The good doctor describes it as an observer rather than an active participant.
Any one of us could have written this piece and probably with more passion and detail.
Where is the self-reflection? Did he have any questions about the official narrative? Did it all tally with what he knew through his medical training? What made him change his mind eventually? What has he learned from this?
Without all that it just becomes a bland piece of writing in my opinion.
I agree. The doctor is a poor writer. Vague generalizations, distancing language, passive voice, etc… This written by someone trying to come to terms with his guilt.
It’s not over though is it? Today I read in the paper that some doctors surgeries were requiring masks because of pertussis and any other respiratory infection. Some “professionals” just won’t let go. My local surgery has persisted with masks from the beginning of Covid through to today.
I completely agree we need as many people as possible on side to admit the dreadful folly of what happened to society from 2020 and the futility of fighting a respiratory virus with draconian measures. But it beggars belief that it has taken him so long to admit the wrongdoing. What has happened is a horror story, we left the frail elderly and the physically and mentally compromised people to the monster system and it was not merciful to them. Instead of loving protection many of them were isolated, neglected, not fed properly or even given enough fluids causing anxiety, confusion and physical deterioration. The system conveniently had directives in place to terminally sedate many people under the guise of covid to relieve them of their anxiety and confusion caused,of course, by the system, a perfect feedback loop. Life was not joyful or beautiful, as he eloquently put it, for these people.
I don’t think I have read any articles on how the plandemic caused the world to so easily turn their back on socialisation, but it is a good point. The four years of mandates, pressure to be vaccinated with an unsafe and ineffective vaxx, the ever and ongoing reoccurrence of covid or as called in this article, the novel influenza like virus. I am retired, but belong to a few social clubs. Our numbers are down and continue to stay down. And yet, the socialisation part of these clubs is part of the draw for me. How do we get back to where we were pre-covid. Like all things medical, I often use the words “the tincture of time”.
Thanks for sharing Casey's thought-provoking article. Interesting how he described the bigger picture to covid closures, people were already leaving their social circles and also what that means for society.
The main point I take away from this article is that even before covid (“BC”) things in the social sphere were unravelling. I can corroborate the decline of membership to clubs and societies, certainly from a perspective as one living in the UK. In the years 15BC to 5BC I used to attend meetings of a local archaeological society, where I’m sure I reduced the average age of membership by a good few decades. Not just because elderly retirees have more time, but younger people just don’t do clubs and societies; the whole concept of sitting in a physical room next to actual people seems to be alien to younger folk. Online chat groups yes, real world no.
Which brings me to my favourite point (not my original idea but one that is not given as much emphasis as it should be), namely that without the technological substrate that had matured by 1BC aka 2019, the entire “pandemic” would not have been possible. Lockdowns of entire countries would have been impossible for more than a few days without the ability to digitally “work from home”, testing and vacc pass requirements would be too cumbersome to implement without widespread uptake of apps, in other words the entire control apparatus as it was sprung on us would not have been possible. Just 10 years earlier, in 2009, the swine flu scare could not be turned into the same scale “pandemic” because none of the above (lockdowns, testing, passes) were digitally ensconced in the wider population. Most people had never heard of “Zoom” prior to 2020 let alone used it.
So yes I agree with the doctor that the unravelling of physical society is a problem, and that too many people just went along with the restrictions. But the causes for this I see as going back 10-20 years and derive mainly from the ever increasing encroachment of digital on physical life. (And no, the irony of typing my criticism of digital addiction on a digital device is not lost on me.)
The doctor implies that the government discovered that the people wanted, nay insisted, on the lockdowns and so the government merely obliged, or rather responded to what they felt was their very own political mandate. 100% BS! This was pure government legerdemain, start to finish. Where did all that propaganda and fear mongering that preceded lockdown come from? Did the media just make it up all on their own? It was clever of the government to light everyone’s hair on fire and then claim that the deluge that followed was simply a response to the clarion cries of the masses to please put the fires out. This entire operation was very carefully pre-planned, especially the propaganda and psychological operations that could arguably be described as the central and primary feature of the entire conspiracy.
You can't have a war on a virus, but you can have one on your own population. And it will work. That is the bleak takeaway from Covid. If enough ordinary people begin to understand this, then we might have a chance to survive as a society. If not, not.
Thanks for linking my article. Just wanted to clarify that I have never been in favour of Lockdowns, though I did support voluntary measures such as the Swedish approach. Twitter has been an outlet to voice my frustration over this horrible time and I use a lot of humour and sarcasm in my Tweets such as the first one you linked.
