Rejoice! The media has decided that the pandemic can now finally be over!
By now you’ve likely seen a clip of CNN’s Jake Tapper catching up with the rest of us - two years too late, some would argue - and asking why people in hospital with Covid are being counted in the official figures, especially when asymptomatic.
Meanwhile CDC director Rochelle Walensky has been busy sewing her own seeds of doubt, highlighting on Good Morning America that most Omicron deaths are among people with co-morbidities. In another interview, this time with Fox, she revealed that the CDC will be looking at how many people have died of Omicron, and how many have died with it.
Over in the UK last week, Sky News aired a clip of a doctor telling Health Minister Sajid Javid that he thought the jab mandate due to be rolled out for British health workers in April was the wrong policy.
Tellingly, when you search for the clip on YouTube it comes up at the top of the list, a clear sign that someone wants the clip out there. Try searching for anything on Tucker Carlson’s show and you’ll see what I mean. The doctor, Steve James, was then interviewed on Radio Four, perhaps the most establishment of all the BBC platforms, He’s since gone on to talk to multiple other outlets, including this long form interview with UnHerd.
The BBC has since further cracked the narrative with this article asking “Is the pandemic entering its endgame?” and if so…
And in Israel too, a doctor at Ichilov hospital tweeted a whole thread explaining that there are zero people with Omicron on ventilators, that the strain is far less serious, that flu is generally worse, and that of the two patients in Ichilov who are in serious condition with Covid, one was in a car crash, and the other has bleeding on the brain. She too went on to be interviewed by the Israeli media.
In fact, the change of narrative has been so widespread and abrupt that many commentators are now asking what’s up. Off Guardian has listed far more examples than the few above, and posed four pertinent questions:
Why is the director of the CDC (seemingly) engaging with these Covid skeptic arguments after two years of pretending they don’t exist?
Why would Sky News air, and then tweet out, the video clip of a doctor challenging the health secretary?
Why is the Guardian running headlines like “End mass jabs and live with Covid, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce” and quoting medical personnel who say we need to “treat Covid like the flu”?
Why are new studies being promoted that claim T cells from ordinary colds can “protect you from Covid”?
All good questions indeed.
The author of the piece, Kit Knightly, notes that the narrative has clearly shifted from “Boosters! Boosters! Getcha boosters!” to “We must live with Covid.” His hypothesis is that the cabal overextended itself on the vaccine narrative, and has decided to pull back a little to hold on to captured ground, before advancing a new attack from another quarter:
To use an apt metaphor, imagine the “Great Reset” agenda as an invading army, marching through town after town, winning battle after battle and burning as they go.
There comes a point where you have to stop. Your supply lines are pulled taut, your men are tired and numbers dwindling, and the occupied citizens are putting up more and more resistance. Push on now, and your entire campaign could crumble.
What you do in that situation is withdraw to a defensible position and fortify it. You don’t give back the land you’ve taken, or not much of it at least, but you stop pushing forward.
The people whose land you have invaded will be so glad the war is over, so tired of fighting, they’ll be so relieved by the respite before realising how much of their land you’ve taken away. They may even say “let them keep it, as long as they stop attacking us”.
That’s how conquest works, from the days of ancient Rome and beyond. A cycle of aggression followed by fortification.
When we switch from “pandemic” to “endemic”, we won’t be getting our rights back, the vaccine passes and surveillance and the culture of paranoia and fear will remain, but people will be so relieved at the pause in the campaign of fear and propaganda they will stop resisting.
They won’t push back, and the “New Normal” will literally become just that, normal.
And then, one day when people are nice and docile again, a new variant will come back, or we’ll need a “climate lockdown”, and the push for control of every aspect of our lives will start up again in earnest.
It’s possible.
JP Sears has his own take.
He thinks that the media are backtracking because they’ve lost control of the narrative. This also possible. As Sears points out:
A major factor that's causing the narrative to decompose has been the truth that's been exposed on the Joe Rogan podcast recently with two of the most credible doctors you can find … Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone [who have] single-handedly causing a shift in consciousness about the narrative.
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It's all crumbling down. A few months ago those who try to control the narrative threw Joe Rogan under the bus, smearing him for successfully using alternative
treatments instead of him being blindly obedient. Big mistake. What they actually
did was wake up a dragon.Joe Rogan, who is a man of the people now, seems to be more dedicated than ever to exposing their lies with the light of truth. … Now instead of the few who control the narrative controlling the people with a narrative, the people are controlling the narrative based on where they're putting their attention.
