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WiFi, 3D, 5G & AI: “Minority Report” In The Making

I post articles like this one due to the importance of understanding and appreciating the interconnectedness of things. Technology seems to always be rolled out with good intentions, but then for a myriad of reasons goes sideways.

For anyone paying attention, the players in this global cabal are all interrelated and are working in lockstep, which has rightly caused a crisis of trust.  While the unelected fully believe they need to dictate our every move due to our stupidity and for the ‘greater good,’ they’ve been attempting to rebuild trust as they attempt to ‘build back better.’ But the public is finally waking up to the fact nothing is back and nothing is better, but their freedoms are disappearing one by one under the guise of ‘pandemics,’ ‘public health,’ ‘climate change,’ and ‘equity.’

Many are unaware of the seemingly unrelated pieces of a puzzle that all connect for a global endgame which is all bigbig business.

Hopefully the following intel will help you see clearly and help you make wise choices.

https://stephenjdelaney.substack.com/p/its-watching-us?

It’s Watching Us!

Written on 03/07/2023 – (recovered and reposted to Substack)

I want to take you, the reader, through some information that will not only terrify you, but if you are capable of realising the potential uses of the technology in question, you will almost certainly become active in the resistance. This technology that I am about to show you and elaborate on, is more than likely already in use against us right now as we speak. The likelihood that 5g towers are functioning as a grid based, real-time imaging system, and recording it for playback purposes, is at the point of precarious certainty. In other words, we are waiting for them to admit it.

First I will show you the technology. Wireless, radio wave based transmissions were first used in 1904 to create what we now know as radar. This technology integrated a display known as an Oscilloscope that displayed 2d representations of the information obtained through pulsed signals sent out from an emitter. Roll on to todays surveillance state models that we are seeing pop up globally, and you can be damn sure they have a keen interest in seeing where you as a citizen are, at all times. To establish the basic acceptance of the existence of this technology I must first provide you some video content for your own perusal before you continue with this article. You must first understand the nature of this technology before I bring you full circle with its implications.  (See link for article and videos)

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SUMMARY & Added Tidbits:

