“All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true within itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
In Follow “The Science” Pt. 3, I introduced the “Big Lie” which has been used by people in power probably since man was able to speak. It is used by people who want control over the masses to get them to go along with actions and policies that may seem questionable, or even abhorrent, to a critical, rational mind. The use of propaganda is paramount in promoting and reinforcing the Big Lie, and once you understand what it looks like, you begin to see how propaganda has infiltrated almost every aspect of our lives, not just COVID.
What is the “Big Lie” exactly? It’s just as Hitler stated in Mein Kampf. It’s a lie so big that even though there are facts laying bare the lie being told, most human minds cannot believe that the Big Lie is not the truth since they themselves could not fathom telling a lie of such magnitude.
A couple of examples that come to mind are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam which led to major conflicts lasting years and costing millions of lives. Even though the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war, Congress has not officially declared war since 1942, but we have waged war in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Panama, Grenada, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, etc. Perhaps Congress knows something we rubes do not.
Big Lies are sold with kernels of truth embedded in them making them sound just plausible enough that surely, they must be true. They also like to use terms such as “the greater good.” Let’s resume our journey down the rabbit hole and explore some of the untrue truths.
Biden’s Mandate Speech
President Biden claims in his speech that when he became president only about 2 million Americans were fully vaccinated, and at the time of this speech over 175 million had been vaccinated indicating that vaccine efforts were stuck in the mud prior to his arrival. While it probably is a true that only 2 million were fully vaccinated when he became president in January, the vaccine was not rolled out until December 13th. Is he claiming he could have had 175 million people vaccinated in the first 30 days after the vaccine was unleashed?
By the way, this is the same vaccine and plan that Biden and Harris stated could not be trusted to be safe and effective in September of 2020 under Trump, but all is good now that he’s in office!
He also states:
“the world’s leading scientists confirm that if you are fully vaccinated, your risk of severe illness from COVID-19 is very low.”
That is perhaps true, but it is also true that anyone’s risk of severe illness from COVID-19 is very low (less than 1% for all but those in the 85+ age group) regardless of vaccination status based on the CDC’s own data which I highlighted in Follow “The Science” Pt. 2.
The last thing I will point out is his contradiction that even though you’ve had the vaccine and you’re safe because it works so well, “We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers. We’re going to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by increasing the share of workforce that is vaccinated in businesses all across America.”
He made these statements after it was acknowledged by the CDC that the vaccines do not prevent the spread of COVID.
Can someone please help me answer the following questions?
- If the vaccine works so well, why do you need protection from unvaccinated people?
- If not the unvaccinated, from who or what do you have great protection?
- If the vaccine does not prevent you from being infected or transmitting the virus, how does getting vaccinated reduce the spread?
- What is the purpose of the mandate if the vaccine works/doesn’t work at protecting you, but definitely does not prevent you from catching COVID or spreading it?
The Re-Direct
Take a few minutes to listen to the following excerpt from an interview with Dr. Fauci conducted by Sara Eisen from CNBC.
I’m sure this interview has been memory holed by CNBC which is why I’m using the link to Sara’s twitter page.
In his response to the first question, Fauci literally spends 2 seconds admitting that he has been speaking out about the vaccine’s inability to prevent infection and transmission, and then sets us straight with “The Science” by rambling for 1 minute and 33 seconds with a bunch of statistics about benefits of the vaccines. I call this re-directing because the intent is to take focus off the original question, and continue promoting the narrative about the supposed effectiveness of the vaccines that aren’t vaccines with kernels of truth in the statistics all while trying to avoid the uncomfortable truth.
For example, Fauci states that an unvaccinated person is 5 times more likely to be infected, 11 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die than a vaccinated person. He also states that 90%+ of all deaths from COVID have occurred among the unvaccinated. These statistics are probably fairly accurate!
But,
These statistics include all infections, hospitalizations, and deaths going back to the first day they began recording these numbers in early 2020. They also don’t tell you whether the cut off point for this data they reference was through yesterday, June, or April. Remember, fewer than 2 million people were vaccinated when Biden became president in January.
At one point, 100% of deaths and hospitalizations were among the unvaccinated because there were no vaccines! A picture is worth a thousand words.
On February 11th of this year, 500,000 people had supposedly died with COVID, but fewer than 25 million people had been fully vaccinated.
Remember, statistics are like police confessions. Beat the numbers around long enough and they will tell you what you want to hear. Intentionally misrepresenting real data points is a marketing tactic to make your product or service look better than it is in reality, and I’ve personally seen this used in business many times. The information has some elements of truth, but it’s not the truth in the intended context.
A more accurate, sincere, and truthful way to present the data would be to compare hospitalizations and deaths amongst a cohort of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals after the vaccine rollout began. Based on Fauci’s response, they have that data so why don’t they show it on the CDC’s website?
Fortunately (or unfortunately for Fauci,) an astute Sara Eisen calls Fauci out on the fact that the CDC is not in fact tracking break through infections, with the supposed exception of severe cases. As a reminder, a breakthrough case is only counted by the CDC if the person is hospitalized or dies, and that’s if it gets reported to the CDC.