I was one of the signatories of this letter from a group of GPs sent to Matt Hancock in October 2020. It was ignored.
My article was intentionally about the socio-political context leading into Lockdowns which is one of social atomisation and a crisis of political authority, and I was asked to write it by a friend. Anyway thanks to all that read it.
This really stuck with me: "aggressive public health advisors and activists waiting in the wings to make a name for themselves"
It was fascinating to see literally out of nowhere all these sudden experts on viruses, masks, vaccines, etc appear on Social Media, all fighting for attention, all with a similar "schtick":
- They present themselves as doctors yet almost all only have PhDs ("Doctors without Patients" as Brian Deer describes Wakefield in his takedowns)
- They often have zero background in infectious disease, especially ILI. YLE for example spent her career writing about domestic violence, Andrea Love researches Lyme disease, Jennifer Kasten has a certification in Infectious Disease from 2005 but spend her career in pediatric pathology, Emily Smith I can't find any research papers from altogether, "Dear Pandemic" seems a collection of inconsequential PhDs, etc - THIS WOULD BE FINE if they weren't so ridiculously confident from the start on their unverified claims. The complete lack of humility, unwillingness to consider alternative hypotheses, the shunning of skepticism and disinterestedness... completely antithetical to science.
- They all tried to quickly "cash in" on a pandemic. Subscription content and Patreons almost immediately set up
- They aren't ashamed to "cos play" as scientists - See Jess Steier of Unbiased Science Podcast posing in a lab coat holding beakers. Come on, you have a Doctorate Public Health and run a fledgling data company. You're between Dr Pepper and Chiropractor in the "hierarchy of doctors".
- They all bought into the hysteria and spread it, never apologizing for mistakes, never revisiting their claims. Too caught up in keeping their audience subscribed.
It is of course obvious, if there was Twitter and Facebook in 2003, they would have declared SARS 03 the apocalypse.
Would like to get list of all of them, when they launched their "Brand" here's a few off top of my head:
"There was a nasty bug. The media made it sound deadly. We doctors thought it probably wasn't but - hey, we just follow orders. The public were pretty keen to panic. The politicians thought that would be good for expanding their power, wealth and control. It was a tough few years. But, you know, love will find a way. We're all in it together. People who need people are the luckiest people in the World."
(And other rather smug platitudes from a guy who wants you to know that he meant well)
No, you create the virus and then release it as an injection in a vaccine, like the WHO did with Moderna's one back in 2019: DARPA has openly bragged on Twitter that Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology, and by extension Moderna’s Covid vaccine, was a product of their ADEPT program. Moderna wins Award for Deadly Covid Vaccine it was able to create prior to 2019 because “Murderna” is responsible for creating the Covid-19 Virus in a BioLab… #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG - and I can prove it - and force as many people as possible into having it, by getting all 124 members of WHO's countries to enforce Disinformation Laws from May 2020 to June 2023, removing anything anti vaccines from Social Media and pushing vaccines are safe to create the last Pandemic, but now that's over, better prepare for the next one, my last post on my substack - you can buy your latest JN.1/Omicron (MALS verified) HEK293 virus from Acrobiosystems for 50ug Trimer $450 or 100ug $400 just follow the link provided
The doctor seems to have forgotten to mention the later fall-out from the ending of the lockdowns - namely the get-out clause of the "safe and effective" jabs, which have gone on to cause as much if not more harm than the virus itself and the restrictions on social interaction.
As Myra points out, he seems to be an observer, rather than a participant, though presumably if in general practice, he was seeing patients either in person or online at the time.
The whole episode, in my view, was an exercise in crowd control, with the aim of persuading the people to take mass medication.
I actually found this a difficult read.
The good doctor describes it as an observer rather than an active participant.
Any one of us could have written this piece and probably with more passion and detail.
Where is the self-reflection? Did he have any questions about the official narrative? Did it all tally with what he knew through his medical training? What made him change his mind eventually? What has he learned from this?
Without all that it just becomes a bland piece of writing in my opinion.
I rather agree.
I agree. The doctor is a poor writer. Vague generalizations, distancing language, passive voice, etc… This written by someone trying to come to terms with his guilt.
I think it is far more simple than this article.
People were played, conned, and made complete fools of themselves and now millions are dead.
Period
“…we will be in a far better place if anything like this happens again…”
It’s happening now (fake bird flu). And it, and other psyops, will keep on happening as long as they work.
