormous rise in everything, only to have it fall on deaf ears.
And now there's a whole lot more data than just VAERS to use. Nearly every metric that still leaks out is terrible for the vaccine narrative, yet it keeps getting pushed and pushed and pushed. Soon other countries will be suing vaccine makers for fraud and US 'experts' will be mandating covid shots to go to school.
And of course, the entire debacle started with classifying anybody on days 1-40 of the jab regimen as "unvaxxed" so they could cover up the 'worry window' in which you're actually more likely to get covid.
It's been fraud the entire time. 'Mistakes' don't all go in one direction
so IMHO this is a good thing: Now ALOT of parents arent just questioning the covid shots but ALL shots! We must all refuse to: Go to OBGYNS if we are healthy pregnant women and only use midwives. Nobody should go to pediatricians unless they are pro NON VAXXING. Otherwise use NDs, Homeopaths, DOs or non vaxx friendly primary MDS. Refuse to vaccinate AT ALL. if schools refuse religious exemptions, get together and sue. Meanwhile, pull all our kids out of public school and do homeschooling with community members in order to DECIMATE the schools. Play the chess game we did with Pay Pal.
I agree with about everything you say, but I can't bring myself to say it's a good thing. Maybe there are silver linings in the dark, ominous clouds. Yes, this is a quibble and I know it.
If doctors were interested in public health, they would have been stressing the links between obesity and vitamin D deficiency and bad covid outcomes. Along with age (which we can't do anything about), these things are tied to the worst outcomes. A 'real' doctor would have told everybody to walk outside in the sunshine for an hour a day on days it was possible. Instead we get this:
https://vimeo.com/765948477
Indeed. Even the CDC told us in summer of ‘20 that 76% of hospitalized with Covid were obese. In the first month we heard that most hospitalized were vitamin D deficient. And yet our idiot health minister(web designer by trade) in Canada called promoting vitamin D “harmful misinformation”. To this day there is a warning about the toxicity of too much vitamin D. Saw through it all very early on but suffered immensly missing out on so many events & thought that I was going to lose my job when I declined declaring my personal health status. I will never forgive these ghouls for what they did and are still doing. With all the data that isn’t even debatable now, they are still pushing for kids to take these mRNA therapeutics.
Actually, vitamin D deficiency is linked with the elderly, the obese, those with liver dysfunction, and those with dark complexions. Which also happen to be linked to severe covid.
ive lived with their lies since my first born son was brain damaged by ONE DPT shot at age 4 months. My daughter , 7 years later, injured by ONE DTAP shot. permanent RA on disability for life. We dont expect these criminals in charge to tell ANYONE anything but lies. We spend our lives informing everyone we run Into the truth and then steer them in the right direction. THAT is how we stop this madness. Believe me, parents like me GET IT
The voice of the few can't overcome the loud roar of teh many even if it's a fake many created by the media because the media still have the power to influence. As long as they push a narrative that could be real and if they get "experts" on to discuss it the majority will accept it as fact without question,. This is because we've become a society that is specialized that we no longer can easily call BS on something if it's not in our specialty or at least many are afraid to for fear of being wrong and ridiculed.
Humans seek group acceptance because we are social creatures. If you have the power to convince people that they will not be accepted by the group, that they will be ridiculed outcasts if they refuse to go along with the perceived majority narrative most will not only bend the knee in compliance they will actually change their thought processes and believe that they were wrong and teh perceived majority narrative is correct. For that percent whom this doesn't work on you use intimidation to coerce them into compliance. It's all psychology, a psychological attack on human society.
Whats that quote?
"Humans go mad in crowds, but recover their senses one mind at a time."
Amnesty = Amnesia. Yet, we need severe punishment to prevent it from ever happening again and to start reparations: they should lose all their assets to pay for treatments. Start punishing the pro-digitatorship by voting against them!
How many lives can still be spared? some are still suicide vaxxing!
