Thanks for pointing this out, Mathew! Anyone calling Omicron a vaccine-escape variant either hasn't done their research or is otherwise ignorant/confused/malicious. Here's a post I made on this topic in December 2021 to Steve Kirsch's substack:
Great comment! I was going to say something very similar. You already said it. I'll add a few comments:
A) Self spreading vaccines have been discussed quietly for a long time. They were always off-limits to "serious people" because they gratuitously violate the Nuremberg Code. Due to extensive government violations of that same code it's now moot. Note that self-spreading vaccines are ANATHEMA to big pharma, as there's no easy way to monetize them.
B) Omicron perfectly fits the design specifications of a self-spreading vaccine: less dangerous, spreads best in people who have taken the mRNA jab, maximally transmissible.
1. First modify it to only reproduce in throat epithelial cells, making it less dangerous. This could be done by evolutionary selection via serial passage through humanized mice, which have multiple kinds of human epithelial cells..
2. Modify it to exploit mRNA vaccination to spread better. Again, evolutionary selection via serial passage through jabbed humanized mice ought to do it.
3. Modify it to be maximally transmissible. Use every trick known to the state of the art. This may have taken some engineering beyond evolution selection via serial passage. Or not. I don't know.
4. All this will take a while. Like a year or so. Not simple & can't be rushed.
Omicron seems to fit my ideal for a self-spreading vaccine. It altered the narrative in a way that's hostile to the Great Rest crowd. Sure seems likely that it came from some white hat biohacker lab.
While I obviously don't know, my guess is that it's the operation of a small independent team acting on its own without official backing. As in, I guess that INDIVIDUALS from some lab that already does biowarfare technology teamed up in secret and conducted an "independent project" on the sly. We know these labs both operate in secrecy and have poor oversight. Knowing that no good deed goes unpunished, I guess those who created Omicron have already been identified and eliminated as traitors to both pharma companies and the Great Reset crowd. I hope they died well, knowing that did a great service to humanity.
I guess the "four foreign diplomats" thing s a red herring.
If SARs-COV-2 is a bioweapon (alone it sucks as one, but combined with propaganda it’s very effective), no one would build it, without concurrently building the antidote. Otherwise it ceases to become a weapon.
One reason, I’m skeptical of the immunocomp patient theory of omicron emergence is that immunocomp patients aren’t isolated like lab rats and it took months for a few variants to emerge so we’d need 18 months for omicron to emerge without intermediate leak. There should be intermediates if this was brewed in people (unless all those intermediates reside in an unsampled tissue like the GI, unlikely).
Labs can contain intermediates from leaking more so than hospitals with patients.
There is clear evidence of selective pressure in spike and it occurred faster than naturally possible. There is an evolutionary thumb on the scale.
Thanks for plugging the military whistleblower darkhorse episode. I'm on the one that dropped today, on reviewing it I had an opportunity to mention Brook Jackson's case when I talked about the RCT briefly, but I dropped the ball. Nevertheless, I think we covered a lot of good additional stuff. Keep up the strong work trying to make sense of everything, you're so far ahead of the curve people can't even understand it. They're still quoting the pre-glitch DMED data in some circles while the opposition has tailor made fact-checks for that story... people get irritated when you try to correct them so that our team can't get staw-manned, freaking crazy time to be alive.
I came to a similar conclusion almost immediately, and it was weirdly Berenson's "everyone stop whining about gain of function the real war crime here was my Twitter suspension" post that jolted it into me.
The conclusion I arrived at, though, was that it was a threat being slow-walked to the PUBLIC:
This time we really can kill you. Maybe we'll sell you the antidote to the poison you just drank. Now shut the fuck up, we're sending your kid to Belarus.
Oct 19, 2022·edited Oct 19, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford
Hi Mathew,
Small world, much too small. Only in the last week or so, I found out about (and started following) Housatonic through reading comments under one of Sage Hana's posts. Listening to the link you sent as I am typing this. Ooo .. just heard that word 'iatrogenocide' which I now associate with Toby Rogers' substack.
And it was through Steve Kirsch, also this week, I found that great Brett Weinstein discussion with the lawyer and two dissenting military officers.