It’s not over though is it? Today I read in the paper that some doctors surgeries were requiring masks because of pertussis and any other respiratory infection. Some “professionals” just won’t let go. My local surgery has persisted with masks from the beginning of Covid through to today.
I completely agree we need as many people as possible on side to admit the dreadful folly of what happened to society from 2020 and the futility of fighting a respiratory virus with draconian measures. But it beggars belief that it has taken him so long to admit the wrongdoing. What has happened is a horror story, we left the frail elderly and the physically and mentally compromised people to the monster system and it was not merciful to them. Instead of loving protection many of them were isolated, neglected, not fed properly or even given enough fluids causing anxiety, confusion and physical deterioration. The system conveniently had directives in place to terminally sedate many people under the guise of covid to relieve them of their anxiety and confusion caused,of course, by the system, a perfect feedback loop. Life was not joyful or beautiful, as he eloquently put it, for these people.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
I don’t think I have read any articles on how the plandemic caused the world to so easily turn their back on socialisation, but it is a good point. The four years of mandates, pressure to be vaccinated with an unsafe and ineffective vaxx, the ever and ongoing reoccurrence of covid or as called in this article, the novel influenza like virus. I am retired, but belong to a few social clubs. Our numbers are down and continue to stay down. And yet, the socialisation part of these clubs is part of the draw for me. How do we get back to where we were pre-covid. Like all things medical, I often use the words “the tincture of time”.
Life is one way. Experience is one way. Pre-covid times died and will never return.
Thanks for sharing Casey's thought-provoking article. Interesting how he described the bigger picture to covid closures, people were already leaving their social circles and also what that means for society.
The main point I take away from this article is that even before covid (“BC”) things in the social sphere were unravelling. I can corroborate the decline of membership to clubs and societies, certainly from a perspective as one living in the UK. In the years 15BC to 5BC I used to attend meetings of a local archaeological society, where I’m sure I reduced the average age of membership by a good few decades. Not just because elderly retirees have more time, but younger people just don’t do clubs and societies; the whole concept of sitting in a physical room next to actual people seems to be alien to younger folk. Online chat groups yes, real world no.
Which brings me to my favourite point (not my original idea but one that is not given as much emphasis as it should be), namely that without the technological substrate that had matured by 1BC aka 2019, the entire “pandemic” would not have been possible. Lockdowns of entire countries would have been impossible for more than a few days without the ability to digitally “work from home”, testing and vacc pass requirements would be too cumbersome to implement without widespread uptake of apps, in other words the entire control apparatus as it was sprung on us would not have been possible. Just 10 years earlier, in 2009, the swine flu scare could not be turned into the same scale “pandemic” because none of the above (lockdowns, testing, passes) were digitally ensconced in the wider population. Most people had never heard of “Zoom” prior to 2020 let alone used it.
So yes I agree with the doctor that the unravelling of physical society is a problem, and that too many people just went along with the restrictions. But the causes for this I see as going back 10-20 years and derive mainly from the ever increasing encroachment of digital on physical life. (And no, the irony of typing my criticism of digital addiction on a digital device is not lost on me.)
“without the technological substrate that had matured by 1BC aka 2019, the entire “pandemic” would not have been possible.”
100% correct. I wouldn’t be surprised if social media were invented to do just that.
The doctor implies that the government discovered that the people wanted, nay insisted, on the lockdowns and so the government merely obliged, or rather responded to what they felt was their very own political mandate. 100% BS! This was pure government legerdemain, start to finish. Where did all that propaganda and fear mongering that preceded lockdown come from? Did the media just make it up all on their own? It was clever of the government to light everyone’s hair on fire and then claim that the deluge that followed was simply a response to the clarion cries of the masses to please put the fires out. This entire operation was very carefully pre-planned, especially the propaganda and psychological operations that could arguably be described as the central and primary feature of the entire conspiracy.
You can't have a war on a virus, but you can have one on your own population. And it will work. That is the bleak takeaway from Covid. If enough ordinary people begin to understand this, then we might have a chance to survive as a society. If not, not.
Thanks for linking my article. Just wanted to clarify that I have never been in favour of Lockdowns, though I did support voluntary measures such as the Swedish approach. Twitter has been an outlet to voice my frustration over this horrible time and I use a lot of humour and sarcasm in my Tweets such as the first one you linked.
I was one of the signatories of this letter from a group of GPs sent to Matt Hancock in October 2020. It was ignored.