How so? Recent stats show each episode of Joe Rogan's podcast gets 13 times the viewership of CNN, making it the number one source of news.
When the Sky News video of Dr. Steve Peter came out, there was a lot of cheering on Twitter and other social media. People were quite ebullient about it, convinced that the narrative was collapsing. For my part I was more skeptical at the time, pointing out that there was no way Sky News would have aired his comments had they not wanted to - so they must have a reason to want to.
For a few days I was feeling positively nervous. After all, we know that the end of Covid won’t be the end of it all. Governments are already openly championing plans for ‘Net Zero Carbon’, banking on people not realising that this means their lights won’t be staying on for much longer.
And that’s the least of their plans. There are whole government white papers for the creation of Smart Cities, Digital IDs, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 5G, blah blah blah. None of this is new; the Smart Cities paper was written in 2013.
So for a good few days I asked myself with trepidation: If ‘They’ were winding down Covid, what where ‘They’ planning for us next? A banking crash? Terrorism? War?
I’m not the sort of person who can stand not knowing, so after a few days I downloaded Klaus Schwab’s new book, The Great Narrative, co-authored with Thierry Malleret, to find out what was in store.
Over the last few years, mostly through observation, I’ve developed a list of ‘natural rules for life’ - essentially a collection of aphorisms. One of them is: ‘Whatever you expect to happen, is not what will happen.’
I picked up Schwab’s book expecting to be cowed by the might of his intellect, overawed by the meticulous planning that has led to most of the world being bamboozled into crashing economies and locking down Granny. Instead I found myself laughing.
Take this excerpt. I promise you, this is typical of the whole book:
When researching this book and during our interviews [with 50 prominent thinkers], the word “complexity” emerged repeatedly, often alluded to in terms of how it makes it more difficult to comprehend what’s going on in the world. In private conversations, we also heard decision-makers confess “they are a bit lost” or “don’t really know what’s happening”. This is understandable: complexity creates limits to our knowledge and understanding of things. …
Moisés Naím put it neatly when he said: “I’ve grown very attached to a statement made in the 1930s by José Ortega y Gasset, a famous Spanish philosopher and thinker, who said, “We do not know what is happening to us.” And that’s exactly what’s happening to us.
I’ve been to dinner parties with people who talk like this: I can hear now the hushed tone used to introduce with great pomp the credentialed intellectual whom they will now proceed to venerate by quoting. Witness the nodding of heads and murmurs of awed agreement at the Great Pronouncement when finally it is released upon the gathered acolytes. The profundity! The insight! Yes, yes, how blessed we are to have this teaching!
As though no one had ever noticed before that life can be confusing! That the world is complex!
These! These pygmies of intellect dare to control us! And we let them!
‘Scuse my French people, but fucking hell! What are we doing?! Why do we give these cretins so much power? People, the emperor has no clothes! Turn away! We have enough problems to contend with in dealing with this mess of a world that they have created, to give them another second of our time.
There will be those among you who say: “Come now Donna, can’t you see? This is part of the plan! They are merely pretending to be confused so to further bamboozle us! It’s all been carefully plotted years, perhaps centuries in advance! This must just be the latest twist in their fiendishly diabolical scheme. How clever they are!
To those determined to think that way, I say: Go ahead. I can’t stop you, any more than Fauci can make you wear a mask, or Bill Gates can make you take a vaccine.
For my part, I’m no longer afraid of any Great Reset. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist - undoubtedly these people have their plans, and they have money and power. But their money and power allows them only to create a façade of capability. They have no any particular skill or intellect. They are not more clever than us, or more prepared. They are not three steps ahead of us at all times. They merely have some assets which allow them to get their own way more often than not.
But their money and power hinders them, too. They have no imagination, because they’ve never had to come up with an imaginative solution to a problem. Why bother when you can throw money at it? They have no spirit, because they’ve never had to dig deep and bravely stand up to something more powerful than they.
Consequently, they foolishly conceive that their money and power can buy them God’s throne. They are not the first people on the planet to have fallen into this trap.
“I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Look on Fauci’s works, ye Mighty, look on Schwab’s, but I beg you, don’t despair. They have money and power now, but money and power fade to lone and level sands. You have imagination and spirit, the currency of eternity. And you’re going to need it for what comes next.