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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Exactly ZERO stories about individuals and businesses owners losing their livelihood. No stories about the mistakes made with children. No stories about despair and on and on...and on.

Its as if NOTHING happened on the other side of the coin.

At no time in our history has this country, on balance, been that selfish or callous.

Pisses me off more than anything.

Decaf's avatar

The darkest time in my life. No one who followed the narrative admitted that this was a bleak time for them until 2025. And even then it was just one or two. What's that all about? Were they that consumed by the stupid narrative?

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Same.

Never so alone...but never so ALIVE

SF Bay Area's avatar

Everyone should be fucking furious. Until the scumbags behind this psych op are rotting in prison, we should never fucking stop fighting.

PDG's avatar

Still zero consequences, that is zero with a capital ZERO. You might think that Orange man would realize it was created to get rid of Orange man and do something about it.

Contrary to Ordinary's avatar

“get rid of Orange man”

That will be the last shoe to drop. The leak was intentional, but for an idea of how long it will take for it to be “proven”, see the JFK/MLK/RFK/Epstein/DJT files. I am far from a conspiracy monger, but have come to regard them as spoiler alerts.

PDG's avatar

They saw the threat that Trump brings to their establishment. We now all see what they feared. The virus was created by US and Chinese researchers at the WIV. The destruction of Trump was the primary reason to release this ... BTW: it worked, kind of. Of course all they did was put things off for 4 years and empower him to go after them relentlessly ... which he is.

Eugene H's avatar

Never happen they will skate. Unless some patriot exchanges his for one of the others. Lets give them 5 yrs before that happens

Decaf's avatar

So true. It was an amazing opportunity on every level, but no one I knew got it. In a sense, it's several years I can't share with my friends, even now. They do not get it.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Same. Exact same. Not one of them. Even the ones who finally figured it out towards the end don't want to acknowledge it....let alone talk about it.

Decaf's avatar

I'm stunned. Until right now I thought it was just the people I knew. It's like they were comatose and LIKED it. They'll get sucked right back into the fog, as they did with Ukraine, the next time and the next time, etc. Maybe they were comforted that they had company in their pit. One friend received comfort from "alone, together". She's still living alone, barely sees anyone.

CMCM's avatar

There's a term for this behavior: SHEEPLE

Eileen's avatar

So true…same perplexing and rather disturbing reality! The ones who don’t get it don’t want to either!

PDG's avatar

You are exactly right. Most people just want to forget and go on with their lives. The clot shot victims families also just want to go on with their lives. I mean, what happened to people?

Dena's avatar

I think people became too comfortable, too soft. Don’t rock my comfortable world! Don’t worry me with facts & truth. And also to willing to believe the bs coming out of msm/ Dem party. One feeds the other.

Dena's avatar

It’s a rare person who can admit they were wrong; especially that they were fooled. And even a rarer person who will apologize for harms done. Pride - one of the biggest of human flaws-

BikerChick's avatar

Ditto. Awful. Alex and a handful of others helped me to maintain some semblance of sanity. I couldn’t believe the number of kool aid drinkers. I wanted to shout everywhere WHY ARE YOU ALL SO DAMN AFRAID?!?!?! Sure some should be extra cautious but not the majority of people.

Decaf's avatar

Alex and a couple of other online sources were my only refuge for a while as well. It's interesting how they were comforted by knowing everyone else was in a cave, just like them. I never want to know that world.

SF Bay Area's avatar

Examine the Trilateral Commission’s reports, such as the 1975 publication The Crisis of Democracy. It argued, among other conclusions, that excessive education and an over-informed public could challenge governance, suggesting a need to moderate the level of public education and awareness to maintain stability.

Lia's avatar

WTF is "an over-informed public"???

SF Bay Area's avatar

It’s a fucking crazy story. These asshole thought we were over-educating our youth and creating too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

Seemsastho's avatar

Happens at every level of gov't. Provide the citizens with as little information as the gov't can get away with and push through an agenda/ resolution/ moratorium/ new zoning before the public has learned what is being voted on. Seems as though the only time the elected officials want anything from the voting public is when they are courting voters to be elected for an office. Once elected, the citizens are an obstacle with which they prefer not to contend.

carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

i'll never stop being angry about it. i think a few public hangings would be a healing experience

Nick's avatar

Country is in gradual decline. Nothing to it but got to admit it.

working rich's avatar

But the NYT ran a fake news article about a Brooklyn bar owner who died “because” he watched Fox News. Completely fake story. Dates were wrong, reporting was about made up events.