Again, Fauci admits the truth here, but states the CDC is making changes and tracking that information now. Okay, so how can they make the claims that they continue to make without the actual data?
Because they said so. Now stop asking these hard questions!
Fauci then goes on to talk about the phenomenal results the Israelis are having with the 3rd booster shot and early data is showing that it may diminish transmission. In fact, it’s going so well, they are already planning a 4th booster!
You might have also caught that he mentions the vaccine can diminish hospitalization and death by 50%. What happened to the good old days of 95% effective? If you recall in Follow “The Science” Pt. 3, the relative risk reduction (RRR) of Pfizer’s gene therapy was 95%, but the absolute risk reduction (ARR) which shows the true effectiveness of a treatment was only .7% - .9%. So now that the RRR has effectively been reduced by almost 50%, the ARR is now less than .5%.
A Message From On High!
Who needs data when the Almighty has proclaimed you as the chosen one to spread his message?
Unelected, interim New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, and gave a performance that would make Jimmy Swaggart envious. Among other incredulous aspects of her speech, she claims to understand the challenges of being new to this country because her grandparents were immigrants.
What does her grandparents being immigrants have to do with her understanding the challenges of immigrants today? By the way, unless you are a first-generation citizen, your ancestors were immigrants as well. Does that also give you an understanding of what it’s like to be a new immigrant in America today?
Hochul also talks about the wonderfully generous people such as Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Kirsten Gillibrand, and President Biden who aren’t afraid to spend other people’s money to help those in need because of the pandemic (she forgot Trump who also handed out trillions.) If I recall correctly, the virus didn’t declare a lockdown on economic activity. That was the policy advocated by these same saints who now are looking out for the weary and downtrodden. But that doesn’t matter. Get that money out there to those who need it such as the mega corporations and zombie companies taking advantage of PPP loans.
Oh, you also get “free” shots, you know, the government version of free. The government, which doesn’t produce anything and has to get its money from us via debt issuance and tax confiscation, has money to burn on anything and everything you could desire.
But she really saved the best for last:
“We are not through this pandemic. I wished we were but I prayed a lot to God during this time and you know what - God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers - he made them come up with a vaccine. That is from God to us and we must say, thank you, God. Thank you. And I wear my 'vaccinated' necklace all the time to say I'm vaccinated. All of you, yes, I know you're vaccinated, you're the smart ones, but you know there's people out there who aren't listening to God and what God wants. You know who they are.”
“I need you to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say, we owe this to each other. We love each other. Jesus taught us to love one another and how do you show that love but to care about each other enough to say, please get the vaccine because I love you and I want you to live, I want our kids to be safe when they're in schools, I want to be safe when you go to a doctor's office or to a hospital and are treated by somebody, you don't want to get the virus from them. You're already sick or you wouldn't be there. We have to solve this, my friends. I need every one of you. I need you to let them know that this is how we can fight this pandemic, come back to normal and then start talking about the real issues that we have to - fighting systemic racial injustice which exists today and if there is a denier I will take you on every day because I've seen it, I know it exists and we're not going to have a blind eye to this ever again any longer under my watch. That is my commitment to you.”
Only the smart people have been vaccinated because they are listening to God and God wants vaccines. They are manna from heaven. Vaccinated people are now the Apostles of the religion of Vaccines and Kathy Hochul is their leader. Move over Jesus and Biden!
I really don’t know where to go with this except to say, “WOW!”
Not So Subtle
The majority of the messaging in mainstream media is not actually being directed at the unvaccinated. As Matt Taibbi points out in his latest article:
“Except, if that theoretical unvaccinated person could be convinced by anything CNN said or did, they’d have already gotten the shot, because the network runs ten million stories a day directly imploring people to get vaccinated or die. News flash: the instinct to armor-plate even unrelated news subjects with layer after layer of insistent vaccine dogma is not for the non-immunized, who mostly don’t watch outlets like CNN or read the New York Times. Outlets apply that neurotic messaging for their own target audiences, who’ve been trained to live in terror of un-contextualized content, which everyone knows leads to Trump, fascism, and death.”
There is however some not so subtle messaging that is intended for everyone. The commercial below has been airing before Chiefs games, and although it is supposedly a spot from the MoStopsCovid.com which is the state of Missouri’s propaganda site, I have yet to find this commercial on that site or anywhere else. This looks like a commercial produced for broader consumption, and certainly has a global, totalitarian flavor. Turn the volume all the way up so you can hear. https://1drv.ms/v/s!Atb_aFvyX5OZj1UfDpqDPXHPz6Kl?e=eMg1Qd
In case you missed the actual intent of the message, you are not free unless you get vaccinated. Your inalienable rights no longer exist. You only get to enjoy the freedoms granted to you by elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats if you just do as they say. For now, it’s just the COVID vaccine, but what happens when the next virus sweeps through, or the next crisis unfolds?
Talk about some dystopian shit!
Here are my last two questions of the day:
Who is actually guilty of spreading misinformation?
and,
When we engage in foreign wars are we truly fighting for freedom and justice when we don’t even protect and respect our own freedoms at home?