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Nov 18, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Any story with “smallpox” is by necessity some mash of propaganda/psy-op. The virus wasn’t as lethal as we remember it. As always the baseline ill health of the 1800s plus lack of ability to culture mild cases distorts memory; additionally, stabbing everyone’s arms full of pus from random animals every few years only made later outbreaks worse (see “Dissolving Illusions”). At some point shortly before the virus became rare in the West it also became quite mild. Some combination of gradual change in overall health and step-function cognitive distortion altered reality; it was a “brand new” virus that no longer matched its notorious history. And then it was eradicated via track and trace (quite easy since the rash appears before it becomes transmissible), not the useless vaccine. Yet the notorious history and the fantasy of an effective vaccine survived, the mundane truth died.

If you wanted to cook up a super-virus you wouldn’t pick one that displays a rash before it can spread. Way better to edit chickenpox to remove the dormancy timer genes, but that might be impossible, as I’ve said elsewhere.

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That's okay. I'll conjure a vaccine for smallpox in two or three days. At least, that's what it will be marketed to stop.

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We underestimate our elites. They're very keen on their poisons. And we overestimate 'viruses' they've never hurt anyone.

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Nov 18, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Brian - doesn't smallpox have a 30% mortality in susceptible populations? Even if it is now only 5% mortality, that makes Covid look like, well, the sniffles. And you chat of not worrying about it spreading - tell that to the developing nations that can't hole up in their houses with their laptops. It could be that smallpox causes massive destruction in the poorer countries (exactly what Covid COULDN'T do to the skinnier crowds). Even if it's "mild" as you put it.

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Nov 18, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

I recommend Huber's summary of the "Dissolving Illusions" research on the Leicester smallpox experiment - https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/catastrophic-vaccines-this-is-not

'The sanitary committee claimed that “smallpox is one of the least troublesome diseases with which they have to deal.” The Leicester Minister of Health and physician C. Killick Millard MD, DSc observed: “Now nearly two-thirds of the children born are not vaccinated. Yet smallpox mortality has also declined until now quite negligible.”'

The history of smallpox is full of stuff that doesn't quite add up. It seems human awareness of the virus was influential in ways that went beyond the failed mania for vaccination and mandates in the 1800s - 1930s, but overall when people stopped paying so much attention to it, normal immunity worked fine. Probably would be the same for SARS-CoV-2.

I'm doing my own reconstruction of the polio story - "Dissolving Illusions" is a bit too simplistic on that subject.

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Nov 18, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Mathew love your stuff. Great article. Can you please at some point explain Bill Gates on your Substack. Why is he everywhere?

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Others go after Bill Gates more deeply than I have time. I doubt I can do a better job than RFK Jr. can.

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Quite surprised at the number of Kennedys who have gone through Klaus's haus. Robert not one of them though.

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I don't know what that means.

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Young Global Leaders, it's a WEF thing. Macron, Ardern, Newsom are all 'alumni'.

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Regarding Mr Gates, pick what you find useful from this: https://www.corbettreport.com/who-is-bill-gates-full-documentary-2020/

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Corbett does an excellent job.

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Indeed. He is factual and has an English degree, I believe, which definitely helps in how he packs and conveys information.

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Excellent recommendation, a best source on Gates history!!

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"Why is he [Gates] everywhere?" That is a question that many of us have asked and wondered.

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Picked because his parents were eugenicists and converted into a fairytale billionaire to act as strawman (in the old meaning) for billionaires who did not want to show their faces.

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I'm starting to think this is the case, based on his recent off-script sentences. I only imagined he was instrumental because "immunity as subscription software" seemed like something a software mogul would come up with; but now I provisionally have him slotted back in the Zuckerberg Unwitting Puppet club.

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To understand Bill Gates you had to be around and in the industry when Microsoft was taking off. First of all, MS's explosion on the scene was brought about by IBM. IBM was just getting into PCs, thought of as toy computers back in the late 70's, early 80's. IBM needed an operating system and bought M-Basic, which really was a BASIC interpreter that had some OS add ons. It was a piece of crap, to say the least. Gates was a super prick at that time. He would yell, scream and carry on like a spoiled little brat, then storm out of meetings. Most of the employees at MS hated him. He is without a doubt mentally deranged. What happens when a mentally deranged person gets $200 billion? I was a young programmer at the time and working with MS software was painful. Many think that MS created so many software developer enemies, that computer viruses were a result as they all initially attacked the very weak MS-DOS. Gates is now into real viruses ... talk about irony.