Mark G. Meyers's avatar

All of this documentation could have been compiled while compiling clout. With 2/3 support on claims of govt injustices, this could happen democratically, outside of the govt., using the method most people trust. For your perusal:

https://markgmeyers.substack.com/p/now-and-for-the-future Cheers.

SF Bay Area's avatar

That’s a heavy read. Let me try and break it down for some people who may not be able to read and comprehend the authors idea.

Think of this like a neighborhood watch, but instead of watching for burglars, it's watching the government for corruption. The author wants regular people to form a giant club that's super democratic, super local, and super strong, so they can stand up to big corporations and corrupt politicians. They think the internet can help get it started, but the real power comes from people meeting up in person, building trust, and taking action together. It's a big, ambitious idea, and he knows it won't be easy, but he think it's the only way to fix things.

I suggest a bunch of billionaires buy Baja California from Mexico and build a new city and try this model. 😏

Mark G. Meyers's avatar

A most recent thought I had on this is from looking at NYC. It's one city. It's got serious govt problems. Perhaps if they were organized across the city districts, they could "bring it" to city hall there. As compared to the nation, I do think it will be easier for the people to rise and meet elected officials at city and state levels.

Kurt's avatar

There is a reason why all of the "experts" and anyone involved with the "system" deserve extirpation. It is one thing to be a parasite. It is another to be not only a parasite, but to actively impede private life activities of those who have nothing to do with you.

Buffy Gilfoil's avatar

The opposite is true. Not only are the mea culpas lacking, but Fauci and Collins are proud of themselves and the job they did. In 2020 Fauci orchestrated a campaign against those who believed in the lab leak theory, and he's been on a speaking tour. Until DOGE caught it, about $150,000 had been budgeted for a museum exhibit about Fauci. On March 7, Collins, who had directed a "quick and devastating takedown" of Jay Bhattacharya, was singing a folk song at a "Stand Up For Science" rally.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

How is the opposite true?

You're doing a fine job of partially proving my point.

Ryan Murray's avatar

I'l never forget an old woman from Nebraska called into Rush Limbaugh show in April 2020. And she said "the all know it came from a lab, Rush. No way they shut everything down if they didn't know". And she was 100% right. Even at that time Rush was skeptical it came from lab. But that midwestern woman knew.

Heyjude's avatar

My son said it came from the lab when I went to babysit my grandkids on the first day of school shutdown. I cautioned him not to believe every conspiracy he sees online.

He still laughs when he reminds me of that day.

Dave's avatar

The difference between a conspiracy theory and reality is about 6 months.

Dave's avatar

The tell was when the Chicoms cleaned it out, destroyed everything and disappeared everyone that might talk.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

The good old boys (and women) knew because they have good bullshit meters and wisdom.

Two attributes in short supply.

People sure do love their precious gooberment.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Ryan, don’t know if you follow Steve Kirsh or not, but he has research Denis Rancourt on and Rancourt mentioned Covid was even more sinister than a lab leak.

Rancourt mentions that there was never a virus and the whole pandemic was an exercise in power by governments.

Crazy all the narratives flying around.

Brogan12's avatar

Anyone with a smidgen of common sense KNOWS it was planned and INTENTIONAL. All of it was just "allowed" to play out too and still is

ktrip's avatar

I always felt that for Fauci, it was one big experiment which is why he needed everyone to do what they were told or it would "ruin everything!" The added bonus was getting rid of Trump. I think everyone else made this the crisis they could not let go to waste for various reasons- WEF Globalist stuff, of course the aforementioned getting rid of Trump as priority 1 (as opposed to priority 2 for mad scientist Fauci and his friends), saving the environment, etc. I think the Chinese saw it as a way to get rid of their old people and get one up on us.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

That’s a great point there. Essentially every “elite” had something to win here.

Regarding Fauci, I wrote an old article on him and his agenda starting all the way from HIV: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-it-does-matter

Elizabeth's avatar

I still think it was released purposely to get rid of Trump.

CMCM's avatar

I was fortunate enough to read stuff in January and February about how the genome had been released by China, and various European scientists had come out stating it looked manipulated due to the furin cleavage site they observed and which could not occur so perfectly in nature. Then all that initial stuff I read got pulled down and I couldn't find it again. I wish I had had the foresight to screen shot it! So to me, I thought from about February onwards that it came from the lab and I was shocked at how everyone jumped on the wet market/nature explanation.

Brogan12's avatar

Rush was not WISE to all things as much as I miss his insight...he was not tuned in to the under-belly of the cabal who implemented to 2020 PLANdemic early on for sure!

Juliann's avatar

Who had the foresight to add a Pandemic clause to a loan agreement? Back in 2019?

