Covid Censorship

Industrial-strength global suppression.

There’s an ever-growing cohort of increasingly desperate Covid long-haulers, many affected for over two years, having difficult legal conversations about medical early retirement and independence payment support. They need answers, treatments – and to know that we take the situation sufficiently seriously to stop creating more cases. Where’s the herd immunity? Danny Altmann, Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London.

Our media and governments sustain the official Covid narrative with clever timing, artful framing, diligent suppression, barefaced omission, ingenious manipulation, and flat out lies. It’s propaganda on a global scale but one must wonder, cui bono? Certainly not ordinary Americans. We spent more on vaccinating ourselves than everyone, and are benefiting least of anyone. 

Ignoring the alternative hypothesis

Though, as we shall see, Covid-19 probably reached China after Europe and the US, our media established the narrative, “It originated in China,” bare hours after China announced its discovery but, says Yale’s Jeffrey Sachs, ‘scientific’ studies supporting the official view, that Covid came from animals in a Wuhan market, were faked. “The funny thing is those scientists who are saying that now said the same thing on February 4, 2020, before they had done any research. And they published the same statement in March 2020, before they had any facts at all. So they’re creating a narrative. And they’re denying the alternative hypothesis without looking closely at it”. 

Framing

After the narrative stigmatized China (‘Wuhan virus’), it promoted high-tech American vaccines as a panacea, but hostility to learning about the virus baffled the medical community. In January, 2020, two weeks after the WHO’s first Covid warning, a UW professor of  infectious diseases asked permission to use ongoing flu testing to monitor for the virus. Federal officials refused, repeatedly and, when she persisted, issued a cease-and-desist order. When fifty-seven personnel arrived at a Nebraska military base from Wuhan, local infectious disease specialist Dr. James Lawler asked to test them for Covid. The CDC refused and continues doing so in 2022. When The Lancet’s Covid Commission enquired about the CDC’s research program on SARS-like viruses, the NIH refused to discuss it or release information, and continues to block a WHO inspection like China’s.

Suppression

When scientists, including some from the NIH, publish results at odds with the official narrative, the media simply ignore them. Brazilian virologists found Covid antibodies from November 2019, Spanish virologists found them from March 2019, the WHO in Milan in November 2019, and Italians even found one in September, 2019. France found an indigenous outbreak in 2019, and military athlete Elodie Clouvel and her boyfriend caught Covid at the Wuhan military games. Dozens of Virginians and Marylanders died from a still-unexplained respiratory outbreak with Covid symptoms. After the Mayo Clinic ruled out vaping as a cause of death in the EVALI ‘vaping’ epidemic, media dropped the story, though all the deceased had Covid symptoms. Belleville, NJ, Mayor Michael Melham was seropositive in November, 2019, and so were thousands of others, according to their testimonies. 

There’s no shortage of smoking guns. 

When twenty-seven CDC scientists analyzed archived Red Cross blood taken back in December, 2019, they found 1% - 4% of Americans Covid seropositive, which qualifies it as an endemic infection. The CDC certified the world's first Covid death because it occurred in America, not China. And the WHO abandoned its search for Patient X, always the first step in tracing virus’ origins, when the US refused to permit an inspection.

Omission 

Herd immunity has been the West’s default policy since the Plague of Justinian, though whether it is applicable to Covid remains an open question. 

Historically, when plagues arrived, nobles called in the priests then retreated to their hunting lodges until herd immunity was established. Nothing has changed, says former UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn, “I distinctly remember going to a [February, 2020] meeting at the Cabinet Office, where we got a lecture about herd immunity. It was absurd that actually you would build up herd immunity by allowing people to die. So, while the government was going into eugenic formulas, they were not making adequate preparations”. The West’s default policy has remained benign neglect, especially after Swine Flu vaccinations failed disastrously. 

Since they had helped write it, both American and Chinese public health officials advocated following the WHO’s pandemic playbook for dealing with Covid. Both governments made good faith efforts to do so but, in the US, mixed messages, political squabbling, incompetence, and a dearth of useful information in the media eroded public trust. Then, silently, smoothly, even as deaths rose again, the narrative became ‘Covid is ‘over’. With zero discussion, ‘we’ have accepted the fact that 100,000 annual, excess Covid deaths is OK, while China’s approach is ignored or vilified. Industrial-grade, heavy-duty, global censorship.

The ‘vaccine’ narrative

From beginning to now, the narrative has stayed laser-focused on vaccination, ignoring its serious side effects, that it doesn’t stop infection or transmission, has to be taken before infection, and is efficacious so briefly that the CDC no longer regards it as significant: “COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur, though they are generally mild, and persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection”. 

Today, oblivious to the CDC’s defeat in its guerilla war with Covid, the narrative promotes a pharmacopeia of vaccinations–despite their obvious lack of efficacy–without investigating better ways to contain the virus. Front-line clinicians are still ignored, serious policy discussions are still absent, alternatives left unexplored. 

Innocent Explanation?

Doubtless there are compelling reasons for Western governments and media to so obviously collude and so vigorously and persistently shape and censor the Covid narrative but, as Jeffrey Sachs asks, why deny the alternative hypothesis without even examining it? Again, cui bono?

Meanwhile, we are participating in the largest human experiment ever, entirely without reliable information. The outcome of this experiment will not only determine how nations respond to epidemics in future, but even alter nations’ standing in the world.

Godfree wrote Why China Leads the World: Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom, and publishes the newsletter, Here Comes China.