Two years in Wonderland
A timeline of Covid insanity
As 2021 (alternatively, “Twenty Twenty Won”) draws to a close, it seems a good time to revisit some of the key events that have occurred since we were first drawn down the rabbit hole into this Covid-obsessed world of emerging dystopia. I follow my summary with some concluding thoughts. If you’re the type who doesn’t feel comfortable walking twenty feet from the restaurant door to your table without donning a mask, this summary might not be for you. Then again, maybe it is.
The Preliminaries
January 2017. In a speech at Georgetown University, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci predicts a “surprise outbreak” of an infectious disease under the incoming Trump Administration. Fauci, the highest-paid employee of the federal government, has been NIAID director since 1984 and was a key player in designating the HIV virus as the cause of AIDS.
October 2019. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, host Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise in New York. The simulation involves a fictional coronavirus, originating in bats, passing to humans via pigs. Among the participants are a President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a Deputy Director of the CDC, a Vice President of Johnson & Johnson, and the Director-General of the Chinese version of the CDC. Among the recommendations: “media companies should commit to ensuring that […] false messages are suppressed[,] including through the use of technology.” A year before, the same group conducted a simulation called “Clade X”, which involved a respiratory virus engineered in a Swiss lab by a terrorist group, ultimately killing 150 million people.
October 2019. A week after Event 201, at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit, Tony Fauci and BARDA Director Rick Bright discuss the need for a “disruptive” event to quickly transition from the old “egg-growing” way of making vaccines to new mRNA and DNA-based technologies, without going through the usual phases of clinical trials, which, according to Fauci, can take a decade. Following up on Fauci’s description of an extended development and testing timeframe, Bright calls for an “entity of excitement” that’s disruptive and “not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes” in order to push forward the transition.
December 2019. China reports a pneumonia of an unknown cause in the city of Wuhan to the World Health Organization (WHO), the first 41 cases of the disease that would become known as Covid-19. Officials initially blame the outbreak on consumption of tainted meat from a “wet market” in the city. Wuhan is the only city in China that has a biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) research laboratory, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). BSL-4 represents the highest level of biosafety precautions, for work with agents that could be aerosolized and cause severe to fatal disease in humans. WIV has for years conducted research on bat coronavirus, some of it funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense through an organization called EcoHealth Alliance.
2020
January 2020. Pictures emerge from Wuhan of dead bodies lying in the streets, said to be victims of the recently reported novel coronavirus. China makes the genome sequence available for the virus that would become known as SARS-CoV-2 (the American CDC already has patents on the genomes of other coronaviruses, including the original SARS-CoV). The virus that comes to be known as SARS-CoV-2 is said to be the cause of the illness that in February will be dubbed “Covid-19” by the WHO.
Emergency staff in protective suits check the body of a man said to have collapsed and died in the street in Wuhan in January 2020. Source: The Guardian; Photograph: Héctor Retamal / AFP via Getty Images. January 2020. CDC confirms the first U.S. laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S. from samples taken on January 18 in Washington state.
January 2020. Indian scientists publish a pre-print of a paper that claims the existence of “uncanny” inserts in the spike protein portion of SARS-CoV-2 that appear to originate from the HIV virus, suggesting that the novel coronavirus may have been an engineered bioweapon using HIV. Under extreme criticism and pressure, the authors withdraw the paper on February 2. (See item #25 below regarding “false positive” HIV test results from participants in an Australian Covid vaccine trial). In an email dated January 31 and released in the Summer of 2021 as part of a FOIA request, Kristian Andersen of the Scripps Research Institute tells Fauci that some of SARS-CoV-2's features “(potentially) look engineered” and that he and his colleagues find its genome “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” Fauci then arranges a call with Andersen and others on February 1, apparently to get their story straight. Transcripts of the call are highly redacted, but Andersen falls back in line when quoted publicly later, saying he doesn’t believe the lab-based theory is plausible and calling for more scientific data in an article published in Nature Medicine.