Initials are G. S.

Brogan12's avatar

Fauci did say there would BE a PLANdemic on Trumps watch

Jennifer L's avatar

Stories like this are how anyone who found Alex (and others) early enough, asking questions, maintained some critical thinking skills. For my family, it was my husband, in the USA, who knew someone moving his family out of China to native Canada in Sept 2019 because, "there's some weird virus floating around and we don't want to ride it out here." It is mind boggling that the world is small enough for this level of information to circulate ground zero yet large enough that the network of agenda-pushing, criminal behavior can still be effective and efficient. Which leads me back to how the American lifestyle and education system impacts our thinking caps.... bravo Alex for helping to change the monetization of media to shape those who preferred the comfort of cog in the old railway.

reality speaks's avatar

This is just more evidence that there is something evil going on in high places. This is not just incompetence. This was planned by some evil people.

Louise C's avatar

I've always thought that covid was their way of getting rid of Trump. He would have been elected in 2020 because the economy was great. They impeached him, they said he was a Russian agent, and they spent 45 million on special counsel investigation of Russiagate. Nothing worked, people liked Trump in spite of what the Dems were saying about him. They destroyed his economy and made him seem like he had no empathy for people dying from the virus. Some actually accused him of killing people. They ridiculed him for even suggesting there might be therapies that would work instead of a vaccine. Lockdowns, censorship and mail-in ballots worked and we ended up with the demented Potato President.

Juliann's avatar

Absolutely. Planned and executed.

BetsyR's avatar

Same. He was sailing back into office and they hated him. I always wondered why that angle wasn’t discussed more here and other “reality” sources.

Seemsastho's avatar

"...the demented Potato President" and whoever was actually making the decisions behind him, unauthorized and unelected.

Carol Anne's avatar

IMO: Obama and Susan Rice

Louise C's avatar

From what they were doing with USAID it sounds like 20 and 30 somethings.

Mac's avatar

Actually hindsight being 20/20 President Trump losing in 20' and coming back to WIN in 24' was the best thing that could have happened for America as "we & he" now know who our enemies truly are.

MAGA !

Louise C's avatar

Americans had to see how bad the JB Administration was to appreciate Trump.

Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH's avatar

Heck, even America's CIA now admits that the origins of Covid came from the lab:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-covid-likely-originated-lab-low-confidence-assessment/

Fauci may have gotten a pardon...but Francis Collins didn't get a pardon...and I hope that they go after him and Peter Daszak. Both are very worthy of some prison time.

M Lang's avatar

I wonder what exactly Fauci got a pardon from? Fauci is the one who authorized the funding to the Health Alliance group who funded the Wuhan for Gain of Function research. That was long before COVID.

Bruce's avatar

Fauci masterminded the whole entire thing, including developing the vaccine years in advance of the pandemic and then starting the pandemic in order to create a demand for his vaccine. Incredibly evil. But considering how much money was made off it, I have to admit it was brilliant. This is easily the greatest scam in world history.

Brogan12's avatar

It was the single greatest CON and CRIME against humanity in the history of TIME hands down all things considered. The most perfectly executed con and crime too since not ONE person on the entire PLANET has remotely been held accountable. Not ONE!

M Lang's avatar

And they got rid of Trump....a double hitter for the Fauci crowd.

I've Got A Special Purpose's avatar

Fauci was telling people don't worry, it's safe to go on vacation, that masks were useless. Until Deborah Birx showed up from DoD, then he did a 180.

Fauci was a sock puppet.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Deborah Birx has been making the rounds on a few shows trying to backpedal her way out of this and distance herself. Robert Redfield did this a while back as well. Rats from the sinking ship. They weren’t pardoned.

Brogan12's avatar

And the same pattern played out with the bird flu. The injections (taxpayer funded) are locked and loaded and ready to be injected to every chicken, cattle or animals they see fit as well as STUPID humans like say Howard Stern.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Fortunately RFK, Jr has halted that and Brooke Rollins as the USDA seems to be doing a good job so far…

Brogan12's avatar

I did read the article on the Epoch Times site last eve, but didn't he simply suggest and not halt at this point?

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

I’m not sure. I was under the impression that he halted it but I could be mistaken. Possibly wishful thinking on my part…

Dave's avatar

Best thing to do with avian flu is to let it run its course and then breed the shit out of the surviving birds...

Brogan12's avatar

That makes too much sense Dave and why it was not the path the corrupt took. It messes UP the ENDGAME agenda, which is and always has been INJECTIONS $$$

Seemsastho's avatar

I'm inclined to think you are correct and it is disgusting (What you are correct about, not that you are correct!)