How many teen lives have been ruined with myocarditis when they knew in advance it would be widespread?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-myocarditis-mammoth-in-the-er
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/satattack
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/water-poisoning-they-drink-perrier
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/will-tedros-ever-go-to-jail
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-the-international-plandemic
Very well said. My children were impacted in the worst ways by the policies that Ms. Oster and her ilk pushed. HIgh school and college kids lost formative years and experiences they will NEVER GET BACK. The stress of always being one test away from missing 2 weeks of your life is unfathomable to adults, right? Because students were the ones who that affected the most. I just won’t be able to forget what was done to kids.
Further, my 87 year old father was sick with cancer in the hospital and his wife of 62 years wasn’t allowed in. Who does this? Who thinks this is ok? At least he got to go home and die in his own bed holding my mother’s hand and not alone in a hospital. I’m crying as I write this because I find Ms. Oster’s writing so offensive.
And to boot, my kids couldn’t make the trip to the funeral of their grandfather because of stupid travel restrictions put in place by that tyrant Sununu….or they would have to quarantine for 14 days. But their cousins in other states could make the trip to Florida no problem.
All of what went on during the last (almost) 3 years was worse for our family because we knew from the get go what was up. We looked at the data and saw who was at risk. We saw through the nonsense and just couldn’t believe people fell for it!
We had to get exemptions for work and school in order to not be forced with an injection we neither needed nor wanted.
The fact that I and my family (including my 16 year old at the time) could see through it, anyone could if they had their eyes open. The nonsense that people believed was incomprehensible. I still struggle to understand how people believed any of it.
Will I forgive? Yes. My faith says that I need to forgive. It will take time. BUT, I will not forget. I want people to admit to their failures and some to be held accountable for their crimes (Birx, Fauci, Collins, Biden…the list is long). Because anything short of accountability, and this happens again. And in the not too distant future either.
im Jewish and lost half my family in the camps. I also have 2 out of 3 vaccine injured kids ( now adults) from one shot each. I will NEVER forgive these monsters. EVER. Nor should I or anyone else. and I will NEVER forget. I want them all to be held accountable in courts as well as public opinion.
Your whole comment resonates with me, thank you. I’ve spent the past three years being the outlier in my family unit, although I believe my teen son is closer to my positions, now. Tired of being looked at as the “loon” who understood truths about the “pandemic”, the virus, the toxic jabs, early on from the real scientists I followed since early 2020. The gaslighting and propaganda effects on otherwise intelligent people, was just astounding. Never before have I ever felt more like I and others were living in the matrix. The group think, ever so apparent, and the utter lack of curiosity and absence of critical thinking, was and is baffling. How do we heal from these past few years? How do our divided households heal, how to forgive the pain of being dismissed for our science and data driven positions so rudely. All of the truths around the pandemic that was unleashed and the coerced toxic shots, need to be unleashed on all, including the sleepers among us. Not about being “right” but certainly there are many of us who could use a smidgen of vindication…. And real apologies. Accountability is the deal breaker, without holding those to account who were in the position of making these decisions, there is no forgiveness.
You're spot on about the lack of curiosity. I think it might even be at the heart of the issue. No one (except a very small number of us) was asking any questions. I wonder if curiosity is something that has to be taught or is it innate? I'm thinking it can be taught and perhaps has been squelched in the schools.
Everything you said. Forgiving friends and family who have realized they were wrong, lied to, duped is one thing (I posted earlier that my 80 year old uncle in California was literally terrified because of what he heard -- while I think he would have known better, I understand why he reacted the way he did.) I don't hold grudges against people. But those in power? The media for not asking questions? The government for mandating vaccines and masks? Public health for lying to the public? Pharmaceutical companies and their cohorts in the CDC and FDA for falsifying data, manipulating people, gaslighting the public? And yes -- for Emily Oster who thought masks were wonderful and that employers should mandate vaccines, or anyone else with a platform to spread the pain and terror -- all of them, I can not forgive. And like you said, they didn't ask for forgiveness because they didn't think they did anything wrong.