February 2020. British zoologist Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, the organization that the NIH uses to funnel taxpayer money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research, writes a letter defending scientists and health professionals in China and condemning the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy theory. Dazak recruits 26 other “deeply concerned” scientists to sign the letter despite clear conflicts of interest and arranges for it to appear in The Lancet, with no conflicts declared. The letter is subsequently used by health authorities, including Fauci, to condemn the lab leak theory. Leaked emails will later reveal an effort to obfuscate the fact that the letter was coming primarily from scientists associated with EcoHealth Alliance, including Daszak, and to make it appear as “simply a letter from leading scientists.” Another brazen conflict of interest: when the WHO investigates the lab leak theory at Wuhan, Daszak leads the investigation team (investigating the lab whose gain-of-function coronavirus bat research he had funded with American money).
February 2020. Italy becomes a global coronavirus hotspot and institutes the first lockdown in a Western country over the virus.
March 2020. Neil Ferguson, a physicist at Imperial College London, publishes an epidemiology model that predicts over 2 million US deaths and 500,000 UK deaths from coronavirus unless governments adopted his preferred set of interventions to ward off the pandemic. The widely publicized Imperial College Model creates a firestorm and is used to silence skeptics and opponents of lockdowns and other measures, prompting the UK government to abandon its initial planned “light-touch” herd immunity strategy (a strategy Sweden will retain throughout, with similar disease trajectories to hard lockdown countries but without curbs on civil liberties or severe economic harm).
March 2020. WHO declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. President Trump declares a nationwide emergency. US states begin to shut down schools, restaurants, and bars, in response to the federal government’s “fifteen days to slow the spread” messaging. Within days, the first human trial of a vaccine to protect against Covid-19 begins in the US, for the Moderna mRNA vaccine. The federal government, including Fauci’s NIAID and Rick Bright’s BARDA, will spend about $2.5 billion to fund the development and testing of Moderna’s vaccine (the same government will shield them from liability if their vaccine causes harm).
March 2020. Human trials begin for Moderna’s Covid vaccine candidate, which is based on experimental mRNA technology in development for a decade but never before tested at scale in humans. Federal health officials begin promoting the idea that new vaccines, said to be a year away from reality, are the only way out of the pandemic, actively suppressing all claims that existing therapeutics are effective when repurposed for early treatment protocols. People who test positive are told to simply stay at home until they develop breathing problems, in which case remdesivir and ventilators are the only recommended options by the NIH. Remdesivir in doses given for Covid can create liver toxicity, especially in those with impaired liver function, and placing someone on a ventilator can in itself be a death sentence because the procedure is so invasive and often damaging to the lungs.
March 2020. CDC issues guidelines for coding disease and filling out death certificates that weigh heavily in favor of finding Covid-19 as a cause of death. The guidelines call for attributing deaths to Covid-19 even in cases where the death is only presumed to have been caused by the disease. In some cases, that's even in the absence of Covid testing having been performed at all. It’s also the case when there may have been a positive test but there’s also uncertainty as to actual cause of death due to comorbidities (a big problem due to the vast majority of Covid deaths being in those who are old and who were already sick). CDC will later issue a report (recently updated) revealing that only about 6% of Covid death certificates list Covid as the only cause. The other 94% have on average four co-morbidities. According to Britain’s Office of National Statistics, the average age of death due to Covid is in the 80s, which is above average life expectancy. The vast majority of people of all age groups who contract Covid will not become seriously ill or die. Children will account for fewer than 0.1% of all Covid deaths in the US, and as tragic as that is, most of them will likely have already been profoundly ill given how few children are at risk. So, unlike for the 600,000 plus people who die from heart disease in the US each year and the roughly same number who die from cancer, government statistics on Covid death numbers can’t be considered reliable.
March 2020. A paper prepared for the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), the primary scientific advisory group to the British Government for Covid response, sets the stage for a government propaganda campaign that will involve intentionally misleading the public about the lethality of the virus for all but the oldest and sickest members of the public. Titled, “Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures,” the paper will be kept secret and not published until months later. Under the heading “Persuasion”, it states: “A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured by the low death rate in their demographic group.” It then adds that “[t]he perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging.” The paper also discusses strategies for incentivizing desired behavior and generating social disapproval for “anti-social” behavior. Public officials and the media duly respond, intentionally obscuring the stark differences in risk between age groups and emotionally manipulating people with the relatively few examples they can find of younger, healthier people who become seriously ill or die.