While Brett and guests were trying to wrap their heads around some of the Kafkaesque absurdities in sacrificing military preparedness for a more-than-questionable narrative, I thought of another option ... and if I could imagine that option, I am quite certain it has long since been tossed back and forth behind closed DOD doors. The scenario is as follows:
From other sources I've seen on Rumble or Odysee, the metallic substance was thought to not be a contaminant, but rather a salient component of those treatments which still do not meet the definition of 'informed consent'. But just for the sake of argument, supposing Moderna's excuse was reliable and correct, that it was a mistake due to low quality controls in a Spanish production plant, it stands to reason that different lots have degrees of safety, if not efficacy.
2 — Brett and company brought up the huge tax-funded cost of aircraft and pilot training, and rightfully questioned the logic of lock-step mandates for an experimental treatment that does not even adhere to safety standards formerly applied to commercial pilots.
Time out for a snicker ... 25:40 .... just heard Dr. Gallo referred to as a POS ... 'Person of Science'.
3 — I see no reason to suspect the powers-that-be do not know which lots are 'safer' than others, or even better, which lots are nothing but saline solution.
4 — While 'decimating' (the original definition of the term) the ranks of high cost pilots, presenting those pilots with a false dichotomy of forfeiting bodily autonomy to potentially dangerous mRNA treatments ... or keeping their career and livelihood (if not passion or patriotism) would be a way of insuring the remaining military would be the equivalence of the 'good German' following superior orders, the Nuremberg Defense — while in fact, preserving the financial investment in hardware and training by injecting only saline solution into those who choose to relinquish their moral autonomy.
5 — Biden, and in these fragmented, polarized times, probably anyone in power, appears to be anxious to legally appropriate the military for use against civilian dissent. Such a compliant military, who would risk their own autonomy to keep a job, would be more pliable in the hands of the sociopaths in charge, and not likely to refuse blatantly immoral orders.
For those holding the reigns of power, win-win.
For the rest of us, twisting in the wind, second guessing.
Now at 50:00 into the Housatonic video.
Susan Sontag must be spinning in her grave.
p.s. ... Still watching, re-watching, and organizing comments on that recent 'Red Herring' round-table talk. Tessa Lena is among my favorite recent reads and chats.
Oct 19, 2022·edited Oct 19, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford
I've seen some pretty lurid commentary on this study via Substack articles. This article is a timely reminder and friendly warning not to get too wrapped up in the fear game, because that's 'their' game, not ours. I'm not sure this is a case of mass formation in the Resistance ranks but we do need to be careful not to slip on psychological banana skins. Thanks.
Something which most commentators seem to have missed is that this research appears to have been done on Ba.1, before the emergence of Ba.4 and Ba.5 subvariants, which may or may not be relevant, but the fact is, Ba.1 is now functionally extinct.
Oct 19, 2022·edited Oct 19, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford
I am fairly convinced we are in World war E as you call it. Or at least I am concerned enough to think we need to put risk management processes in place and stop pretending it isn't a possibility. Am I certain? No way. But am I worried and can see potential and even a strategy slowly unfolding? Yes.
Has your work office ever caught on fire? Probably not. Do you have fire extinguishers there and conduct the occasional fire drills or have a fire warden? Seems sensible to consider the worst case scenarios even if they are remote.
It is better to be the warrior in the garden than the gardener in war.
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive.” - Sun Tzu
Another concern I have, with everyone screaming about GoF out of Boston hospital, is that it provides perfect smoke for a foreign actor to actually do something.
Everyone screaming about Putin and nukes, seems to forget the soviets had a pretty impressive bioweapon capability which they were surprisingly open about, “Da, we weaponized smallpox, so what?”
Would Putin be more likely to nuke us, and risk ending all of Russia, or would it be wiser to unleash a Slavic Sneeze in downtown Boston, and sit back while half the country tears itself apart blaming the other half of America?
I think the real payload of the study is not the supposed lethality, etc. Rather, it is the normalization of this kind of dangerous tinkering. The reported results of the study are less important than understanding that the source of the research is a team of ‘respectable’ university professors, MDs, and young naive post docs, passing off reckless research under the guise of some twisted notion of ‘doing good’. Meanwhile, the DoD sits in the shadows, ready to claim the fruits of insanity.
