"They are not the Died Suddenly fantasy of young people collapsing en masse."
NO ONE is saying young people are dying "en masse". We ARE saying that young (and usually otherwise healthy) people seem to be dying more frequently than we've seen reported in the past. That they're dying disproportionately, but not necessarily "en masse".
This is akin to your summary dismissal of 2020 vote fraud on the grounds that there's no evidence of "widespread" vote fraud. But given the narrow margins of victory in just FOUR swing states that determined the outcome, it didn't NEED to be "widespread" in order for it to work. It only needed to be "targeted". Which it WAS. But you refuse to look there.
You do good work, Alex, but your penchant for using straw men to summarily dismiss counterarguments you don't like but can't rebut persuasively does not do your credibility any favors.
What will it take? I’m unvaxxed and never got Covid. My brother, who is three years older (61), and fully vaxxed and boosted, has bought into the gaslighting “thankfully we got vaccinated, because the Covid we had would have been worse if we didn’t.” He’s had Covid once and his wife has had it twice, both since getting vaxxed. He had an aortic aneurysm in September and had open heart surgery to repair it. During the procedure, the surgeon noted that his blood was very thin and seemed oily. They gad to lower his body temp down to continue the surgery. The physician couldn’t explain it.
I know how to explain it, but there’s no getting through to them. No facts suffice. Belief is enough for them, their own circumstances be damned.
I've sadly come to the conclusion that all those in public health, politics, media, and the pharm industry who unequivocally embraced The Narrative will never reverse course. To do so would make them look stupid (at best) or criminal (at worst.) They will always have an answer for the failures of the official covid response: Vaccines have failed? Too many people are unvaxxed or are skipping the recommended boosters. Masks didn't work? Not enough people were wearing them. Lockdowns didn't work? We didn't lock down hard enough. It will only end when the majority quit listening.
You have done an admirable job researching this, Alex. And you are putting yourself in danger by speaking on it publicly. I respect your “truth usually falls somewhere in the middle” pragmatism, but the more ink spilled on this topic, the more I feel that you are projecting. This does not fall in the middle. This is a huge conspiracy. There is no common sense, no following data, and there will be no admission of wrongdoing. To do so would be to loosen their grip. MRNA technology has been waiting in the wings to be introduced on a mass scale. Too many industries stand to profit. Surveillance has been increasing since the Patriot Act. Too many billionaire eugenicists and NGOs have been telegraphing their plans for a digital ID surveillance state. There is a sovereign debt crisis all over the world, and nations’ economies will start collapsing soon. This is all part of a plan to usher in new tech, new digital programmable currency (CBDC), and new shots to keep compliance and surveillance intact. It is not about health. It is about compliance. Maybe your reach could be used to help bring awareness to the next part of the battle: fighting CBDCs. We must not adopt them. All freedom and liberty will be lost if we do.
Just have to keep on keeping on and practice "Irish Democracy." As political scientist James C. Scott put it:
"More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent dogged resistance, withdrawal and truculence of millions of ordinary people than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs."
I feel like continuing to discredit "both sides" is hard to do when one side is seeing elevated excess deaths in the working-age demographic for quite some time. I've followed Ed Dowd for quite a while and regardless of how I feel about him, the numbers are undeniable. Do I think Died Suddenly was hyperbolic at times? Yes, but the overall mortality increase and the vaccine side effects we are not allowed to discuss are shocking.
Thanks for all your reporting and continuing the conversation. I just think some humility would be helpful for you.
What I can't fathom is why Alex would contend that "died suddenly" is a wild conspiracy theory, when he himself has pointed this phenomenon out in the past. The death rate among people age 18-49 has increased by a LOT in the heavily vaccinated countries for which data is available. The fact that the baseline death rate is so low to begin with - these are not people who normally die - makes it seem less significant. But that doesn't mean that it IS less significant.
Yep, just gotta keep beating the drum. Minds are changed slowly, if at all. This is the exact kind of article that I subscribe for. Rational, accurate, and counter to mainstream b.s.