  • The author states he personally worked on standard WiFi routers remotely and had to image the rooms they were in for assistance with ruling out wifi signal issues within the home.
  • I personally know someone who called the Cable company when he had trouble with his TV.  He was told to stand next to the TV and talk into it as he and the operator could talk to each other that way.
  • The data gathered can identify a person by their heartbeat, bone structure and breathing patterns without any wearable or implantable tech, which can all be enhanced by injectables.
  • Cell phones can generate the same emissions and track in the same way.
  • 5G towers can create a grid of high frequency radio waves that can generate a sophisticated 3d image, in real-time, anywhere where the signal has the range to do so.
  • This data is accessible to governments who can then simply develop a GUI application to interface with it and create a living map of the world over time (think time machine) which will allow them to edit (speed up, slow down, rewind, etc) history for whatever purpose they desire.  
  • Dense Human Pose Estimation can take existing images of a person’s form, map it to a 3D surface of the human body in real time, and if combined with “WiDar” would result in a hyper realistic 3D living stream of our world.
  • A group of compounds known as contrast dyes (Trometamol) are in the COVID shots which are typically used in MRI scans and other imaging technologies.  Airport scanners have been using this tech since the 70 & 80’s and it is highly likely the “vaxxed” could have their vaccine status checked this way.
  • Utilizing 3D real time imaging that can be edited (sped up, rewound, cut out, etc) AI can be incorporated to identify suspects before they have committed a crime in a real, live Minority Report. Whoever edits can create whatever history they want.
  • The deployment of spider silk proteins used in nanotech and biotech applications  has been going on for over 20 years and are self assembling polymers also used for transdermal vaccine deliverybiosensing applications, brain computer interfacecreation of synthetic neurons and  synthetic biology.
  • America’s largest bank, J.P. Morgan is preparing to launch biometric payments next year and is currently carrying out pilot projects. PopID verifies a person’s ID via facial recognition, fingerprints, and palms, all under the guise of convenience. Your face replaces keys, fobs, key cards, etc. despite the known fact facial recognition systems  are susceptible to bias. Despite claiming to be bias-free, an algorithm used by U.K. police as recently as two years ago had a false positive rate of 98%.
  • Recently a JP Morgan CEO stated that private property may need to be seized by the federal government for corporations to advance ‘climate’ initiatives.
  • Morgellons has been described as biosensing tech that detects resonant DNA frequency and allows it to be accessed via microwave frequency.
  • This tech is in the COVID shots, food, water supply and air.
  • The spider filaments appear to contain Quantum Dot like structures (also found in the COVID jab).
  • Despite security, environmental, and health risks associated with Wifi & 5G, the UN, which has been orchestrating the open boarders in the US, has openly  announced plans to clear the lands of people and move them into 15 minute Smart Cities.  Enter directed energy weapons.
  • A map from the UN’s Agenda 21 shows designated areas that are ‘off limits’ to people which just happen to line up with the 2008 California fires. Nine years ago planning was announced for Smart Cities to be built on Maui, but the most coveted land was owned by natives whose families have lived there for generations. Then August, 2023 Maui was devastated by highly suspicious fires.  In April 2023, a conference was held in Viña del Mar Chile on how to prepare for Smart Cities. A year later Viña del Mar was also devastated by fires, blamed on ‘climate’ change, but local officials claim arson. Then in 2022, Amarillo, Texas was listed as #1 area ‘under the radar’ for the Texas housing market under the UN’s Vision 2045 Summit.  In Feb., 2024 the worst wildfire in Texas’ history broke out in the same area.
  • Vision 2045 is the latest iteration of the UN’s plan to seize control of 90% of the land and limit people to 15 minute cities.
  • The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established the 5G Fund for Rural America. The fund will hand over billions of dollars worth of taxpayer money to the world’s largest telecom providers. In exchange, the telecom giants will build 5G infrastructure in rural regions of the U.S. — including the infrastructure needed for 5G or wireless farming, also known as “precision agriculture.” Critics say not only is this a marriage between agribusiness and spy technology, but that 5G food or Frankenstein farming is just one more toxic scam within the egregious global rollout of 5G and to monitor, control, and irradiate all that lives and breathes.

All Things Pfizer: DOJ Wants Whistleblower Lawsuit Tossed, Whistleblower Documentary & “Project Vax”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doj-motion-to-dismiss-pfizer-fraud-whistleblower-lawsuit/?

DOJ Asks Court to Toss Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleging Pfizer Defrauded U.S. Government

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked to intervene in a lawsuit alleging Pfizer committed fraud during clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine. The DOJ also asked the court to dismiss whistleblower Brook Jackson’s lawsuit against Pfizer.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked to intervene in a lawsuit alleging Pfizer committed fraud during clinical trials for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

The DOJ simultaneously asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed by whistleblower Brook Jackson, against Pfizer.

“The United States should not be required to expend resources on a case that is inconsistent with its public health policy,” the DOJ said in its motion to dismiss.

Jackson told The Defender the DOJ’s motion was “expected” and “will clarify the standards for good cause being applied” regarding the U.S. government’s justification for “allowing Pfizer to commit fraud on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration” (FDA).

“This fraud has undoubtedly cost American taxpayers billions of dollars and has led to an untold number of injuries from the COVID-19 countermeasure, including permanent disability and death among my fellow citizens,” Jackson said.

Jackson is a former employee of the Ventavia Research Group, an independent lab that conducted some of the clinical trials for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

In January 2021, she sued Pfizer, Ventavia and ICON plc, another Pfizer contractor, alleging the companies committed numerous violations of the False Claims Act during the trials.

