By Brandon Smith
I have been feverishly writing lately on covid mandates and vaccine passports issues, and I’m sure most readers understand why – We are currently at the cusp of a great conflict against the powers that be; people who are exploiting the (mostly manufactured) covid crisis for unprecedented political and economic control. And when I say “manufactured”, I mean that there is no crisis, no need for mandates, no need for lockdowns and no need for vaccine passports.
We are dealing with a virus that around 99.7% of people will easily survive according to the medical establishment’s own studies and stats as well as numerous independent studies, yet, for some reason we are being bombarded with fear mongering from the media and from governments.
Why is the only solution being suggested to the general public involve us giving up all of our freedoms and medical autonomy? Why is 99.7% of the population supposed to lock down, mask up and submit to an experimental mRNA vaccine with no long term testing data to prove its safety? Why don’t the 0.26% of people that are truly at risk of dying from the virus simply take precautions or stay home while the rest of us get on with normal life? Hell, I would be fine with contributing to a fund to help support the 0.26% at risk, to help their families and help with their medical bills.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks burned trillions of dollars in stimulus measures and PPP loans to keep businesses from going completely bankrupt, and to keep jobless “non-essential” workers from starving during the initial shutdowns. But , we could have simply kept the economy going this entire time and paid a fraction of that cost helping the tiny minority of people that would actually suffer from the illness.
Yes, that’s right, I’ll say it again and again because I STILL to this day see the media and misinformed covid cultists continually claim the death rate of covid is much higher. It is not. The median Infection Fatality rate of covid is ONLY 0.26%. This is a FACT. This is the science according the vast majority of medical studies out there on the IFR. Let me repeat: The entire world is being locked down and told we have to give up our inherent human liberties because 0.26% of the population might get more than sniffles and brain fog from a covid infection. Why?
Well, that’s easy; because the covid response and restrictions have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with public control.
This essay is a little different from what I usually write in that it is not so much an appeal to pure reason or pure science and more an appeal to principle. I have been asked by many readers lately if it is not better to argue against pandemic mandates based on ideals and principles rather than hammering away at the science. I think it’s important to do both, but let’s take a moment to consider the moral question and the moral question alone. To do that we must ask some simple questions:
Who has the right to control your medical decisions? Who is qualified to control your constitutional right to life, liberty and the right to seek out prosperity? Who should be given the power to tell you what you can say, where you can work, where you can buy, where you can sell, where you can walk, where you can travel, what you must believe in?
The answer is NO ONE, except yourself that is. But of course, the covid cult and the people that benefit from the pandemic will claim that your rights no longer apply when you are “putting the lives of others at risk”. It’s the old social contract argument – You are “part of a society”, therefore society has expectations that supersede your rights. This is all nonsense, but it’s a classic strategy used by every totalitarian in modern times. It’s never been about what “society” wants, it’s always only ever been about what the tyrants want.
As I have noted in numerous articles with endless scientific facts and evidence, no one who wants to remain free from covid mandates or vaccine passports is putting anyone else at risk. Again, the median death rate for covid is 0.26% and neither the mandates, nor the masks, nor the vaccines have put a stop to covid infections. Interestingly, it has been the states with the harshest lockdowns and mask restrictions that had the highest rates of infection for the past 18 months. Even now, fully vaccinated people are getting covid by the thousands in “breakout cases”, and some of them have died. Infections and deaths dropped off in January long before the vaccines were widely manufactured. Only 5% of the US population was vaccinated with a single dose by February. The fact is, the vaccines have achieved nothing.
Even if I was among the 0.26% of people that are at risk of dying, I would NEVER demand that the other 99.7% of the population give up their freedoms and their children’s freedoms just so I might feel a little bit safer. That would be an act of selfish madness.
Thank you for posting the article from Brandon Smith. His conclusions are right on target. “We will not comply.”
I meant to reply to this blog, and accidentally posted it in the wrong one.
The whole Covid thing reeks to the heavens and beyond. The US gave the technology to and illicitly paid a communist nation to build a bio-weapon and it got unleashed on the world. Whether it was intentional or not, we may never know, but we do know that there has been a cover up of the truth ever since. Not only is there a cover up, but a “vaccine” that was supposedly developed before this virus was even in the wild, which is growing increasingly questionable is being forced upon the populace. Brandon is right in that the answer must be “We Will NOT comply”. Personally, I think we are on the brink of things going kinetic, and likely not just in the US and these mandates, coupled with trying to destroy people’s livelihood for refusal to submit is going to push people over the edge.