Correct, those people weren't wrong, they were paid. Big Pharma was spending 3 out of 4 TV advertising dollars during the pandemic. (In the case of CDC/FDA, they were in on it)
https://www.brown-watch.com/brownwatch-news/2022/4/3/75-of-tv-advertising-is-from-big-pharma
That's why everything is brought to you by Pfizer:
https://rumble.com/vo082r-everything-brought-to-you-by-pfizer.html
What are the odds that these "reporters" can speak out against the company keeping their station afloat? Is it possible to go negative? Fauci says that if he had it to do all again, he'd go HARDER, and the media has to just bobblehead along, agreeing with whatever squirms out of his mouth.
Did you ever watch the TV show called Continuum? SciFi, but in the future corporations ran the government. I need to watch it again. I have never seen so many pharm commercials on TV until the last year. (I don't watch a lot of TV that I can't stream without commercials, except for sports -- and that's where I'm seeing them.)
100% correct. The volume of ads on television for prescription drugs and the “vaccine”, is mind-boggling.
And if you pay attention closely, you notice that half of every drug commercial is side effects. Every one EXCEPT the covid vaccine. Vaccine commercials were 100% rainbow and sunshine and "Won't it be great when you can get your life back?"
My guess is this is because the government itself paid for the vax ads, getting around all those pesky regulations designed to provide a semblance of informed consent.
under the CARES ACT and PREP ACT, it removed ANY requirement for informed consent. thats how they tortured patients and their families and wholesale murdered everyone.
One loophole around "side effects may include..." is if they don't refer to a specific medication by name or brand.
So if the commercial just talks about COVID vaccines in general, no need for the side effects disclaimer.
So we will likely never see specific commercials for Pfizer Comirnaty, or Moderna Spikevax.
That said... pretty sure they were not allowed to advertise EUA products, until they get full approval.
So it was awfully convenient how the govt did all of the marketing, via public health messaging (fear mongering & propaganda).
Removing these people from civilization is the only way we will heal. They must be punished for what they have done to our society.
excellent article. I will add that Emily is actually terrified what will come for HER and HER family now the Rats are fleeing the ship. Additionally, her choice of words, "Gloating, Racking up points, Keeping a score card" is more what SHE and her COvidiot buddies did. Shes projecting! As an EX democrat who will vote RED this time for whichever candidate commits to Protecting speech and bodily autonomy. Im aware there really isn't a real election and this is not a Left/Right issue but at this point this is all I have that I can do. Aside from my constant preaching to people which Ive been doing since 2 of my 3 children were vaccine injured in the 80s and 90s. I NEVER FORGOT.
I think it's fair to ask....was Emily doing this because she was paid to do so? How bad would that look coming out? We know government paid off all kinds of 'influencers' to promote the vaccine:
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https://newspunch.com/bidens-hhs-and-cdc-paid-screen-writers-and-comedians-to-mock-the-unvaccinated/
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been exposed running the most disturbing and elaborate propaganda campaign in living memory. Screen writers, comedians, influencers and church leaders, among others, were recruited and paid to promote Covid-19 vaccines to the masses, while ridiculing and shaming those who refuse the jab.
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How worried would you be if you knew your name was on this list, just waiting for somebody like Rand Paul to parade it in front of the TV cameras?
well it appears she was being paid by the Koch brothers org to do her data site. I have no faith in Rand Paul. He had the goods on fauci and held back intentionally. I have ZERO faith in that coward. We called Paul for decades to speak out about deadly children's vaccines. For chronic pain patients. Ron Johnson is more likely to do something big. We all wont be satisfied or silenced with another 911 commission.
So true! The congressional hearings on vacveens in the early 2000's barely made a dent
Sadly it seems that unless the Republicans are actually in charge of the committees and set the rules, they can't actually do anything. (As always, I may be mistaken on this)
Sadly it seems that when they DO have power they fecklessly do nothing!