In September 2022, Jackson filed an amended complaint, which was dismissed in April 2023. She subsequently filed a second amended complaint in October 2023, prompting the DOJ to claim it “has good cause to intervene and is entitled to dismissal” of the case.

Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for April 17 before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Beaumont Division.

Sasha Latypova, a former pharmaceutical industry executive with 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development, told The Defender, “The case alleges that Pfizer committed fraud in order to get the contract for COVID-19 vaccines from the U.S. government while knowingly delivering a defective product.”

“The fraud that Jackson describes … has not been disputed by Pfizer,” Latypova said.

Robert Barnes, one of the lawyers representing Jackson, spoke at a March 8 presentation of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, where he said, “Any and every form of fraud they could commit, they did,” referring to Pfizer.

“[Jackson] discovered it, uncovered it and went through the appropriate internal review protocols and assumed that people would correct the defects,” Barnes said. “And instead of that occurring, she was summarily fired.”

As for what discovery may reveal, Latypova said she is “quite certain” that “it would confirm all allegations of fraud that have been observed by Brook — violations of the clinical trial protocol, unblinding, lack of proper informed consent, manipulation of data, hiding adverse events from the vaccines, and more.” (See link for article)

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Project Whistleblower Documentary Vol. 1 & 2

https://rumble.com/v4hmwr6-project-whistleblower-volumes-1-and-2-combine  Video Here  (Approx. 2 Hours, 30 Min)

Uncover the hidden truth behind Pfizer vaccines with Project Whistleblower, a groundbreaking documentary created and narrated by former Pfizer employee and whistleblower Justin Leslie. This gripping exposé reveals the shocking reality behind the Pfizer vaccines and tells the story of one man’s courage to expose the truth. He also shares his encounters with James O’Keefe, who admitted to attending the infamous Bohemian Grove, further fueling suspicions of a larger conspiracy.

Join Justin on his journey as he risked everything to speak out against the crimes against humanity and shed light on the vaccine injuries and deaths we are now seeing. This is not about politics; it’s about right versus wrong and the future of mankind.

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https://www.aussie17.com/p/pfizer-event-staffer-admits-to-avoiding

Pfizer’s Project Vax & DNA Contamination Making Waves in Scientific Community

By Aussie17, Exposing Big Pharma from the inside

March 14, 2024

Excerpts:

The moment Pfizer’s “Project Vax” came into my view, it was like flipping a switch, dragging me back to my Pharma days. Back then, I learned the cardinal rule that you just don’t see Pharma companies hawking their products directly to the unsuspecting public. That’s a big no-no. The official playbook says you market to the medical professionals, not the patients — except, of course, in the US and New Zealand, where direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements are part of the landscape.

But here’s Pfizer, strutting across the stage with “Project Vax,” acting like they’ve got the run of the place. And why wouldn’t they? Their ties with regulators and political bigwigs seem to give them a sense of invincibility, a belief that they can bend the rules without consequence.

But wait, the plot thickens when Pfizer’s very own carnival barkers, I mean, event reps, with a straight face, assure us that their glittering “Project Vax” extravaganza isn’t about vaccinations at all. How utterly preposterous!

The DNA Contamination news making waves with scientists worldwide!

Dr. Hiroshi Arakawa from the Institute of Molecular Biology recently (Mar 11, 2024) blogged about the DNA contamination issue in Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy and it is making waves within the scientific community.

Here is a snippet of his blog (translated from Japanese). He calls the situation a “time bomb.”

“This time, what was confirmed in the placenta was not only the spike protein, but also the vaccine mRNA itself, and this fact indicates that the transfer of mRNA preparations inoculated to pregnant women into the placenta is a fatal flaw common to all LNP/mRNA preparations. It shows me something again. If LNP-wrapped mRNA can reach the intrauterine environment, the same can be said of LNP-wrapped contaminant DNA. Contaminant DNA may also be transfected into the fetus, which has a small number of cells. The toxicity of the coronavirus vaccine in the uterine environment predicts the induction of premature birth and miscarriage, as well as the impact on congenital physical and intellectual disabilities.