March 2020. Fauci tells Dr. Jon LaPook on CBS’s 60 Minutes “Right now, in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.” He elaborated: “When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and [dismissively] it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.” When LaPook asks if you can get some “schmuts” (meaning dirt; filth) “sort of staying inside there [the mask]” as one of the unintended negative consequences, he says “of course”. He then says masks should be reserved for health care providers and people who are ill.
March 2020. Medicare issues reimbursement rules that ensure hospitals get higher reimbursements for coding for Covid-19. This is justifiable based on the additional cost of handling acute Covid patients, but it adds an additional incentive for medical facilities losing money on procedures that were cut back due to the pandemic to code for Covid.
April 2020. That state of New York becomes a global hotspot for Covid-19 infections and deaths, peaking at over 1300 average new deaths per day (600 per day in New York City alone) over a seven-day period in mid-April. The Northeast corridor in the March-April timeframe will become the only place and time in the country that hospitals will actually come close to being overwhelmed, but it will set the stage for similar fears across the country. Overly aggressive use of ventilators in New York will exacerbate the problem. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issues a directive for New York nursing homes to accept elderly Covid patients to make way for new cases expected to fill the hospitals at the peak of the initial wave. That directive will later be found to have increased the death toll in New York. During this same period, average daily deaths remain much lower in Florida, whose governor had been criticized for resisting an imposed lockdown until April 1, weeks later than New York and other states. Florida will prohibit nursing homes from accepting Covid-positive patients until they’ve had two consecutive negative tests in 24 hours.
April 2020. During peak daily deaths from its first wave of Covid-19, many in the UK begin to question just how overwhelmed the National Health Service really is when videos such as this cringeworthy clip emerge on social media. Some begin to question whether a propaganda campaign may be in progress to whip up fear and exaggerate the danger posed by the virus.
April 2020. CDC reverses previous guidance and recommends that all people wear masks when outside of the home, the first time CDC has recommended mask-wearing on a community-wide basis to prevent the spread of a respiratory illness. Studies of water-droplet dispersal and the postulated effect on viral transmission from those studies is the claimed basis for the reversal. This is despite decades of studies going back to World War II that showed either no effect or little-to-no statistically significant effect of mask-wearing on community spread of respiratory illnesses. Subsequent comparisons of states with and without widespread mask mandates and mask-wearing will show no association between the introduction of mandates and reduction in Covid-19, and many states and countries will see their highest case rates of the pandemic in seasonal disease waves that occur after the introduction of mask mandates. The same can be said for comparisons of states with and without lockdowns.
Comparison of 7-day-average daily deaths per one million population in Sweden and the United Kingdom from initiation of the pandemic up to July 2021. Sweden never introduced mask mandates and even dropped its recommendations to wear them on public transport in July 2021. Likewise, there was never any widespread voluntary mask-wearing in the country. Source: Swiss Policy Research. Data: WHO. 
Comparison of daily deaths per one million population of US states with and without mask mandates from January to May 2021. Source: Swiss Policy Research; New York Times. April 2020. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the US peaks at 14.8 percent, higher than the Great Recession peak in 2009.
June 2020. China approves a viral vector Covid vaccine (a type similar to Russia’s Sputnik, Britain’s AstraZeneca, and Jannsen’s Covid vaccines that are later approved) for limited use in the military, as well as two inactivated virus vaccines (the same technology used in traditional injected flu vaccines) for emergency use in high-risk occupations.
July 2020. Fauci admits on a podcast called This Week in Virology (relevant portion starts at 4:20 below) that a positive Covid PCR test with a cycle threshold (the number of times DNA from a swab is amplified exponentially by the test process to detect the virus) of 35 cycles or more is useless and misleading. “…If you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more…the chances of it [the virus] being replication-competent are miniscule…you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…it’s just dead nucleotides, period.” This shows Fauci understands the issue of too-sensitive PCR tests (many of them with cycle cutoffs of 40 or more) picking up viral remnants of a previous infection remaining suspended in the patient’s mucus linings and then counting it as a positive, but apparently he doesn’t feel strongly enough about it to highlight the issue and get it resolved. I explained the PCR test process and the problem of known, but largely unacknowledged, false positives here.