I agree. I think that the change in narrative over the last few days is because they are terrified of white information is going to come out. These people need to be removed from civilization and permanently exiled.
AJ Kay - Thanks for writing on Substack. You are so thoughtful and brave, and that can only be expressed in "Long Form Journalism". Even new-Twitter with Elon is a silly forum. I hope to read you here, and happy to support $$$.
Keep going, please.
I work for a hospital in a city and state with the harshest of vaccine mandates. The leadership was utterly ruthless in denying any exemptions and firing staff. We to this day have severe staffing shortages in virtually every department. This is undoubtedly multi factorial but I sense that the vax firings play a role.
I am sure that the political pressure to do this was immense, given the dependence of hospitals on the government for funding and the regulatory power of the state.
At the time this simply bothered me on a gut level. As time has passed, as all of the other “disinformation” had turned out to be true, it is clear that this was very wrong.
Stories like this are what make me suspect that this is just a massive “compiler error”. One bad decision execution leads to another bad decision that leads to a fatal error in the system. The inability to correct the fatal error results in a complete collapse of the processing system.
As a programmer, I might be tempted to believe this. But humans are not computer code; they arent't compelled to simply follow the instructions of any system.
In retrospect everyone knew about China and then Italy, but through January - mid February it was 100% business as usual. Some attention through early March and then all fell broke loose.
We had a suspected covert case which was in the local media which turned out not to be Covid. The sample was sent to the CDC on a Monday, yet the results did not come back until Friday. I remember thinking that if this is a real pandemic, this is going to be a huge issue. And it was…
I felt then and am convinced now that the response was purely political.
This is why AJ's original paper had to be removed from the conversation -- even though bloodwork shows that it was true.
If the virus was here before we admit (it was) and we were living with it through the winter months in which we were traveling and gathering together (we were), then we didn't even notice it (because old and sick people tend to die during winter).
This destroys the entire covid narrative and highlights the fact that OUR RESPONSE to covid was much, much worse than anything the virus could have done. In fact, in some places they SPED UP THE CURVE by infecting all the at-risk at once. (Then later, Fauci claims they 'did it correctly')
I want to walk the line between hyperbole and fact, but it's possible that AJ's original paper could have saved the world -- and that's why it had to be attacked, just like the GBD.
Edit: Oh, and it's not a coincidence that covid mania got started in earnest RIGHT AFTER impeachment theater failed.
I have no doubt that the response was motivated to eliminate Trump. And yes COVID hysteria started after the failed impeachment. Putting aside his persona, consider how calm the country and globe was in 2017-2019 — putting aside the mass hysteria generated by the media. Now we have a proxy war with a nuclear power, massive inflation, a recession, and utter chaos.
I wish more people understood this.
I'm convinced my entire family, and practically half of SoCal, had the virus in Winter 2019.
We had never heard of "coronavirus" at the time, of course-- we simply thought it was just a nasty flu.
The govt can never admit the virus was here earlier, because then they'd have to explain how we all survived without masking, lockdowns, vaccines. It would invalidate the entire plandemic.
What was AJ's original paper about? I am new to this blog.
In essence the so-called virus is the 'flu but what the 'flu actually is has been misunderstood for some time. I only understood it in 2020.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/what-is-the-flu-aka-covid-19-and
https://www.ajkaywriter.com/latest-essays/the-curve-is-already-flat
Basically, AJ lays out the case that the virus was here earlier than we realized and we didn't even notice, therefore everything we were doing was pants-on-head stupid.
April 3, 2020. About a week into my state's lockdown.
The whole thing was fake as virology as mainstream understands it is fake, a lie.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/wuhan-flu
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/what-is-the-flu-aka-covid-19-and
It was clear from very early on in 2020 that kids were at almost no risk from Covid. So there should be no “amnesty” for the people who relentlessly worked to deny kids an education.
It was also clear early on that the vaccines did not prevent spread. So those who wanted to bully people into getting a vaccine they neither wanted nor needed are also culpable. There should be no amnesty for them either.