Or, even if you appear to be a healthy newborn, you may be carrying a time bomb that you don’t know when it will go off in the future. It is believed that the coronavirus vaccine is also largely involved in the current decline in Japan’s birth rate. As long as mRNA vaccination continues, there are concerns that the declining birthrate and population decline will further accelerate.”  ~ Dr Hiroshi Arakawa, 11 March 2024 [SOURCE]

(See link for article)

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Long-COVID Symptoms Mirror Those in Other Viral Illnesses, Study Shows

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/15/long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold

Time to stop using term ‘long Covid’ as symptoms are no worse than those after flu, study finds

Researchers compared the symptoms and impairment of Covid and influenza patients a year after they tested positive

Long Covid may be no different from other post-viral syndromes such as those experienced after flu, according to new research from Queensland Health.

The lead author of the study, the state’s chief health officer Dr John Gerrard, said it was “time to stop using terms like ‘long Covid’” because they imply there is something unique about the longer-term symptoms associated with the virus, and in some cases create hypervigilance.

There are different definitions of long Covid but the World Health Organization defines post-Covid or long Covid as occurring in people still experiencing symptoms three months after their initial Covid-19 infection, when those symptoms can’t be explained by an alternative diagnosis. (See link for article)

Important quote:

Gerrard said long Covid may have appeared to be a distinct and severe illness because of the high number of people infected with Covid-19 within a short period of time, rather than the severity of long Covid symptoms.

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**Comment**

The author states that the symptoms patients experience are real but that the incidence of these symptoms is no greater in COVID than it is with other respiratory viruses and that using the term ‘Long COVID’ is misleading and harmful.

He also admitted that the findings are associations and do not represent prevalence as well as the fact there was no laboratory pathophysiological assessment making it impossible to detect if this is indistinguishable from flu-related or any other post-viral syndrome.  But, it’s important to mention here that the PCR test used is utterly useless and can’t detect if a person has COVID or just the flu, and it can’t identify variants.

But to keep the COVID narrative alive and well he states that because 90% of people in Queensland are ‘vaccinated’ with the gene therapy when Omicron emerged, the lower severity of COVID could be due to ‘vaccination’ and the variant.

Research and reality; however, shows just the opposite.

There is actually increased risk of new variant infections which can be severe in the ‘vaccinated’ only, which has been recorded many, many times.

Can Lyme Disease Cause Speech Issues?

https://danielcameronmd.com/can-lyme-disease-cause-speech-issues/

CAN LYME DISEASE CAUSE SPEECH ISSUES?

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“Lyme can affect the nerves that are responsible for controlling the muscles in the vocal cords,” says Amesh A. Adalja, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “As a result, someone could technically lose their voice if they had Lyme disease.”

“Lyme disease has been associated with a wide variety of persistent neuropsychological and cognitive symptoms, including: impaired attention, focus, concentration, judgment, and impulse control,” in addition to impaired memory and speech functions, according to an article published by Amen Clinics.¹

Recent studies of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) have found “consistent deficits in memory and processing speed,” according to the authors of a new study “Language Fluency Deficits in Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome.”² But are language fluency deficits due to poor performance in these other neurocognitive areas?

The study by Gorlyn et al. evaluated 38 individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD), 59 healthy volunteers, and 31 individuals with Post-treatment Lyme disease Syndrome (PTLDS).

The major depressive disorder group “had a cumulative time since first episode of depression of 13.5 ± 10.9 years, with an average 3.8 ± 3.5 episodes of depression,” wrote Gorlyn et al.

The Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome group “had a duration of illness of 7.7 ± 5.6 years of illness and had gone 13.0 ± 18.5 (median = 7.0) months before being formally diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease.”