I’ve had 8 Covid shots already. If it wasn’t for these safe and effective miracle vaccines, the three heart attacks, two strokes, myocarditis, and blood clots I’ve happily experienced could have been much work. Thanks Pfizer!
The process to call out the experimental gene therapy injury & failure deniers began today in Florida. As Florida's Surgeon General produces overwhelming, science based evidence on the failure of the vaccine, scientists will have two choices: admit you simply a shill for big pharma and have zero credibility or come back to reality. It's amazing what a little truth can do to the largest bubble of lies.
A third of the people remain in some sort of trance. They are unable to see clearly. It's a intolerable for them to break away from the vaccination narrative. Madness.
"[...]High-income countries in the Pacific Rim like Australia and Japan (as well as Canada, to a lesser extent) also avoided deaths by locking down early and hard. "
Where is the evidence for this affirmation? This is what gets me, Alex. You criticize the bureaucracy for its lies and coercion but then repeat demonstrably false propaganda. Japan, for one, didn't lock down, rather they only required masking everywhere (and 99% are still masking, so pitiful). Restaurants and bars remained open (with virus-stomping curfews!!😂) throughout 2020 amd 2021. PM Abe (RIP) was lambasted by WaPo for not locking down, which I believe you've mentioned before. Sure, Oceania locked down, but still 80% of the people went to work in "essential industries", people broke lockdown, etc. There's no such thing as a hermetic lockdown that can stop the spread of an airborne virus, 99% of whose particles are under .5microns in size.
In your otherwise excellent reporting, I hope you'll refrain from spouting government propaganda like "locking down early works", lest we find ourselves in the same situation again.
The story is about government directing its preferred narrative via controlled media outlets. The media isn’t going to cover it because — you should already know this one! — government is directing its preferred narrative via controlled media outlets!
Again, you misrepresent those you dismiss.
"They are not the Died Suddenly fantasy of young people collapsing en masse."
NO ONE is saying young people are dying "en masse". We ARE saying that young (and usually otherwise healthy) people seem to be dying more frequently than we've seen reported in the past. That they're dying disproportionately, but not necessarily "en masse".
This is akin to your summary dismissal of 2020 vote fraud on the grounds that there's no evidence of "widespread" vote fraud. But given the narrow margins of victory in just FOUR swing states that determined the outcome, it didn't NEED to be "widespread" in order for it to work. It only needed to be "targeted". Which it WAS. But you refuse to look there.
You do good work, Alex, but your penchant for using straw men to summarily dismiss counterarguments you don't like but can't rebut persuasively does not do your credibility any favors.
What will it take? I’m unvaxxed and never got Covid. My brother, who is three years older (61), and fully vaxxed and boosted, has bought into the gaslighting “thankfully we got vaccinated, because the Covid we had would have been worse if we didn’t.” He’s had Covid once and his wife has had it twice, both since getting vaxxed. He had an aortic aneurysm in September and had open heart surgery to repair it. During the procedure, the surgeon noted that his blood was very thin and seemed oily. They gad to lower his body temp down to continue the surgery. The physician couldn’t explain it.
I know how to explain it, but there’s no getting through to them. No facts suffice. Belief is enough for them, their own circumstances be damned.
I've sadly come to the conclusion that all those in public health, politics, media, and the pharm industry who unequivocally embraced The Narrative will never reverse course. To do so would make them look stupid (at best) or criminal (at worst.) They will always have an answer for the failures of the official covid response: Vaccines have failed? Too many people are unvaxxed or are skipping the recommended boosters. Masks didn't work? Not enough people were wearing them. Lockdowns didn't work? We didn't lock down hard enough. It will only end when the majority quit listening.