August 2020. The New York Times publishes an investigative piece entitled “Your Coronavirus Test is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be” highlighting the same false-positive PCR test issue that Fauci had casually mentioned the prior month on a podcast (see item #18 above). “In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.” They add, “Most tests set the [cycle] limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus. Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left.” (See item #26 below).
August 2020. Dallas-based cardiologist and epidemiologist Peter McCullough and a team of colleagues publish “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection” in The American Journal of Medicine, the first widely accepted protocol for multidrug treatment of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 (downloaded millions of times). McCullough, one of the most-published and highly cited physicians in the world on cardiac-renal issues prior to the pandemic, describes Covid-19 as primarily an inflammatory clotting disease, with respiratory complications as a downstream effect. The early treatment protocols that he and other frontline physicians use involve combinations (“cocktails”) of pre-existing drugs to reduce inflammation, prevent clotting, and inhibit viral replication. Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug, is sometimes, but not always, used off-label as the inhibitory agent for viral replication. McCullough and colleagues will testify before Congress and several state legislatures about their successes, but the pharmaceutical-industry-aligned federal health agencies ignore him. Baylor University Medical Center, where he was vice chief of internal medicine, severs ties with him. In December 2021, McCullough will assert that 85% of Covid deaths in the US could have been prevented with early treatment using combinations of repurposed, existing drugs.
August 2020. Russia approves its Sputnik V Covid vaccine for emergency use. Sputnik V is a viral vector vaccine that contains the DNA for creating the full-length Covid spike protein spliced onto a human adenovirus as the delivery mechanism into the cells. In this sense, it is similar to the later British AstraZeneca and American Jannsen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccines.
October 2020. A group of two professors of medicine and an epidemiologist from Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford universities issue the Great Barrington Declaration, advocating an alternative approach to pandemic management of isolating and protecting the most vulnerable while allowing others to resume their normal lives. The declaration, later co-signed by thousands of other health experts, claims that increased infection of those at lower risk will lead to a build-up of immunity in the population that would eventually also protect those at higher risk. Emails released in December 2021 will reveal that Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins attempted to coordinate a “devastating takedown” (Collins’ words) of the declaration and the experts who sponsored it, referring to them as “three fringe epidemiologists”, based in part on their association with the libertarian think tank American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).
December 2020. The UK becomes the first Western country to distribute a Covid vaccine for emergency use after they authorize the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine on December 2. US emergency authorization of Pfizer comes on December 11, and Moderna on December 18. The first people in the United States begin receiving Covid vaccinations on December 14. The UK approves the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as its second coronavirus vaccine on December 30.
December 2020. The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna shots introduced in December use novel mRNA vaccine technology, never before authorized for use in humans. The viral messenger RNA used for encoding the Covid spike protein is enveloped in a lipid nanoparticle for injection and eventual delivery into the cytoplasm of the cells. Once there, the mRNA hijacks the normal protein-manufacturing processes of the ribosomes to synthesize the spike proteins that present on the surface of the cells, eliciting the immune response. Viral vector vaccines like those of AstraZeneca and Jannsen are also novel and work similarly to the mRNA ones, except they use DNA spliced onto an adenovirus (the type that causes a form of the common cold) for delivery of the spike-encoding DNA into the nucleus of the cells. The nucleus creates the mRNA that then instructs the ribosomes to create the spike proteins in the same way as in the mRNA vaccines. The mRNA and DNA in these vaccines is thought to break down quickly, but the spike proteins have been shown to travel in the bloodstream and collect in other tissues (including the liver, spleen, adrenal glands, and ovaries) for at least several days post injection (see Japanese bio-distribution study required for Pfizer approval in Japan, very roughly translated into English with poor formatting). Some think those proteins may themselves be pathogenic and account for the various blood/cardiac-related complications (clotting, myocarditis/pericarditis, brain bleeds, heart attacks) reported in some recently vaccinated. Vaccine defenders in the scientific community have explanations for why they think not, but if they’re being honest, they don’t really know and there are reasons for concern. That’s particularly true if endlessly recurring Covid vaccine boosters become a reality, providing repeated doses of spike protein to travel through the bloodstream and collect in tissues. There is simply no long-term data for these novel vaccine technologies only recently tested at scale in humans and then injected billions of times.