Oct 19, 2022·edited Oct 19, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford
Mathew, thank you! Did you read the substack article from Alex Berenson? He wrote that mice infected with the original sars-cov-2 variant had a 100% fatality rate. And since the fatality rate in humans was (fortunately) much lower than 100%, he suggests that the 80% fatality rate of this new "omicron experiment" is actually not as horrible as it sounds. I did not verify his claims yet. And of course I do not support this ongoing gain of function research. It is a catastrophe and it also illegal as far as I know.. I just wanted to mention that, if Berenso is right, the 80% fatality rate does not translate like this into humans. So this is important for anxious people to know.
Lots of people being wrong about the same thing is not the same as a mass formation. Mass formation is effectively a comforting meme people will tell themselves to forgive the family and friends who mistreated them and won't acknowledge it. Maybe I hold the MFM to a different standard, but there's very little "mass" about it. People are fragmented on a variety of different lines and as far as I can tell it's a quite small pond.
If I understand your major point is that the "80% mortality" is complete bunk, and something is working to target fearporn/threats in various channels (mainstream & alt-mainstream). I'll admit I don't care if GoF is simply a hoax to milk govt funding, I still want the people making bank claiming to do it to be punished.
For example, I'm irritated by the tactical nihilism that the "viruses aren't real anyways" crowd has, which conveniently leads people into comforting dead ends.
Could they be one step ahead? Rather than as a way to promulgate the immune escape narrative and covid lethality narrative via the MFM, could the Boston paper be designed to create in-fighting and dissent amongst the various camps of the MFM? On Maajid Nawaz show yesterday, Robert Malone said there is a lot of it about, and that the World Organization for Health had just imploded!? Maybe we need to be cognizant of that and avoid getting involved in in-figthing over technicalties?
Fascinating... the BU story as a biological warfare threat from the US to other nations. I had never considered that possibility, in all of my far reaching thoughts during the last few years. My initial thoughts about China releasing a bioweapon in order to boost their economy by having everyone order their PPE products, pretty much went out the window when I saw reports about their wrecked economy (mortgage crisis and more) and zero covid mania.
I always appreciate that you keep sobriety and distance from hysteria. I saw the majority of my regular Substackers write about this. So much so, that I avoided all of the stacks that had that title.
Also, Hunter Biden wears underwear?!? I’m not even sure I’ve seen the man wear pants.
"The Curious Case of Geert Vanden Bossche" by Rosemary Frei, MSc
"But Vanden Bossche bases his views on unproven hypotheses. This is similar to, and builds on, high-profile modeling-paper authors who use theoretical frameworks to inflame fears about the supposed dangerousness of the new variants."
"Despite this, Vanden Bossche’s views were very quickly and positively received by high-profile vaccine sceptics such as 𝐃𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐠𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧"
"Bigtree and Coleman virtually 𝐮𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬. They strongly insinuate to their overwhelmingly credulous subscribers that there’s virtually no fact-checking or pause for sober second thought required."
"But from my experience as a former long-time medical writer and journalist (1988-2016) — particularly a four-month stint with media-relations giant Fleishman Hillard in 1994 (yes, I’ve worked for the dark side) — 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠-𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧. It’s another step in the decades-long erasure of the fact that our sophisticated and highly effective immune systems work well and don’t need any assistance from the biomedical/pharmaceutical industry" https://www.rosemaryfrei.ca/the-curious-case-of-geert-vanden-bossche/
This "formerly" 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 & 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 character spoke the magic words, and suddenly he was a hero of the medical freedom movement.
People so desperately need "heroes," people they can defer to, someone they can offload their own responsibility to act onto, they latch on to the closest available figure, and the other side knows that. This "movement" is peppered from top to bottom with shills. I don't even know if "peppered" is accurate. If Vernon Coleman is such a danger to the establishment, how does he keep finding mainstream publishers willing to print his voluminous bibliography?
This is why I read you, and this is why I reserve judgement about all things. Something about this smelled bad, and I don't mean the research. It was the reaction. Thanks for the help seeing the angles.