Additionally, the PTLDS group “received an average of 2.3 ± 1.7 months of prior intravenous antibiotic treatment and 7.4 ± 9.8 (median = 3) months of prior oral antibiotic treatment.”

The study found that both the PTLDS and MDD groups had deficits in basic verbal abilities, memory, and processing speed.

“…language fluency deficits were evident in PTLDS patients even after controlling for the significant effects of verbal ability, slowed processing speed, and memory difficulties on fluency performance.”

The authors concluded, “Language fluency appears to be an independent area of neurocognitive deficit within the constellation of PTLDS symptoms.”

These deficits in language fluency could not be a function of depressed mood, basic verbal abilities, or other cognitive problems, the authors point out.

“These findings suggest that language problems are a distinct area of cognitive deficit in PTLDS, and not a function of depressed mood, basic verbal abilities, or other cognitive problems frequently observed in PTLDS.”

The findings support those from other studies. “A clearer picture of these patients’ neurocognitive difficulties has emerged incorporating mild slowing, disruptions of learning and information retrieval, and dysfunction in everyday language skills,” wrote the authors.

The study was not designed to determine if the language fluency deficits in Lyme disease were transient or a long-standing effect, although the PTLDS group had been ill for years despite antibiotic treatment. Nor was the study designed to determine the cause of the language fluency deficits in Lyme disease.

References:
  1. Amen Clinics. November 15, 2022. https://rb.gy/ac4geu
  2. Gorlyn M, Keilp JG, Fallon BA. Language Fluency Deficits in Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. Dec 22 2022;doi:10.1093/arclin/acac095

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Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-pandemic-lockdowns-freedom-torched

Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched

To this day, no one in the corporate media seems even slightly interested in why, how, or when human rights got abolished by bureaucratic edict.

By Jeffrey A. Tucker

“Beware the Ides of March,” Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending assassination on March 15, 44 B.C.

The death of American liberty happened around the same time four years ago, when orders went out from all levels of government to close all indoor and outdoor venues where people gather.

It was not quite a law and it was never voted on by anyone. Seemingly out of nowhere, people whom the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge — mayors, governors and the president — that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights.

And they did, not only in the U.S. but all over the world.

The forced closures in the U.S. began on March 6, 2020, when the mayor of Austin, Texas, announced the shutdown of the technology and arts festival South by Southwest.

Hundreds of thousands of contracts, of attendees and vendors, were instantly scrapped. The mayor said he was acting on the advice of his health experts and they in turn pointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which in turn pointed to the World Health Organization (WHO), which in turn pointed to member states and so on.

There was no record of COVID-19 in Austin, Texas, that day but they were sure they were doing their part to stop the spread. It was the first deployment of the “Zero Covid” strategy that became, for a time, official U.S. policy, just as in China.

It was never clear precisely who to blame or who would take responsibility, legal or otherwise.

This Friday evening press conference in Austin was just the beginning. By the next Thursday evening, March 12, 2020, the lockdown mania reached a full crescendo.

President Donald Trump went on nationwide television to announce that everything was under control but that he was stopping all travel in and out of U.S. borders, from Europe, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. American citizens would need to return by Monday or be stuck.

Americans abroad panicked while spending on tickets home and crowded into international airports with waits of up to eight hours standing shoulder to shoulder. It was the first clear sign: that there would be no consistency in the deployment of these edicts.

There is no historical record of any American president ever issuing global travel restrictions like this without a declaration of war. Until then, and since the age of travel began, every American had taken it for granted that he could buy a ticket and board a plane.

That was no longer possible. Very quickly it became even more difficult to travel from state to state, as most states eventually implemented a two-week quarantine rule.

The next day, Friday, March 13, 2020, Broadway closed and New York City began to empty out as any residents who could go to summer homes or out of state.