In the post I put in the wrong place, I took, and still do, exception to his “fact” that for 99.97% of the population, “It’s just the flu, bro”, aka using the IFR. Its akin to the similar argument that it only effects the old or the sick, which is equally ignorant. We really do not know how many people have been infected, but if it were anywhere near the population figure that is assumed in using this IFR figure we wouldn’t be having 120,000 people yesterday in the US seeking medical care for it because everyone would already be immune. Statistically speaking about 2% of those people will die as a result. Let’s put it this way, if I gave you a bowl with 100 skittles in it and said 2 of them are poisoned and will kill you, are you going to eat from that bowl?
The thing is that a foreign, hostile, nation unleashed a bio-weapon. I guess we can be thankful that it only kills 2% of those who contract it and even that neglects the so called “long haulers” and we’ve done nothing. We’ve been lied to about the virus and we’ve done nothing. The “elites” have used this as an excuse to steal from the populace and transfer our wealth to them at a record pace and we’ve done nothing. In several places they’ve forced people into their homes under threat of imprisonment and even used the military to enforce it and we’ve done nothing. Now they’ve started trying to force everyone to get this “vaccine” which has some serious questions about it and developed with technology that has had little testing. In some places, including here in NC, they’re even using the military (national guard) to intimidate, not persuade, people to take it. With all that not being enough they’re now trying to force people to get it over the threat of loss of income. And we still do nothing.
Let me circle back to why I object to his it’s a nothing-burger for 99.75% of the population. A quick DDG search says that it is estimated that roughly 10% of the people who contract a CASE of Covid, meaning sick enough to seek medical care become “long haulers”. That is on top of the 2% who die. So, in other words, for roughly 12% of the people who knowingly contract the disease it will have serious impacts. That’s far more than 0.25% and a much bigger reason for people to actually DO SOMETHING.
I know this is a hard pill to swallow but the medical industrial complex is killing people. Putting you on a vent kills you. Especially if it’s treatment for what is primarily a cardiovascular disease (it presents in people differently depending on their pre-existing conditions)
Denying your treatment with ivermectin and the other remedies because decisions are being made regarding care by bureaucrats and not the knowledgable medical people is increasing the death count. Big Pharma is the push to get us all dependent upon the medical industrial complex. Big Chyna is behind the not-!vaxes because THIS is the 2nd bioweapon. Covid was just the excuse and only affects seriously a very small percentage.
This delay has allowed the fraud based shit show of robbing us blind and demoralizing us to continue for as long as it has. And we’re all unable to coordinate because of mistrust and division.
and Don’t believe their numbers anyway. they Lie. about everything. They are communists or commie symps. If your job depends on a lie you will certainly keep the lie going. None of this needs to be drilled into them. it is human nature.
Part of the reason there are “long haulers” (health impacts) is because it is primarily a NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY. we are surrounded by an abundance of food with little nutritional value to what we need for our physical condition.
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
George Orwell
That should say, “putting you a vent kills you SOMETIMES. it’s the last ditch effort to save your life, but if you’re on a vent for something that doesn’t require it, it kills you. or if it’s set wrong,not everyone g raduates at the top of their class.
I have multiple catastrophes going on here. my bad.
China has always resisted the “China virus” “Wuhan virus” cheerleading. Recently the Chinese gubmint got 20 million signatures petitioning the World Health Organization, [that’s an oxymoron!] to investigate the now closed bioweapon lab in Ft. Detrick.
Wuhan, of all places, hosted the 2019 military Olympic games in 10/19. 2 weeks after the games ended the first outbreak was recorded. Did the U.S. military athletes deliver the bioweapon? China becomes the patsy. Sounds like dancing Muslims rather than dancing Israelis.
Curiously, the Hunan province of China was slammed with a once in a hundred year deluge. They received a normal year’s amount of rain in 5 days. There was much loss of human and animal life. Crop loss and human misery to follow. Coincidence or weather warfare? Hmmm. Why no screaming in Congress about the Ft. Detrick allegations? Why no cry for investigations?
“The median Infection Fatality rate of covid is ONLY 0.26%. This is a FACT.”
Like hell it is.
It’s a statistic entirely dependent upon faulty PCR tests and claiming any death of a person with a positive test has died OF Covid.