Thanks for pointing this out, Mathew! Anyone calling Omicron a vaccine-escape variant either hasn't done their research or is otherwise ignorant/confused/malicious. Here's a post I made on this topic in December 2021 to Steve Kirsch's substack:
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/was-omicron-a-natural-evolution-of/comment/4199722
Full text of the above comment:
Great comment! I was going to say something very similar. You already said it. I'll add a few comments:
A) Self spreading vaccines have been discussed quietly for a long time. They were always off-limits to "serious people" because they gratuitously violate the Nuremberg Code. Due to extensive government violations of that same code it's now moot. Note that self-spreading vaccines are ANATHEMA to big pharma, as there's no easy way to monetize them.
B) Omicron perfectly fits the design specifications of a self-spreading vaccine: less dangerous, spreads best in people who have taken the mRNA jab, maximally transmissible.
1. First modify it to only reproduce in throat epithelial cells, making it less dangerous. This could be done by evolutionary selection via serial passage through humanized mice, which have multiple kinds of human epithelial cells..
2. Modify it to exploit mRNA vaccination to spread better. Again, evolutionary selection via serial passage through jabbed humanized mice ought to do it.
3. Modify it to be maximally transmissible. Use every trick known to the state of the art. This may have taken some engineering beyond evolution selection via serial passage. Or not. I don't know.
4. All this will take a while. Like a year or so. Not simple & can't be rushed.
Omicron seems to fit my ideal for a self-spreading vaccine. It altered the narrative in a way that's hostile to the Great Rest crowd. Sure seems likely that it came from some white hat biohacker lab.
While I obviously don't know, my guess is that it's the operation of a small independent team acting on its own without official backing. As in, I guess that INDIVIDUALS from some lab that already does biowarfare technology teamed up in secret and conducted an "independent project" on the sly. We know these labs both operate in secrecy and have poor oversight. Knowing that no good deed goes unpunished, I guess those who created Omicron have already been identified and eliminated as traitors to both pharma companies and the Great Reset crowd. I hope they died well, knowing that did a great service to humanity.
I guess the "four foreign diplomats" thing s a red herring.
That's my two cents.
I don’t think Omicron required whitehatting to begin post dec 2019 and occur under tight deadlines.
Even prior to release of gene drives, the community is building and publishing the countermeasures known as Daisy Chain drives.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1716358116
If SARs-COV-2 is a bioweapon (alone it sucks as one, but combined with propaganda it’s very effective), no one would build it, without concurrently building the antidote. Otherwise it ceases to become a weapon.
One reason, I’m skeptical of the immunocomp patient theory of omicron emergence is that immunocomp patients aren’t isolated like lab rats and it took months for a few variants to emerge so we’d need 18 months for omicron to emerge without intermediate leak. There should be intermediates if this was brewed in people (unless all those intermediates reside in an unsampled tissue like the GI, unlikely).
Labs can contain intermediates from leaking more so than hospitals with patients.
There is clear evidence of selective pressure in spike and it occurred faster than naturally possible. There is an evolutionary thumb on the scale.
Thanks for plugging the military whistleblower darkhorse episode. I'm on the one that dropped today, on reviewing it I had an opportunity to mention Brook Jackson's case when I talked about the RCT briefly, but I dropped the ball. Nevertheless, I think we covered a lot of good additional stuff. Keep up the strong work trying to make sense of everything, you're so far ahead of the curve people can't even understand it. They're still quoting the pre-glitch DMED data in some circles while the opposition has tailor made fact-checks for that story... people get irritated when you try to correct them so that our team can't get staw-manned, freaking crazy time to be alive.
I came to a similar conclusion almost immediately, and it was weirdly Berenson's "everyone stop whining about gain of function the real war crime here was my Twitter suspension" post that jolted it into me.
The conclusion I arrived at, though, was that it was a threat being slow-walked to the PUBLIC:
This time we really can kill you. Maybe we'll sell you the antidote to the poison you just drank. Now shut the fuck up, we're sending your kid to Belarus.
Hi Mathew,
Small world, much too small. Only in the last week or so, I found out about (and started following) Housatonic through reading comments under one of Sage Hana's posts. Listening to the link you sent as I am typing this. Ooo .. just heard that word 'iatrogenocide' which I now associate with Toby Rogers' substack.
And it was through Steve Kirsch, also this week, I found that great Brett Weinstein discussion with the lawyer and two dissenting military officers.
