The narratives of pandemic logic are beginning to unravel somewhat it seems. The UK has dropped its covid restrictions and the US is losing interest in reporting the stats. The logic of why they are doing this now after consistent fear mongering over the Omicron variant makes about as much sense as the rest of the actions of the powers that be, but it could be that those in power have recognized their position is no longer tenable and that backing off is necessary lest they risk losing more trust among the public.
Over the course of this Covid-19 thing pandemic logic has been a bit hard to follow, it’s backed by science so good dissent is banned. Vaccines so safe they have to try to hide the research for decades. A virus so deadly the most common symptoms are imperceptible or similar to a mild cold. And a testing gold standard with PCR tests that’s so golden its creator didn’t recommend the test be used as a diagnostic tool for illness.
The supposed value of science as a process for finding objective truth (if there is such a thing) is that it uses verifiable empirical evidence that employs causal logic linking the evidence to a hypothesis. When it does not adequately eliminate or properly weigh other variables of potential influence then a given hypothesis cannot be proven true. However pandemic logic has been regularly making logical leaps based on the speculation that if Covid-19 is found by way of a PCR test then it’s the primary culprit for symptoms or death. This is the way the narrative has been sold and it’s a stupefying oversimplification with a bias baked in that assumes Covid-19 is so dangerous that all other common threats to health can be ignored.
But the powers that be cried pandemic two years ago and there was no turning back. As soon as they hit that pandemic button they had long been fashioning since 2005, when the World Health Organization became the enforcer of International Health Regulations, they had to make the narrative stick no matter what or else possibly lose legitimacy. The implications of admitting they’re wrong when their actions have caused so much harm and done nothing but heighten social/wealth inequality across the entire planet would mean a total loss of faith in how industrial science and medicine is done, and when has power ever admitted they were wrong? Oligarchs have historically been unfalsifiable and I don’t see that changing as long as there is a heavily centralized socioeconomic hierarchy in place.
Corporations and nation states have argued aggressively that Covid-19 causes an increased health risk to human beings that previously didn’t exist. Many believe this to be true without a need to examine the logic and science around their claims, primarily because they trust the system implicitly, but what they are trusting are capitalist industries and nation states with their own agendas which have traditionally been about power acquisition using whatever leverage they can muster to make others do as they want.
This system being trusted also happens to be the cause of every major issue the world is currently facing, including wrecking biodiversity decade after decade at accelerating rates, creating wide scale poverty just so that people with exorbitant social power can have absurd luxuries, along with a predilection for warfare under false pretenses. Despite the powers that be having a long term penchant for lying and destructive behavior they unfortunately still seem to have a stranglehold on driving narrative.
It’s also a rather interesting coincidence how often the recommended treatments given by the medical industrial complex and what is the most profitable thing to do happen to align. And far be it from me to suggest that businesses might fudge on the truth to make money, for they are far too noble of enterprises to fall prey to such ghastly profiteering. And sure they may have made a few mistakes in the past like say recommending unneeded surgeries that doctors wouldn’t undergo themselves, as Christopher Ryan makes note of in his book Civilized to Death (p. 196): “Doctors and medical facilities are often responding to perverse financial incentives that reward them for performing expensive, painful procedures even when they are of no benefit to the patient.” – But why should a consistent pattern of profiteering at price gouging levels off human suffering cause people to be skeptical? That would be conspiracy right? It would suggest industrial science and the entire medical industry aren’t just accidentally charging as much as they can for things that sometimes, perhaps often even, aren’t needed in the first place, but that they are doing so with intent. Can you imagine that? A capitalist who wants to maximize profits without care of the externalities of their actions? Truly ground breaking conspiracy theory, no doubt.
Admittedly, from my conspiracy theorist perspective it does seem to be that corporations and the nation states they puppet act as financial sharks that devour all the profit and power they can tactically get their hands on while lacking basic compassion and are almost entirely bereft of wisdom. Which brings me to question, do people just not know how the world works or are they being willfully ignorant?
Again the logic of the pandemic makes no sense, they supposedly care about your health related to a virus but they don’t care if people go homeless from the implications of their restrictions trying to save you from that virus. And I’m pretty sure poverty or being homeless is a more direct threat to well being than a virus with over a 99% survival rate by their own numbers. The actions of the powers that be don’t make much sense regarding health, but makes perfect sense when looked at from the vantage point of our questionably benevolent rulers, because their actions have done wonders for them to expand their economic domination and to perpetuate a owner to slave relationship in a coercive, nearly compulsory, economic system that has been an ongoing theme in western civilization for the duration of its existence, but when it comes to their actions being done sincerely for the health of the global populace little they have done makes a bit of sense.
The Logic Defying Normalization of Misclassification
According to a publication on the National Center for Biotechnology Information website, misclassification bias is defined as such:
“Misclassification bias is a kind of sampling bias which occurs when a disease of interest is poorly defined, when there is no gold standard for diagnosis of the disease or when a disease might not be easy detectable. “
Covid-19 is the very essence of being poorly defined. Along with every other pathogen that can cause generic cold and flu symptoms but has no specific symptoms allowing for easy identification. And what is touted as a gold standard for diagnosis, the PCR test, is a rather flimsy way of linking the virus to any symptoms that according to the inventor of PCR testing himself Kary Mullis (1:33): “PCR doesn’t tell you if you’re sick, or if that thing you ended up with was going to hurt you.” And when the amplification of the tests are ramped up too high or are inconsistent from region to region as they have been, then the data they produce related to cases becomes increasingly meaningless when trying to describe the effects of a particular virus.