On that day, the Trump administration declared a national emergency by invoking the Stafford Act, which triggered new powers and resources to the Federal Emergency Management Administration, or FEMA.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a classified document, only to be released to the public months later. The document initiated the lockdowns. It still does not exist on any government website.

“The White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, led by the Vice President, will coordinate a whole-of-government approach, including governors, state and local officials, and members of Congress, to develop the best options for the safety, well-being, and health of the American people.

“The HHS is the LFA [Lead Federal Agency] for coordinating the federal response to COVID-19.”

Closures were guaranteed:

“Recommend significantly limiting public gatherings and cancellation of almost all sporting events, performances, and public and private meetings that cannot be convened by phone. Consider school closures.

“Issue widespread ‘stay at home’ directives for public and private organizations, with nearly 100% telework for some, although critical public services and infrastructure may need to retain skeleton crews.

“Law enforcement could shift to focus more on crime prevention, as routine monitoring of storefronts could be important.”

In this vision of turnkey totalitarian control of society, the vaccine was pre-approved: “Partner with pharmaceutical industry to produce anti-virals and vaccine.”

The U.S. National Security Council was put in charge of policymaking. The CDC was just a marketing operation. That’s why it felt like martial law. Without using those words, that’s what was being declared. It even urged information management, with censorship strongly implied.

The timing here is fascinating. This document came out on a Friday. But according to every autobiographical account — from Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Scott Gottlieb to Deborah Birx and Jared Kushner — the gathered team did not meet with Trump himself until the weekend of March 14-15, 2020, Saturday and Sunday.

According to their account, this was his first real encounter with the urge to lock down the whole country. He reluctantly agreed to 15 days to flatten the curve.

He announced this on Monday, March 16, 2020, with the famous line: “All public and private venues where people gather should be closed.”

This makes no sense. The decision had already been made and all enabling documents were already in circulation.

There are only two possibilities.

One: the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued this March 13, 2020, HHS document without Trump’s knowledge or authority. That seems unlikely.

Two: Kushner, Birx, Pence and Gottlieb are lying. They decided on a story and they are sticking to it.

Trump himself has never explained the timeline or precisely when he decided to greenlight the lockdowns. To this day, he avoids the issue beyond his constant claim that he doesn’t get enough credit for his handling of the pandemic.

With President Richard Nixon, the famous question was always what did he know and when did he know it? When it comes to Trump and insofar as concerns COVID-19 lockdowns — unlike the fake allegations of collusion with Russia — we have no investigations.

To this day, no one in the corporate media seems even slightly interested in why, how, or when human rights got abolished by bureaucratic edict.

As part of the lockdowns, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which was and is part of the DHS, as set up in 2018, broke the entire American labor force into essential and nonessential.

They also set up and enforced censorship protocols, which is why it seemed like so few objected. In addition, CISA was tasked with overseeing mail-in ballots.

Only eight days into the 15, Trump announced that he wanted to open the country by Easter on April 12, 2020.

His announcement on March 24, 2020, was treated as outrageous and irresponsible by the national press but keep in mind that Easter would already take us beyond the initial two-week lockdown. What seemed to be an opening was an extension of closing.

This announcement by Trump encouraged Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci to ask for an additional 30 days of lockdown, which Trump granted.

Even on April 23, 2020, Trump told Georgia and Florida, which had made noises about reopening, that “It’s too soon.” He publicly fought with the governor of Georgia, who was the first to open his state.

Before the 15 days were over, Congress passed and the president signed the 880-page CARES Act, which authorized the distribution of $2 trillion to states, businesses and individuals, thus guaranteeing that lockdowns would continue for the duration.

There was never a stated exit plan beyond Birx’s public statements that she wanted zero cases of COVID-19 in the country. That was never going to happen. Likely, the virus had already been circulating in the U.S. and Canada since October 2019.

A famous seroprevalence study by Jay Bhattacharya M.D., Ph.D., came out in May 2020 discerning that infections and immunity were already widespread in the California county they examined.