While Brett and guests were trying to wrap their heads around some of the Kafkaesque absurdities in sacrificing military preparedness for a more-than-questionable narrative, I thought of another option ... and if I could imagine that option, I am quite certain it has long since been tossed back and forth behind closed DOD doors. The scenario is as follows:
1 — The effects of the mRNA treatments may be correlated with the production lot number of the product. About a year or so ago, I remember that a foreign, metallic substance had been discovered in a shipment of the vaccine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/08/30/national/contaminated-moderna-vaccine-explainer/
From other sources I've seen on Rumble or Odysee, the metallic substance was thought to not be a contaminant, but rather a salient component of those treatments which still do not meet the definition of 'informed consent'. But just for the sake of argument, supposing Moderna's excuse was reliable and correct, that it was a mistake due to low quality controls in a Spanish production plant, it stands to reason that different lots have degrees of safety, if not efficacy.
2 — Brett and company brought up the huge tax-funded cost of aircraft and pilot training, and rightfully questioned the logic of lock-step mandates for an experimental treatment that does not even adhere to safety standards formerly applied to commercial pilots.
Time out for a snicker ... 25:40 .... just heard Dr. Gallo referred to as a POS ... 'Person of Science'.
3 — I see no reason to suspect the powers-that-be do not know which lots are 'safer' than others, or even better, which lots are nothing but saline solution.
4 — While 'decimating' (the original definition of the term) the ranks of high cost pilots, presenting those pilots with a false dichotomy of forfeiting bodily autonomy to potentially dangerous mRNA treatments ... or keeping their career and livelihood (if not passion or patriotism) would be a way of insuring the remaining military would be the equivalence of the 'good German' following superior orders, the Nuremberg Defense — while in fact, preserving the financial investment in hardware and training by injecting only saline solution into those who choose to relinquish their moral autonomy.
5 — Biden, and in these fragmented, polarized times, probably anyone in power, appears to be anxious to legally appropriate the military for use against civilian dissent. Such a compliant military, who would risk their own autonomy to keep a job, would be more pliable in the hands of the sociopaths in charge, and not likely to refuse blatantly immoral orders.
For those holding the reigns of power, win-win.
For the rest of us, twisting in the wind, second guessing.
Now at 50:00 into the Housatonic video.
Susan Sontag must be spinning in her grave.
p.s. ... Still watching, re-watching, and organizing comments on that recent 'Red Herring' round-table talk. Tessa Lena is among my favorite recent reads and chats.
Cheers from Japan,
steve
I've seen some pretty lurid commentary on this study via Substack articles. This article is a timely reminder and friendly warning not to get too wrapped up in the fear game, because that's 'their' game, not ours. I'm not sure this is a case of mass formation in the Resistance ranks but we do need to be careful not to slip on psychological banana skins. Thanks.
Something which most commentators seem to have missed is that this research appears to have been done on Ba.1, before the emergence of Ba.4 and Ba.5 subvariants, which may or may not be relevant, but the fact is, Ba.1 is now functionally extinct.
I am fairly convinced we are in World war E as you call it. Or at least I am concerned enough to think we need to put risk management processes in place and stop pretending it isn't a possibility. Am I certain? No way. But am I worried and can see potential and even a strategy slowly unfolding? Yes.
Has your work office ever caught on fire? Probably not. Do you have fire extinguishers there and conduct the occasional fire drills or have a fire warden? Seems sensible to consider the worst case scenarios even if they are remote.
It is better to be the warrior in the garden than the gardener in war.
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive.” - Sun Tzu
Another concern I have, with everyone screaming about GoF out of Boston hospital, is that it provides perfect smoke for a foreign actor to actually do something.
Everyone screaming about Putin and nukes, seems to forget the soviets had a pretty impressive bioweapon capability which they were surprisingly open about, “Da, we weaponized smallpox, so what?”
Would Putin be more likely to nuke us, and risk ending all of Russia, or would it be wiser to unleash a Slavic Sneeze in downtown Boston, and sit back while half the country tears itself apart blaming the other half of America?