December 2020. A promising Australian candidate for a coronavirus vaccine is abandoned after some vaccine trial participants generate HIV antibodies and return allegedly false HIV positive test results (see item #3 above regarding Indian researchers claiming HIV inserts into SARS-CoV-2 as an engineered virus).
December 2020. The State of Florida begins requiring labs to report PCR cycle thresholds on all Covid positive tests reported to the state. This is intended to address the concerns of known false positives whereby the tests can report a positive based on DNA amplification of leftover viral fragments from a previous infection, in some cases even months after recovery.
2021
January 2021. Kansas’s state health lab quietly reduces the cycle threshold of its Covid-19 PCR test from 42 to 35 cycles, likely reducing the number of false positives compared to previous months.
January 2021. WHO issues an updated Information Notice for Users instructing lab professionals and users of PCR testing technology to “read and follow the [PCR test manufacturer instructions for use] carefully to determine if manual adjustment of the PCR positivity threshold is recommended by the manufacturer.” The notice also requires users to report the cycle threshold values to requesting health care providers. As if by magic, the Covid case trend described in item #3 below immediately follows.
January 2021. At a time when the vast majority Americans have yet to receive a single dose of coronavirus vaccine (fewer than 4% of Arkansans, for example), Covid-19 case rates sharply peak in mid-January and begin a months-long steep and sustained collapse in multiple states, just in time to credit the vaccines and incoming President Biden for the improving situation (this won’t stop them from blaming later waves on Trump and the unvaccinated).
See far left for the sharp peak and then rapid decline of Covid cases in Arkansas beginning around January 10, 2021, lasting until the summer. At the time of the peak, fewer than four percent of Arkansans had received their first Covid vaccine dose and fewer than one percent had received two. Source: 91-divoc.com; Data: Johns Hopkins University CSSE / CCI. February 2021. Viral vector Covid vaccine by Jannsen (a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary) is granted emergency use authorization on February 26, the third shot available in the US and the first to use one shot as the initial protocol.
March 2021. Texas becomes the first state to lift its mask mandates and capacity restraints for all businesses. Other states, including Arkansas, follow soon after. Alarmists predict doom; Biden declares it “neanderthal thinking”. Instead, cases continue to collapse and then bottom out for several months, until the next wave begins in July.
April 2021. On 13 April 2021, the CDC and the FDA issue a joint statement recommending that use of the Janssen vaccine be suspended, due to reports of six cases of blood clots following vaccination. The “pause”, as it comes to be known, is lifted only ten days later, on April 23.
May 2021. A surge in Covid cases in India that began in March sharply peaks in early May until it suddenly (and mysteriously, for media outlets like NPR) collapses. It will return almost to baseline by July despite a vaccination rate still well below 10%. The wave of infections is driven 90% by the delta variant that first emerged in India in October 2020. The collapse in cases begins after India’s Ministry of Health & Family Welfare issues revised guidelines on April 28 recommending the use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. A hilarious effort by Politifact to debunk the claimed ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine connection acknowledges the timing of the change in guidelines (they had to) but rules the connection “mostly false” because there was no proof the drugs caused the decline and because the US FDA and the WHO recommend against using them to prevent or treat Covid.
Cases (and deaths) in India skyrocketed and then immediately plummeted in the summer of 2021, despite a vaccination rate of less than ten percent. The Indian government changed recommendations to include ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine in late April and began expanding supply. Source: 91-divoc.com; Data: Johns Hopkins University CSSE / CCI. May 2021. At almost the same time as the peak in Indian cases, the WHO declares delta a variant of concern on May 11. The US CDC will follow in June. By late July, it will be blamed for driving another US surge due to its being more aggressive than the original Wuhan strain.