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Nov 19, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

This years extend vaccine safety debate forced me to look into smallpox eradication history more seriously, and find that it was such a different contagion that the response was relatively easy, The sores make anyone suffering immediately visible, and quarantinable, while the disease is only transferred by contact. Of course, they may have figured out how to aerosolize it to begin with, but just the threat and a few pictures are what is needed to extend the police state, which is really what it's all about.

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SIGNALS ABOUND

▪️You've likely heard of 'Dark Winter (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter)'

▪️Biden (https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-11-09/biden-warns-of-very-dark-winter-as-us-approaches-10-million-coronavirus-cases) & Fauci (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-fauci-dark-winter/) have been dropping that phrase repeatedly for over a year

▪️The diseas, which has a 30% fatality rate, was eradicated in the U.S. in 1972. It only exists in research laboratories now in much more lethal forms

▪️However, Bill Gates has urged leaders to use 'Germ Games (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallpox-terror-attack-b1951245.html)' to prepare for smallpox terror attacks. Similar to his 'Event 201' that gamed the pandemic in 2019

▪️Many ther 'gaming scenarios' have coincidentally gone live before

▪️The govt has also knowingly released bio attacks as 'harmless' tests

▪️In Sept 2019 the FDA approved a new smallpox vaccine

▪️In June 2021 the FDA rushed approval of smallpox treatment, Tembexa (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/news-events-human-drugs/fda-approves-drug-treat-smallpox)

▪️Canada & the U.S. have been stockpiling TPOXX medication (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/06/15/2047972/0/en/SIGA-Technologies-Announces-Department-of-Defense-Increases-Funding-to-Develop-Post-Exposure-Prophylactic-Indication-for-TPOXX.html)

▪️Vials of smallpox were "found" at a Merck Lab (https://t.me/westcoastintel/16642) in suburban Philadelphia

▪️Coincidentally the new Bond movie (filmed in 2019) opens with a joke scene about a missing smallpox container

▪️We now have a case of monkeypox in Maryland (https://t.me/westcoastintel/16628?single)

None of this is coincidence.

https://t.me/FreedomDoc1/1722

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A pox on those makers and their beneficiaries.

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Spot on post. Two books I would recommend that everyone read to learn all about the true cause of most wars are "The Creature from Jekyll Island" and "The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman". To see how far back some of this goes check out a very short read by a marine general after WWI called "War is a Racket" where he lays out how so many companies got rich off the war while not actually doing anything for the war effort.

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Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, Jr.? Not what he seems, sorry.

http://mileswmathis.com/butler2.pdf

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Skimming through this and it looks to be about his background. Do they counter any of the points he makes in the book?

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Folks forget but small pox threat was floated at the same time as anthrax in the immediate post 9-11 time frame. Two great looks at that & fun flashback to H1N1 Rummy flu and Gilead windfalls 2005 Engdhal w 2003 Global Research for context..

https://web.archive.org/web/20060129105729/http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/11-09-05/discussion.cgi.92.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20040110031052/http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html

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I am Canadian, and we have driven down the East coast of the US, on route to Florida, many times. I loved driving through each of the States and recollecting novels and literature that I'd read that was set in those places. I sang John Denver while my husband drove us through West Virginia with our daughter snoozing in the back seat. We took a different route once, and headed into Washington, D.C. at 3:30 on a Friday afternoon. It was my turn to drive, and I missed those handy express lanes (there may have been "words" exchanged about that one). The GPS sent us on a different pathway, and we ended up, hours later, on a back road, where I looked and saw a sign that said, "Academy of Quantico." The reader in my was thrilled. I also got excited at Disney when I walked down the Streets of America or sat through the Carousel of Progress for the 14th time, and celebrated the 4th of July, along with the animatronics. Magical moments that I think about as we head into the dark days of winter.

I respected/appreciated what the US stands/stood for and I'm gutted at what I see unfolding across the West. Were our lives, as we knew them, simply a "grand illusion?" I have to believe that the spirit of the people, of our humanity, was/is real. The evil we see unfolding has been with us since the beginning of man.

Bill Gates is what happens when people's love for money overcomes their good senses. I don't personally believe he is a psychopath. He is too nervous and ineffectual when being interviewed, and appears more on the spectrum. Is he "just" trying to "fit in"?

Regardless, the idea that these monsters would unleash another plague on their own people is incomprehensible. How do they look at their children and grandchildren, knowing what they are doing to their world too? Who wants to be the son or daughter of a Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot?

The only thing that keeps me going some days, is my belief that those fighting on the right side of history will prevail and out the cockroaches from their cracks and corners. But "the waiting is the hardest part."

As for Trudeau, IMO he is a wannabe and personifies the "sock-puppet." He wants a seat at the big-table, but like Biden, will likely be easily disposed of by the bad guys, when they're done with him.