What that implied was two crucial points: there was zero hope for the “Zero Covid” mission and this pandemic would end as they all did, through endemicity via exposure, not from a vaccine as such.

That was certainly not the message that was being broadcast from Washington, D.C. The growing sense at the time was that we all had to sit tight and just wait for the inoculation on which pharmaceutical companies were working.

By the summer of 2020, you recall what happened. A restless generation of kids fed up with this stay-at-home nonsense seized on the opportunity to protest racial injustice in the killing of George Floyd.

Public health officials approved of these gatheringsunlike protests against lockdowns — on grounds that racism was a virus even more serious than COVID-19.

Some of these protests got out of hand and became violent and destructive.

Meanwhile, substance abuse rage — the liquor and weed stores never closed — and immune systems were being degraded by lack of normal exposure, exactly as the Bakersfield doctors had predicted. Millions of small businesses had closed.

The learning losses from school closures were mounting, as it turned out that Zoom school was nearly worthless.

It was about this time that Trump seemed to figure out — thanks to the wise council of Dr. Scott Atlas — that he had been played and started urging states to reopen.

But it was strange: he seemed to be less in the position of being a president in charge and more of a public pundit, tweeting out his wishes until his account was banned. He was unable to put the worms back in the can that he had approved opening.

By that time, and by all accounts, Trump was convinced that the whole effort was a mistake, that he had been trolled into wrecking the country he promised to make great. It was too late.

Mail-in ballots had been widely approved, the country was in shambles, the media and public health bureaucrats were ruling the airwaves and his final months of the campaign failed even to come to grips with the reality on the ground.

At the time, many people had predicted that once Biden took office and the vaccine was released, COVID-19 would be declared to have been beaten. But that didn’t happen and mainly for one reason: resistance to the vaccine was more intense than anyone had predicted.

The Biden administration attempted to impose mandates on the entire U.S. workforce. Thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, that effort was thwarted but not before human resource departments around the country had already implemented them.

As the months rolled on — and four major cities closed all public accommodations to the unvaccinated, who were being demonized for prolonging the pandemic — it became clear that the vaccine could not and would not stop infection or transmission, which means that this shot could not be classified as a public health benefit.

Even as a private benefit, the evidence was mixed. Any protection it provided was short-lived and reports of vaccine injury began to mount. Even now, we cannot gain full clarity on the scale of the problem because essential data and documentation remain classified.

After four years, we find ourselves in a strange position. We still do not know precisely what unfolded in mid-March 2020: who made what decisions, when and why. There has been no serious attempt at any high level to provide a clear accounting much less assign blame.

Not even Tucker Carlson, who reportedly played a crucial role in getting Trump to panic over the virus, will tell us the source of his own information or what his source told him.

There have been a series of valuable hearings in the House and Senate but they have received little to no press attention, and none have focused on the lockdown orders themselves.

The prevailing attitude in public life is just to forget the whole thing. And yet we live now in a country very different from the one we inhabited five years ago. Our media is captured.

Social media is widely censored in violation of the First Amendment, a problem being taken up by the Supreme Court this month with no certainty of the outcome.

The administrative state that seized control has not given up power. Crime has been normalized. Art and music institutions are on the rocks. Public trust in all official institutions is at rock bottom. We don’t even know if we can trust the elections anymore.

In the early days of lockdown, Henry Kissinger warned that if the mitigation plan does not go well, the world will find itself set “on fire.” He died in 2023. Meanwhile, the world is indeed on fire.

The essential struggle in every country on Earth today concerns the battle between the authority and power of the permanent administration apparatus of the state — the very one that took total control in lockdowns — and the enlightenment ideal of a government that is responsible for the will of the people and the moral demand for freedom and rights.

How this struggle turns out is the essential story of our times.

Originally published by Brownstone Institute.

Jeffrey Tucker is the founder, author and president of Brownstone Institute.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.

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