I think the real payload of the study is not the supposed lethality, etc. Rather, it is the normalization of this kind of dangerous tinkering. The reported results of the study are less important than understanding that the source of the research is a team of ‘respectable’ university professors, MDs, and young naive post docs, passing off reckless research under the guise of some twisted notion of ‘doing good’. Meanwhile, the DoD sits in the shadows, ready to claim the fruits of insanity.
Mathew, thank you! Did you read the substack article from Alex Berenson? He wrote that mice infected with the original sars-cov-2 variant had a 100% fatality rate. And since the fatality rate in humans was (fortunately) much lower than 100%, he suggests that the 80% fatality rate of this new "omicron experiment" is actually not as horrible as it sounds. I did not verify his claims yet. And of course I do not support this ongoing gain of function research. It is a catastrophe and it also illegal as far as I know.. I just wanted to mention that, if Berenso is right, the 80% fatality rate does not translate like this into humans. So this is important for anxious people to know.
Lots of people being wrong about the same thing is not the same as a mass formation. Mass formation is effectively a comforting meme people will tell themselves to forgive the family and friends who mistreated them and won't acknowledge it. Maybe I hold the MFM to a different standard, but there's very little "mass" about it. People are fragmented on a variety of different lines and as far as I can tell it's a quite small pond.
If I understand your major point is that the "80% mortality" is complete bunk, and something is working to target fearporn/threats in various channels (mainstream & alt-mainstream). I'll admit I don't care if GoF is simply a hoax to milk govt funding, I still want the people making bank claiming to do it to be punished.
For example, I'm irritated by the tactical nihilism that the "viruses aren't real anyways" crowd has, which conveniently leads people into comforting dead ends.
Could they be one step ahead? Rather than as a way to promulgate the immune escape narrative and covid lethality narrative via the MFM, could the Boston paper be designed to create in-fighting and dissent amongst the various camps of the MFM? On Maajid Nawaz show yesterday, Robert Malone said there is a lot of it about, and that the World Organization for Health had just imploded!? Maybe we need to be cognizant of that and avoid getting involved in in-figthing over technicalties?
Fascinating... the BU story as a biological warfare threat from the US to other nations. I had never considered that possibility, in all of my far reaching thoughts during the last few years. My initial thoughts about China releasing a bioweapon in order to boost their economy by having everyone order their PPE products, pretty much went out the window when I saw reports about their wrecked economy (mortgage crisis and more) and zero covid mania.
I always appreciate that you keep sobriety and distance from hysteria. I saw the majority of my regular Substackers write about this. So much so, that I avoided all of the stacks that had that title.
Also, Hunter Biden wears underwear?!? I’m not even sure I’ve seen the man wear pants.
"The Curious Case of Geert Vanden Bossche" by Rosemary Frei, MSc
"But Vanden Bossche bases his views on unproven hypotheses. This is similar to, and builds on, high-profile modeling-paper authors who use theoretical frameworks to inflame fears about the supposed dangerousness of the new variants."
"Despite this, Vanden Bossche’s views were very quickly and positively received by high-profile vaccine sceptics such as 𝐃𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐠𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧"
"Bigtree and Coleman virtually 𝐮𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬. They strongly insinuate to their overwhelmingly credulous subscribers that there’s virtually no fact-checking or pause for sober second thought required."
"But from my experience as a former long-time medical writer and journalist (1988-2016) — particularly a four-month stint with media-relations giant Fleishman Hillard in 1994 (yes, I’ve worked for the dark side) — 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠-𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧. It’s another step in the decades-long erasure of the fact that our sophisticated and highly effective immune systems work well and don’t need any assistance from the biomedical/pharmaceutical industry" https://www.rosemaryfrei.ca/the-curious-case-of-geert-vanden-bossche/
This "formerly" 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 & 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 character spoke the magic words, and suddenly he was a hero of the medical freedom movement.
People so desperately need "heroes," people they can defer to, someone they can offload their own responsibility to act onto, they latch on to the closest available figure, and the other side knows that. This "movement" is peppered from top to bottom with shills. I don't even know if "peppered" is accurate. If Vernon Coleman is such a danger to the establishment, how does he keep finding mainstream publishers willing to print his voluminous bibliography?
This is why I read you, and this is why I reserve judgement about all things. Something about this smelled bad, and I don't mean the research. It was the reaction. Thanks for the help seeing the angles.