July 2021. President Biden warns of the dangers of the delta variant as his previous vaccination target of 70% by July 4 is missed. “We need to aim for higher than 70% to get us to herd immunity,” he claims, despite that fact that some of the most vaccinated countries in the world, such as the UK and Singapore, will soon experience their largest Covid waves yet and an increase in deaths while some of the least vaccinated, including many eastern European countries, are experiencing very low infections.
July 2021. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky declares that Covid-19 is becoming “a pandemic of the unvaccinated”. “We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk,” Walensky says. Meantime, “communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well.”
July 2021. Israel’s Ministry of Health approves booster shots for Israelis who’ve been vaccinated at least five months prior.
August 2021. On August 3, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that a vaccine mandate for entry into certain venues, known as Key to NYC Pass, would take effect August 16, with enforcement beginning September 13. Anyone 12 and older must present proof that they have received at least one vaccine dose (using either a physical record, the state Excelsior Pass app, or the city's NYC Covid Safe app) in order to enter indoor gyms, bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues. Other large cities begin to follow New York’s lead in imposing vaccine passes for entry into various private venues.
August 2021. Melbourne, Australia enters its sixth lockdown at a time when fewer than 1,000 of Australia’s 26 million people have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Other Australian cities are also in lockdown and using the Australian military to enforce it. Covid policies in Australia and New Zealand have been some of the strictest in the Western world, with far more paternalistic and threatening language from officials than anywhere else. It’s as if the region has been designated the policy laboratory for the harshest measures.
August 2021. A retrospective observational study out of Israel involving tens of thousands of people, the largest to compare natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity, concludes that previously infected unvaccinated people have six to 13 times greater protection from infection from the delta variant than never-infected vaccinated people. Further, according to Science magazine, “the risk of developing symptomatic Covid-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher.” The protection afforded by natural immunity was longer-lasting as well. The study found additional benefit from vaccination after natural infection.
August 2021. FDA announces the first approval of a Covid-19 vaccine, the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine, which will now be marketed as Comirnaty, for the prevention of Covid. The vaccine had previously been distributed solely under an emergency use authorization, which continues for all three authorized vaccines in the US following Comirnaty approval. Formal FDA approval paves the way for officials to ramp up the pressure campaign against those who remain unvaccinated against Covid-19.
September 2021. Two top FDA officials, the director and deputy director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review, resign over frustrations with the Biden Administration’s plans to push forward with booster shot recommendations without their approval.
September 2021. Biden announces two federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates affecting at least 100 million Americans, to go into full effect in January 2022. The broadest is an OSHA mandate applying to all companies with 100 or more employees, which includes a testing exception. There’s also a federal contractor mandate, with no testing exception. Both mandates will eventually be temporarily stayed by federal judges, but the Sixth Circuit will overturn the stay of the OSHA mandate prior to the litigation proceeding.
October 2021. A study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine involving 4.7 million vaccinated Israeli adults showing that immunity against the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 waned in all age groups a few months after receiving the second dose of vaccine, resulting in increases in both infections and hospitalizations for those who had been vaccinated earlier.
November 2021. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has his latest confrontation with Fauci in a Congressional hearing in which he accuses the NIAID director of lying about dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, and of the NIH changing its definition of “gain-of-function” on its website in order to exonerate Fauci of allegations of previous lies to Congress about such funding. Paul calls on Fauci to resign. Fauci calls it an “egregious misrepresentation”. An NIH official had admitted in October that the NIH funded gain-of-function research at Wuhan via EcoHealth Alliance, and mainstream commentators have recently been taking seriously the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab. Months prior, social media companies had been censoring such allegations as misinformation.
November 2021. Pfizer says it expects a total of $36 billion in revenue from its money-maker Covid vaccine for 2021, and at least $29 billion in 2022 based on current orders from governments around the world. The company also revealed the federal government has purchased a total of 600 million doses across all age ranges under its supply agreement, including enough pediatric doses to vaccinate every child in America.