Bruce's avatar

Prison time?? For conspiracy to commit global mass murder?

Ilene Heller's avatar

I've said it before & I'll say it again: I'll only be satisfied when I see all the perpetrators (Fauci, Cuomo, DiBlasio, Gottlieb, Daszak, Birx, etc. - for starters) hanging from cranes in Times Square.

Mark G. Meyers's avatar

I think there is a way to compile this information more compellingly. When moving to parliamentary rule, 2/3 support for claims of govt injustice could be acquired. This could happen democratically, outside of the govt., using the method most people trust.

https://markgmeyers.substack.com/p/now-and-for-the-future Cheers.

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

Around this day in 2020 I was getting my haircut - for an event that would not take place until 2023! My hairdresser asked if I thought the virus leaked from a lab. I asked, "You mean a novel bat virus emerged right outside the door of the lab where they work on novel bat viruses, and you think there's a chance it DIDN'T come from that lab?" I told him I would bet every cent I had that it was a lab leak. Alas, there was no one to actually take that bet or I could buy myself a Senate seat.

As a depressing side note, my hairdresser, who did agree with me, lost his entire business when he couldn't make it through the third round of lockdowns. He and his wife moved back in with his parents in Montana. Everything he had worked his entire adult life to build was stolen from him by the tyrants running California. I don't want to hear any plaintive cries of, "Why don't they trust us anymore?"

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Sorry to hear that. My hairdresser barely kept afloat by seeing clients through the back door of her salon, and making house calls. I went to her regularly during this time since I live in a crazy fearful blue state that was in a state of emergency for over three years.

My sister’s nail and waxing provider made house calls and we would line up to give her business and get our services done.

Had to be resourceful-

Carol Anne's avatar

Too funny. I’m happy to hear there were a lot of back door businesses. I was going to a small gym, and the frustrated owner could not afford to lock down. His nurse wife was forced to work in a docs office, and he had 2 boys. No school - no sitter. So he shut off the lights, turned down the music and opened his business to select members through the back door. He was our personal trainer, and we kept him busy with additional training packages, all cash. He thanks us to this day.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

I love to hear stories like that! Had to get creative during those times, and I commend the courage, common sense, and business acumen demonstrated by these small business owners. Never again-

Deb's avatar

I had a very similar experience. My hairdressers survived , barely

Juliann's avatar

But WalMart was essential. They even roped off the jewelry counter!

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

My local bookstore was shuttered, but the Target across the street could sell books because "Science!"

Charles Swannell's avatar

Not sure how you manage, but you make me laugh and cause my blood to boil, all in one little report. (Boiling blood not, as far as I know, connected to COVID) Thanks. Keep up the excellent work!

Brick's avatar

sounds like you might have long covid.

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

Covid has given Alex a case of Long Sarcasm. May he never recover.

Free in Florida's avatar

Great piece, Alex, and thanks for the humor also. This is incredibly important. History took a dark turn because people who knew this kept it quiet.

Just think - if it had been known by everyone right away that Fauci had sponsored gain of function research at the Wuhan Lab, he certainly wouldn’t have been the face of covid. And another piece I read indicated that Birx was installed by one of the intel groups. Without these two but with someone like Jay Bhattacharya, think of the difference in how all of this might have played out. We absolutely need to get to the bottom of this.

Never let a crisis go to waste, indeed. Still furious.

SeaElleAre's avatar

I am one of the extremists that doesn't even believe there is such a thing as covid that was deadly. When you run PCR tests at the levels they did and put cause of death as "covid" for everything including car accidents, you self manufacture a "pandemic". They reclassified flu as covid that year, created a "plandemic" shut the world down, ushered in technology very quickly (good for tech co's) and kept Donald Trump out of office. Mission accomplished. Case closed.

Brogan12's avatar

Mullis is still rolling in his grave on the FRAUD used with the PCR. The same corrupt people who used it have been "allowed" to use it again with all the 175 MILLION chicken's KILLED off. The PCR and the "asymptomatic spreader" CON used early on in PLANdemic narrative were so telling for sure

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

That was all to get the chicken farmers screaming for their chickens to be vaccinated in lieu of being "culled."

The entire chicken murder enterprise was to create a market for another Vax so the $$$ can keep happening.

Brogan12's avatar

Yes...just as PLANdemic 1.0 was in 2020 with humans. Create the NEED. The wuh-flu was made for the injections and not the other way around.

SeaElleAre's avatar

I like how they invent a cure and then create a problem. There’s always a vaccine so there’s always going to be a problem.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

It wouldn't have mattered if there was a virus.