You have done an admirable job researching this, Alex. And you are putting yourself in danger by speaking on it publicly. I respect your “truth usually falls somewhere in the middle” pragmatism, but the more ink spilled on this topic, the more I feel that you are projecting. This does not fall in the middle. This is a huge conspiracy. There is no common sense, no following data, and there will be no admission of wrongdoing. To do so would be to loosen their grip. MRNA technology has been waiting in the wings to be introduced on a mass scale. Too many industries stand to profit. Surveillance has been increasing since the Patriot Act. Too many billionaire eugenicists and NGOs have been telegraphing their plans for a digital ID surveillance state. There is a sovereign debt crisis all over the world, and nations’ economies will start collapsing soon. This is all part of a plan to usher in new tech, new digital programmable currency (CBDC), and new shots to keep compliance and surveillance intact. It is not about health. It is about compliance. Maybe your reach could be used to help bring awareness to the next part of the battle: fighting CBDCs. We must not adopt them. All freedom and liberty will be lost if we do.
Sorry about the "it" missing in the email headline - I've corrected the error.
Just have to keep on keeping on and practice "Irish Democracy." As political scientist James C. Scott put it:
"More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent dogged resistance, withdrawal and truculence of millions of ordinary people than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs."
I feel like continuing to discredit "both sides" is hard to do when one side is seeing elevated excess deaths in the working-age demographic for quite some time. I've followed Ed Dowd for quite a while and regardless of how I feel about him, the numbers are undeniable. Do I think Died Suddenly was hyperbolic at times? Yes, but the overall mortality increase and the vaccine side effects we are not allowed to discuss are shocking.
Thanks for all your reporting and continuing the conversation. I just think some humility would be helpful for you.
What I can't fathom is why Alex would contend that "died suddenly" is a wild conspiracy theory, when he himself has pointed this phenomenon out in the past. The death rate among people age 18-49 has increased by a LOT in the heavily vaccinated countries for which data is available. The fact that the baseline death rate is so low to begin with - these are not people who normally die - makes it seem less significant. But that doesn't mean that it IS less significant.
Yep, just gotta keep beating the drum. Minds are changed slowly, if at all. This is the exact kind of article that I subscribe for. Rational, accurate, and counter to mainstream b.s.
I’ve had 8 Covid shots already. If it wasn’t for these safe and effective miracle vaccines, the three heart attacks, two strokes, myocarditis, and blood clots I’ve happily experienced could have been much work. Thanks Pfizer!
The process to call out the experimental gene therapy injury & failure deniers began today in Florida. As Florida's Surgeon General produces overwhelming, science based evidence on the failure of the vaccine, scientists will have two choices: admit you simply a shill for big pharma and have zero credibility or come back to reality. It's amazing what a little truth can do to the largest bubble of lies.
A third of the people remain in some sort of trance. They are unable to see clearly. It's a intolerable for them to break away from the vaccination narrative. Madness.
Gen pop doesn't do their homework, and people have been trained to avoid complexity, don't understand nuance.
I'm not sure what would constitute incontrovertible proof to the True Believers, all I know is it's a VERY tall, very steep mountain.
Mt. Insurmountable.
"[...]High-income countries in the Pacific Rim like Australia and Japan (as well as Canada, to a lesser extent) also avoided deaths by locking down early and hard. "
Where is the evidence for this affirmation? This is what gets me, Alex. You criticize the bureaucracy for its lies and coercion but then repeat demonstrably false propaganda. Japan, for one, didn't lock down, rather they only required masking everywhere (and 99% are still masking, so pitiful). Restaurants and bars remained open (with virus-stomping curfews!!😂) throughout 2020 amd 2021. PM Abe (RIP) was lambasted by WaPo for not locking down, which I believe you've mentioned before. Sure, Oceania locked down, but still 80% of the people went to work in "essential industries", people broke lockdown, etc. There's no such thing as a hermetic lockdown that can stop the spread of an airborne virus, 99% of whose particles are under .5microns in size.
In your otherwise excellent reporting, I hope you'll refrain from spouting government propaganda like "locking down early works", lest we find ourselves in the same situation again.
Thank you Alex. Fantastic article. More of this and less stochastic terrorism screeds please.
LOL they won't because this isn't about public health, Alex.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/its-no-surprise-medias-ignoring-the
The story is about government directing its preferred narrative via controlled media outlets. The media isn’t going to cover it because — you should already know this one! — government is directing its preferred narrative via controlled media outlets!