November 2021. The omicron Covid-19 variant emerges in South Africa, said to be highly mutated and more infectious than delta. WHO declares it a new variant of concern. Most of its mutations are in the spike protein area of the virus, the very area Covid vaccines target by inducing people's cells to create spike-mimicking proteins. South Africa, which had been hit hard by previous waves of infections, reports that omicron generally produces milder symptoms without a high degree of hospitalizations (this despite a low vaccination rate in South Africa). Nevertheless, Western countries greet the news with as much or more alarm as they had the rise of delta. European countries introduce new lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
December 2021. Videos appear of a Swedish company’s “chief disruption officer” demonstrating its human microchip implant technology that can be used to store vaccine passports, among other things, which are then accessed via a smartphone app. Microchipping via vaccination was a conspiracy theory that arose early on and was widely ridiculed. Apparently, the company, called Epicenter, has been microchipping employees since 2015. And it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they’ve had a collaboration with Microsoft on other ventures since 2015.
December 2021. British media begin pushing the idea that the concerning rise in cardiac events in the UK in 2021 is due to post-pandemic stress disorder rather than the most obvious potential cause — Covid vaccines.
December 2021. Preprint of a trial involving a large Danish cohort shows negative efficacy of both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines against the omicron variant within just 90 days of vaccination. The surprising conclusion from that: the need for a “massive rollout of vaccinations and booster vaccinations.”
December 2021. Reviewing 2021 in his blog, Microsoft founder Bill Gates predicts the end of the “acute phase” of the pandemic in 2022. Like any psychopath worth his salt, however, he tortures his victims by whip-sawing them at breakneck speed between hope and despair. Two weeks later, he tweets that, because of omicron, we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic. Then a few tweets later he bats his sycophants around again like a ball of yarn, ending on an upbeat note: “If there’s good news here, it’s that omicron moves so quickly that once it becomes dominant in a country, the wave there should last less than 3 months. Those few months could be bad, but I still believe if we take the right steps, the pandemic can be over in 2022.”
December 2021. The CDC releases new data on December 10, one of the last releases of the year, showing that a total of 965,843 reports of adverse events following Covid vaccination have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) since December 14, 2020. VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the US. The data include a total of 20,244 reports of deaths. Excluding “foreign reports” to VAERS, which vaccine manufacturers are required to report to the CDC in certain instances, 691,884 adverse events, including 9,295 deaths and 59,767 serious injuries, were reported for the US. This is out of 480 million Covid vaccine doses administered in the US over the same period. Of the 9,295 US deaths reported, 21% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 26% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, and 61% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated. It’s believed that historically fewer than one percent of vaccine adverse events are reported to VAERS due in part to the highly politicized environment surrounding vaccines and medical professionals’ reluctance to attribute adverse events to vaccines. While it’s true that reports to VAERS don’t prove that a reported injury was caused by a vaccine, and it’s possible that fraudulent entries make it through, the reporting process is onerous and time-consuming, requires confirmatory phone calls, and involves repeated warnings that filing a false report is a felony.
Concluding Thoughts
Each life lost during this pandemic is a tragedy for that person’s friends and family, whether they died from Covid, with Covid, or from any of the other conditions that collectively kill millions of people each year. I don’t wish to minimize that or make light of it.
But it’s clear to me that Covid’s danger has been greatly exaggerated for all but the sickest and oldest members of society. Covid death figures cannot be counted on to be accurate, even if emotionally manipulative propaganda campaigns by media outlets have treated those figures as unquestionable fact. This has greatly increased the amount of control the public have been willing to permit all levels of government to exert over their lives. It’s also clear that effective early-intervention treatments for the disease have been suppressed by America’s regulatory agencies in order to focus solely on new, expensive vaccines and drugs that earn their manufacturers tens of billions of dollars. The degree to which the public health agencies have become captured by the industries they purportedly regulate has been laid bare for all who are willing to see.
Like the 9/11 attacks, the Covid pandemic is one of those deep events that has irrevocably changed history, centralizing power and control in all levels of government and using media manipulation to desensitize the public to such centralization. Things that many would have believed impossible just two short years ago have become, and are becoming, reality. The effort is global. And it will continue. So, re-think your ideas of the possible in the coming year, for better or for worse.
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Richie Graham is based in Little Rock Arkansas USA and writes from a free-market libertarian, anti-interventionist perspective.