They could've accomplished the same thing without one

SeaElleAre's avatar

I fought so incredibly hard against it. I saw right away what was going on. They also did this: for the elderly that got the "virus" they made sure to give them the care that would bring on death: ventilator, remdesivir, send back to nursing home etc. and blocked the therapies that worked: HCQ, Ivermectin, Zinc, Vit D.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yeah I did too. So did my wife.

She had more balls than 99.9% of men.

I will never look at my fellow-citizens the same again. Totally disillusioned with them.

SF Bay Area's avatar

That’s absolutely right. It’s probably why they used the lab leak theory to stoke confusion and fear.

Brogan12's avatar

According to Peter McCullough and Judy Mikovits this was in fact LAB created and would make it a bioweapon (BW) in essence. The SPIKE protein is within both the BW and the injections and we all know how those injected are now just factories continually producing SPIKE. Constant threat to a person's long term immunity...VAIDS

SeaElleAre's avatar

I believe that they did exactly this.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

It was always a dry run to see how well they could control the population.

The first proof of concept exercise validated wholesale.

SeaElleAre's avatar

I learned how dumb and gullible most people are through that exercise. And I learned how the Nazis got away with what they did. I could never understand the holocaust, now I do. Too many sheep to push out the screams of the fighters.

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

I don't know one, single person who even got really sick, let alone died. Yet the bulk of my acquaintance believe they heroically survived the Spanish Flu of 1918 through their own virtue.

They will cling to that until the day they do shuffle off.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Me either. And not bragging but I have a huge sphere because my business has operated for 25 years. I have 680 employees and 4,000 clients.

Not one person, out of all of them, died or even went to the hospital.

The worst case I heard of was my wife. She lost her taste for 10 days with the delta strain.

Hell my 96 year old grandmother literally walked it off over a week.

Carol Anne's avatar

Wow, Ryan you have quite the business. We were building a new house in the midst of this shit-show, and at times found it difficult for timely deliveries or supplies. Only one encounter of a cancer patient falling victim to covid. But I must say, the construction workers who lost their jobs were more than willing to show up on our build site and help out. One dude brought his teenage son who learned some valuable skills.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Do you love your new house?!

Anne Johnson's avatar

My BIL, a pulmonologist, saw very sick people. The Athletic Director at the local high school died. For most, CoVid was a non-thing--but for some, it was deadly. Pretending otherwise is silly.

Don'tTakeTheSoma's avatar

I'm not pretending otherwise, and I'm not trying to be flip. I'm offering my experience. There will always be people who are sicker than others and who succumb to whatever is going around. It's sad, but it's part of life.

I was very grateful that my grandparents told me a lot about living through the 1918 epidemic. People who were well in the morning were dead by the evening. I've been expecting something like this to come back around my whole life. I watched very carefully, and that was nothing like what I saw or experienced with Covid. So why do so many people think this was the reality? People that delusional are dangerous. They were talking about putting us in quarantine camps for God's sake. Talk about pretending!

Carol Anne's avatar

I don’t know anyone who got really sick. I was in bed on Easter Sunday for 1/2 the day, but managed to get up for a great dinner and some chocolate. My 95 year old mom tested positive, never had a sniffle and was madder than a wet hen when she was not allowed out of her room at the nursing home. The rest of my Covidiot friends/family are still virtue signaling. Some continue to get the boosters. FFS.

BeachGirlSally's avatar

I thoroughly enjoyed every instance of snark in your post, and I mean that in the best way. Spot on, and if we don't make light of what happened just a tiny little bit, how can we survive this infuriating insanity?

Cason Heard's avatar

Now it is clear why Biden had to provide Dr Fauci a pardon from crimes committed.

BD's avatar

We’ll see if that pardon holds up.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yes.

All of these asinine policies were to demoralize us.

A demoralized public is easy to control because it leads to apathy.

They didn't calculate that a few of us would assert our will instead of giving into apathy

Brian's avatar

Spectacular writing, Alex. Cathartic to read. Thanks.

Stephanie Loomis's avatar

Lab leak is the only thing that ever made sense

Dark Thomas's avatar

my college roommate who has a PhD in microbiology and worked with pathogens for the DOD was convinced it came from bats with unseasonal migration patterns caused by climate change because he's retarded. true story.

Brogan12's avatar

Just a LAB leak...why not an intentional leak?

Brick's avatar

This article is overflowing with sarcasm, satire, and snark.

Thank you Berenson.

Cassie Mock's avatar

I’m still angry about all of it ! Thank you for reporting the truth !