The problem with their logic is that nuance fucking matters. Especially when it’s unknown on a case by case basis what impact any specific pathogen is causing and what might just be an opportunistic breeder in a failing immune system. Again, science is supposed to represent an accurate view of the world, a measured contextual one, backed up with solid empirical evidence to support its claims; what it is decidedly not supposed to be doing is guessing and then crying pandemic off that guess work.
For example, when someone dies of Covid-19 who suffers from morbid obesity, they mostly ignore the multitude of studies done over decades showing the impacts of obesity and the reduced immune system response that is directly linked, and instead of obesity being cited as the underlying cause that weakened their immune system to the point it put their life in danger, the medical industrial complex will create another Covid stat out of them if a PCR test comes back positive, which then contributes to creating public health policy and ends up as a reference point in “scientific” research.
Thus again, the question upfront has to be asked before assuming the detection of Covid-19 equates to being the underlying issue, when someone is sick with a positive PCR test for Covid do they actually have a covid problem or an immune system problem where any pathogen can be a health threat? Who knows, because the bulk of the medical system in the US aren’t differentiating in the stats between someone whose immune system is decimated and someone who became sick because Covid-19 is so deadly it caused an increased threat.
Nuance is also being ignored around the notion of coinfection in public dialogue. The idea people can have multiple coinfections isn’t exactly new, but what is somewhat new is the scale which it’s being ignored. Cited here in the words of industrial science itself: “One study discovered that 94.2% of people with COVID‐19 were also coinfected with several other microorganisms, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi. 20 Important viral copathogens include the influenza A and B viruses, rhinovirus/enterovirus, parainfluenza virus, metapneumovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), dengue virus (DENV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein Barr virus (EBV), and other CoVs, among which the influenza A virus and rhinovirus/enterovirus are the most common copathogens “ This brings to question how do they know what pathogen is causing symptoms when coinfection isn’t at all uncommon.
Also, in research here in this link they looked into what common active viruses healthy people regularly have in their system, and what they found was that on average everyone is carrying 5 viruses which are linked to causing illness. Cited in the article they say: “The researchers also identified adenoviruses – responsible for pneumonia and the common cold – in the majority of samples.” and “This analysis demonstrates that there is a ‘normal viral flora’ in generally healthy, asymptomatic individuals.”
So we know that healthy people carry around viruses capable of causing respiratory problems, yet they are healthy. So when they test for Covid-19 what difference does it make if the PCR test comes back positive? Because it’s not necessarily indicative of anything, especially when the amplification cycles are high in testing.
It’s worth noting too, what if we used the same methods they have used to declare Covid-19 a health risk but did it with other common viruses as a control where they just used a PCR test to determine the presence of say a known common cold virus with the same amplification cycles that have been used for Covid testing and then attributed death the same way as well, would that make sense?
Because I doubt most would find it logical if an 80 year old with several comorbidities caught a common cold a couple weeks before their death and this becomes worthy of news which is subsequently marketed all over the media as part of the case count related to that cold and then governments create policies from this statistic. Prior to pandemic logic this would be a silly way of assessing a health threat, yet that’s what they have done with covid, where they have run with the assumption that it’s so much more dangerous that they don’t actually need to prove on a case by case basis if it’s having an effect, it’s just assumed.
Further, the manner in which death certificates are recorded is not scientifically reliable data either even though they have been heavily referenced throughout the pandemic. The entry in wikipedia under cause of death states: “A study published in Preventing Chronic Disease found that only one-third of New York City resident physicians reported believing that the present system of documentation was accurate.”
Death certificates represent a heap of data with varying levels of accuracy and effort put into determining the cause of death especially when death occurs from natural causes where an autopsy generally isn’t done. And, old age is almost never written down as a cause of death and it’s been cited that at times physicians don’t actually decide what the cause of death is, rather they are given instruction to “put something else”, this isn’t a new Covid-19 thing, this is the status quo way things worked prior to the Covid-19 event.
Closing Notes
I would like to add that I don’t discount other threads of argumentation like terrain theory, or that the virus was never properly isolated, which has been a bit of a divide among those who hold dissent. In regards to terrain theory, the notion that the environment has an impact on health and the homeostasis of the biome of all living things shouldn’t be controversial. Yet somehow industrial science has made it so even though there are innumerable studies in mainstream science that verify how environmental variables affect health. However I do not know the full extent to which terrain theory is correct either, but the point I’m trying to get to here is that establishment industrial science is illogical and contradictory all by itself without need to comprehensively define what the actual truth is.
Simply proving they are wrong is enough to disregard their ostensible cures and opens the door to find greater truth, but when trying to talk people off the ledge of intentional ignorance it usually doesn’t help to try to convince them of things that are even further removed from their worldview, even if correct. Wisdom is saying the right thing at the right time, it’s not clumsy or lacking in grace, but patient, open, and understanding. And if the bullshit train is ever going to come to a stop it will be because of loving wisdom and not out of a desire to dominate a perceived adversary in an argument, which is the way the powers that be get things done.