Sorry - long comment. One of my principal's used to say (partway through the first sentence of one of my pre-ambles), "What's your point?" Like Bill, he didn't have great social skills.

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Trudeau is quite nasty, very comfortable in front of a corporate audience basically laughing at what he's up to and then telling the less privileged that they have to accept what's coming to them as that's the price of progress. He's a real creep.

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I'm not a fan either, But, don't forget, he's a drama teacher. I don't think the river runs that deep. Like Bill, I think he is vying for approval from Uncle Klaus and whoever else is pulling the strings.

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This date (September 2019) has also cropped up in this essay http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-central-bankers-long-covid-emergency-noise-and-conspiracys-best-kept-secret/ the second by the author I have read from this website. I have asked the author if there is any coincidence ("Here is a summary of Covid’s economic rationale. The September 2019 bailout of the financial sector – which, after eleven blissful years of Quantitative Easing, was again on the verge of a nervous breakdown – involved an unprecedented expansion of monetary stimulus: the creation of trillions of dollars with the magic wand of the Federal Reserve...") Any thoughts Mathew?

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Hmm... makes me want to convert all my money into Gold, Guns and Bullets (maybe in the reverse order) - and head to the hills for an off-grid existence.

I cannot find much fault with Vighi's logic - it is a terrifying prospect. I'd like to think that before we in the USA give into this authoritarian state there would be a civil war to attempt to stop it, but these days I'm not sure there are enough people willing to die to save their freedoms.... time will tell.

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"our successfully paranoid universe will fail to totalise its structure"

I could rephrase that.

"they're overestimating their ability"

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I saw that on John Titus' video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOEvurCVuk&t=7s

Allende killed on that day (9/11/73) as well, but this is a funny "coincidence". They're very fond of making sure their numbers roll up how they want them, very fond. Is physics maybe the reason, everything comes back to maths at some stage?

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Mathew, will you be addressing Scott Alexander's look at the efficacy of IVM? Thanks in advance! Love your work. ~ Chris https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted

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Nov 19, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

That's a very compelling argument for the... specificity? of IVM's effective use scenarios. Unfortunately, I stopped reading at the point the author said "vacines are safe and effective" and anti-vaxers are "completely crazy and wrong." It seems they did the hard work with IVM, but haven't bothered to scratch the surface of the "invented in 2 days" mRNA gene therapy for which the elite desperately needed to create an impetus to do mass experimentation.

That's how it works out here, you take the good information and leave the bad. I don't believe we here are ideologues. We saw the positive results, and we saw the bad people do everything in their power to shut it down, usurping the good judgement and authority of doctors, and we know damn well it wasn't for our benefit. Sigh. I just stocked up on IVM. I guess now I can afford to play fast and loose with undercooked meat.

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In this video, I did note in that the horrific story of Veronica Wolski, her attorney mentioned she had been on a course of IVM prior to being hospitalized. https://rumble.com/vmtpt1-medical-freedom-stop-medical-tyranny-exposing-hospital-abuses.html

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Our health institutions are in complete shambles, coerced and threatened if they treat patients with certain safe drugs, our education institutions are in complete catastrophe mode, punishing professors for teaching actual science and fact, our government has completely lost the plot allowing lawlessness and a one sided justice system of political punishment, allowing illegal immigrants to stream across the border from everywhere and destroying our economy with reckless unending spending. We have Antifa and BLM radicals threatening to riot snd burn cities down if they don’t get their way! We have the government threatening to take away the few freedoms we still have if we don’t take a vaccine that is failing at a remarkable rate. What is going on? Why are we being pushed harder and harder toward civil war? We must resist because that is exactly what the elites want us to do. It was the elites who owned slaves, not ordinary citizens, it was the elites who got us into war after war to satisfy their own greed. It has never been ordinary hard working Americans who get us into this. It’s the Bill Gates and Tony Fauci’s drunk with power and a leader who isn’t sure where he is or what day it is! What’s next?

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Do we REALLY need to know how much pain a ape can take before literally dying of agony?

Like, is this the SCIENCE (TM) I've heard so much about?

Want to bet that the government is still conducting illegal human experimentation on prisoners of conscence somewhere?

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I ran across Jordan Peterson in a MOOC called The Cognitive Science of Religion. His lecture, for the Templeton Foundation, included a discussion of how insane our species had become, with an example being that the Russians had a lab where they were trying to cross Ebola with Smallpox. Whatever Jordan Peterson's positions, and I find many questionable, I'm sure he was portraying extant literature fact. I have no freaking idea what that means however.

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