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/resource/coronavirus/in-full-gp-letter-warns-hancock-against-new-covid-lockdown/
My article was intentionally about the socio-political context leading into Lockdowns which is one of social atomisation and a crisis of political authority, and I was asked to write it by a friend. Anyway thanks to all that read it.
Michael Casey
This really stuck with me: "aggressive public health advisors and activists waiting in the wings to make a name for themselves"
It was fascinating to see literally out of nowhere all these sudden experts on viruses, masks, vaccines, etc appear on Social Media, all fighting for attention, all with a similar "schtick":
- They present themselves as doctors yet almost all only have PhDs ("Doctors without Patients" as Brian Deer describes Wakefield in his takedowns)
- They often have zero background in infectious disease, especially ILI. YLE for example spent her career writing about domestic violence, Andrea Love researches Lyme disease, Jennifer Kasten has a certification in Infectious Disease from 2005 but spend her career in pediatric pathology, Emily Smith I can't find any research papers from altogether, "Dear Pandemic" seems a collection of inconsequential PhDs, etc - THIS WOULD BE FINE if they weren't so ridiculously confident from the start on their unverified claims. The complete lack of humility, unwillingness to consider alternative hypotheses, the shunning of skepticism and disinterestedness... completely antithetical to science.
- They all tried to quickly "cash in" on a pandemic. Subscription content and Patreons almost immediately set up
- They aren't ashamed to "cos play" as scientists - See Jess Steier of Unbiased Science Podcast posing in a lab coat holding beakers. Come on, you have a Doctorate Public Health and run a fledgling data company. You're between Dr Pepper and Chiropractor in the "hierarchy of doctors".
- They all bought into the hysteria and spread it, never apologizing for mistakes, never revisiting their claims. Too caught up in keeping their audience subscribed.
It is of course obvious, if there was Twitter and Facebook in 2003, they would have declared SARS 03 the apocalypse.
Would like to get list of all of them, when they launched their "Brand" here's a few off top of my head:
________________
Dr Jennifer Kasten 3/22/2020
https://www.facebook.com/jenniferkastenmd/about_profile_transparency
"Dr" Katelyn Jetelina (Your Local Epidemiologist) - 3/20/2020
https://www.facebook.com/jenniferkastenmd/about_profile_transparency
Unbiased Science Podcast ("Drs" Andrea Love and Jess Steier - 7/10/2020
https://www.facebook.com/unbiasedscipod/about_profile_transparency
Dear Pandemic (rebranded to "Those Nerdy Girls") - 3/13/2020
https://www.facebook.com/thosenerdygirls/about_profile_transparency
"Dr" Emily Smith (Your Friendly Neighborhood Epidemiologist) _ 3/13/2020
https://www.facebook.com/friendlyneighborepidemiologist/about_profile_transparency
"There was a nasty bug. The media made it sound deadly. We doctors thought it probably wasn't but - hey, we just follow orders. The public were pretty keen to panic. The politicians thought that would be good for expanding their power, wealth and control. It was a tough few years. But, you know, love will find a way. We're all in it together. People who need people are the luckiest people in the World."
(And other rather smug platitudes from a guy who wants you to know that he meant well)
No, you create the virus and then release it as an injection in a vaccine, like the WHO did with Moderna's one back in 2019: DARPA has openly bragged on Twitter that Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology, and by extension Moderna’s Covid vaccine, was a product of their ADEPT program. Moderna wins Award for Deadly Covid Vaccine it was able to create prior to 2019 because “Murderna” is responsible for creating the Covid-19 Virus in a BioLab… #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG - and I can prove it - and force as many people as possible into having it, by getting all 124 members of WHO's countries to enforce Disinformation Laws from May 2020 to June 2023, removing anything anti vaccines from Social Media and pushing vaccines are safe to create the last Pandemic, but now that's over, better prepare for the next one, my last post on my substack - you can buy your latest JN.1/Omicron (MALS verified) HEK293 virus from Acrobiosystems for 50ug Trimer $450 or 100ug $400 just follow the link provided
The doctor seems to have forgotten to mention the later fall-out from the ending of the lockdowns - namely the get-out clause of the "safe and effective" jabs, which have gone on to cause as much if not more harm than the virus itself and the restrictions on social interaction.
As Myra points out, he seems to be an observer, rather than a participant, though presumably if in general practice, he was seeing patients either in person or online at the time.
The whole episode, in my view, was an exercise in crowd control, with the aim of persuading the people to take mass medication.