jayberjay on Nostr: I’ve posted a couple times about a major covid article I’ve been working on. I ...

I’ve posted a couple times about a major covid article I’ve been working on. I realistically hope to release it this month, but in the meantime I figured I’d offer up a teaser.

Here are a handful of my favorite quotes from my unpublished article:

“Prompted by conjecture, hearsay, and misinformation, the profession tasked to think and act on verifiable fact – public health – succumbed to peer pressure, circumvented peer review, and blindly followed the leads of a disgraced forecaster and a notoriously oppressive nation.”

“And this is the heart of the issue with censorship. It is incompatible with democratic values because it prevents conscientious dissent and the intellectual exercise of questioning beliefs, while presuming authorities are unimpeachable arbiters of facts.”

“As Warren Buffet famously said, “it's only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.” In the context of covid, the pierced veil of censorship has exposed that the emperors of lockdown have no clothes.”

“Going forward, if the public will to challenge authority and critically re-evaluate questionable premises like asymptomatic spread remains weak, then cognitive dissonance will stay strong, and those disseminating scientific fictions will be emboldened. Consequently, today’s deceptions may form the basis of tomorrow’s truths, especially in the minds of the young and impressionable, who will invariably build their future on those faulty foundations.”

“In the right place, for the right reason, for a limitedtime, and worn by the right person, a mask might make sense. As a blanket measure for the public, they are suffocating. The futility of universal masking should have been acknowledged long ago, if only logically inconsistent ‘experts’ hadn’t duped themselves into believing their own masquerade, becoming unironically intoxicated by it.”

“In the end, the healthcare system that authorities said required saving via sacrifice from millions of healthy Canadians failed miserably in its objective, abandoning those who most relied on it in their most desperate hours of need – and then the system crumbled anyway.”

“Purdue Pharma, the infamous creator of the wildly addictive opioid OxyContin, would wine and dine doctors, serenading them with “carefully honed” key messages to sway them into prescribing the product. Among those messages were that OxyContin was not addictive, that it was “safe and effective,” and that doctors were “opiate-phobic” if they had an “irrational” fear of opiates. Draw your own parallels to the terms “anti-vax” and “vaccine hesitancy.””

“Under more sensible leadership, the Canadian government would have expanded access to essential medications like HCQ and IVM. Instead, it eagerly dismissed them, while expanding access to fentanyl, heroin, crack cocaine, and medically assisted suicide for minors, to accelerate so-called “progress.” Such is the sorry state of Canada’s “new normal,” where health leaders are inclusive of policies that induce self-harm, but hastily deny potential remedies supporting strong immune systems and strong physiological health.”

“All told, the dubious approach to treating covid has exposed some crucial weaknesses of the modern healthcare industry; it has grown preoccupied with expensive and underwhelming pharmaceuticals; uncritical of demonstrable regulatory bias and incompetence; underappreciative of time-tested remedies; and uninterested in the remarkable healing power of a healthy and active mind, body, and spirit.”