Unfortunately, some who purport to be in our side are all for amnesty here. With respect to the loathsome Leana Wen, for example.
It’s about justice. And also incentives. The people who wrecked the country with a deeply irrational response to Covid deserve a penalty. And if they do not get penalized sufficiently, they will do it again.
Exactly this. This article is discussing March-June 2020 in NYC -- the worst-hit place in the country at a time that acquired immunity was at its lowest. Also BEFORE masks:
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https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882316641/what-parents-can-learn-from-child-care-centers-that-stayed-open-during-lockdowns
Throughout the pandemic, many child care centers have stayed open for the children of front-line workers — everyone from doctors to grocery store clerks. YMCA of the USA and New York City's Department of Education have been caring for, collectively, tens of thousands of children since March, and both tell NPR they have no reports of coronavirus clusters or outbreaks.
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This was all known long before the 'experts' canceled fall 2020's school year, much less 2021.
The early data from China, Italy and South Korea all suggested a median age of death ~80. There never was a good reason to close schools. That’s abundantly clear. Anyone in a position of authority in politics or public health who advocated school closures ought to be held to account. No amnesty.
Moving my comment to match your reposted comment :)
Yep. The only difference between 'normal' age of death and covid age of death charts are that very very young kids die of a lot of things -- but not from covid.
https://imgur.com/a/Nemsp9g
This, 8 days before the round of elections that will be the best referendum on U.S. policies, is curious timing for the Atlantic to put up Oster's piece.
Why else have this talk about amnesty, even as so many of the policies are still around?
She doesn't really want forgiveness. She just wants to be free of consequences from her and her cohorts' decisions and actions. It's entirely self-motivated.
My Father In Law and Mother in Law were going to fly to visit us the week mask mandates on planes started. We collectively decided it wasn't a good time to fly, and they should come later.
They both died, in 2021 and early 2022. The stress of the mandates where they were living made them decide to move, and they had an accident while moving. We didn't get to see them before they passed. We still can't visit with my husband's family in the states due to the border restrictions.
My kids will never know their awesome grandparents. Words cannot express how sad I am over that loss.
“… we need to learn from our mistakes and let them go.”
People don't learn from mistakes if there are no negative consequences. Also, the whole scamdemic looks like a premeditated crime of massive proportions, completely deliberate, not just dolts botching shit.
Hang 'em high! Every single traitor in charge of the creating the virus, suppressing alternate treatments, and the poisonous clotshots!
Oster is the human equivalent of a phone voice menu. Press 1 to hear this week's BS. Press 2 to hear why ...
There is no debating them.
She is scared. She knows that the tide is turning and that Nuremberg 2.0 is coming.
Let's show the receipts in court--RICO and fraud actions. Maybe we can also generate some criminal cases.
Hello! For reasons I don't completely understand, I have a semi-large following on here. I wrote an article on this topic today and one of my readers sent me your post. I think it was well done. If you would like to see the response I wrote to this (and use any of what I wrote etc) please do. I think this is a really important topic to educate people on.
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/dissecting-the-deceptive-plea-for
ACIP recently recommended these injections for the childhood vaccination schedule. Not only are they not admitting they were wrong, they are continuing to knowingly inflict more harm - on our children. They are willfully and knowingly inflicting harm on the least likely to suffer from the virus and the most vulnerable in our population - kids. Why? Because they want immunity from prosecution for vaccine injuries and, at a minimum, they don’t care a whit about our children’s health.
Prescient article and completely correct. The final outcome was foreseeable from the beginning in 2020 once the authoritarian policies made themselves known. These people in government, science, academia, media need to be removed or step down to prevent the continuation of these policies into other areas like economics (money printing, inflation, CBDCs), international politics (pushing war with Russia and a proxy war no one wants) and environmental policies (blocking nuclear whilst pushing carbon and nitrogen targets with worthless renewable solutions). There is no time like the present for these people to be removed/step down/be voted out.