Nice work. Right now I'm trying to track which experimental vaccines were given and what pathogen(s) were in them in 1918, as compared to what was found in the 1980s study of what people had actually had died from. What we know from the study, it was a bacterial pneumonia and the CDC with Fauci as one of the co-authors tried to cover this up by saying it was a bacterial induced virus that was the real killer. They obviously don't want a correlative link between the vaccines given to all the military personnel at induction and the specific bacteria in the experimental vaccines and the influenza and pneumonia they are causing. Then we need to check with what the WHO is approving every year for the annual influenza vaccines and see if there is any correlation there as well.
Between the childhood, travel, war and flu vaccines Big pharma and the Fasci as I like to call them, those who make their living selling goods and services to the various Governments and NGOs, have literally made a fortune, of course placing even the liabilities for any harm they do, also on the taxpayers. (YJCMTSU). You Just Can't Make This Shit Up, yet there are literally tons of historical data and evidence now that proves it's the vaccines and our bodies naturally ability to shed the various pathogens and infect others. You know they've knew about this for decades, because they have tried so very very hard to cover it up.
Under all the fascist programs, they have now bankrupted much of the civilian populations around the world, with all their centralized planning by the central bankers and NGOs, like the U.N. and NATO that the fiat currency system is now effectively broken and they are trying to implement a period of social chaos, so they can have time to implement their proposed CBDCs. This appears to be their goals, and I am of the opinion that they will not be able to pull this off without substantial pushback from the people. We've seen their experiments with Austria, Australia and now Canada with gun control, as well as the push in the U.S. The problem with CBDCs is pricing just like the fiats and they don't want a bi-metallic system because of the restrictions it placing on their agendas. We are in the war(s) of our lives and even truth is part of it.
Just some loose thoughts since there's nothing to critique about your overall approach to the topic -
Flu was never assumed to be annual before PCR. If you told any flu researcher before PCR that flu "mysteriously" disappeared for two years, they would say, "What do you mean, mysterious?" Here is Andrewes in 1953, 20 years after helping to nurse the first human-to-ferret passage: "The behaviour of influenza has seemed so erratic as regards its occurrence in both time and space that it has fascinated epidemiologists for many years. ... Since about 1933 influenza A has come to many countries in out- breaks every two or three years, with a tendency as time has passed for the peaks to come less frequently and to attain lesser heights." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2554199/ In the pre-PCR way of thinking, if it wasn't an "epidemic" year (lots of observed simultaneous flu), you weren't likely to succeed in passaging anything to ferret / egg and the virus wasn't actually around.
Even up to the 90s it was understood that flu is ephemeral and strange. In fact viral interference (one virus boosts cellular anti-viral immunity) was a dominant theory for why strains sporadically die out. Webster, to whom more understanding about flu is owed than any other human: "Why Do Some Strains Die Out? ... The reasons for the sudden disappearance of previously circulating human strains are unknown. ... Virus disappearance may be explained by a mechanism for systematic interference between competing strains; i.e., infection with one subtype of virus elicits cross-protection against a different subtype." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC372859/
Since viruses reflect network effects it wouldn't matter if some vulnerables still exist. The raising of the alarm in the population after one virus makes a break-in leaves the other virus unable to do same. Meanwhile sporadic transmission may still occur but not observed simultaneous illness as with an "epidemic" year.
So the only mystery in 2020/21 is why PCR stopped lighting up, not why the virus as an agent of observed waves of illness disappeared.
This might all lend to a theory of a "non-PCR-targeted" release but the argument against that is, see above, flu = mysterious. I don't think anyone is capable of intentionally displacing PCR-targeted flu with a non-target strain because we don't even understand how the flu's genes survive from one wave to the next. It is like if trees somehow grew without seeds - then we obviously wouldn't have a clue how to intentionally "seed" a different tree.
Triple spikes and "immunology 101 wave" defiance are not so strange for flu. The arrival of H3N2 in UK in 1968 was very lumpy https://unglossed.substack.com/i/44779108/case-study-influenza-uk 2018/19 isn't actually that different from 19/20 in shape, just has a hump in the place of the third spike, which still defies wave.
So overall I think the conservative approach to the "flu mystery" is to realize that flu has always been a mystery.
RE the excess deaths in Australia, percentage will make things a bit wonky since baseline is getting lower in Regular Human Winter and higher in Regular Human Summer.
In summer Jan 2020 I had an a weird case of something. I was freezing using a hot pack but it was summer. I went to a Dr thinking could it be Covid. Couldn’t get a test because I hadn’t been overseas. It wasn’t that bad, was a bit breathless. Ive had killer flu before, this wasn’t that.
We had a few sporadic outbreaks of Covid reported but we did close borders early, some people still got in.
I can say with certainty that Aus doesn’t really test for flu. I never had a flu test in my life, despite going to the Dr with bad flu like symptoms & even getting a puffer.
There is still the do not come to the Dr if you have flu symptoms here which was only bought in since Covid, so I highly doubt that Aus has accurate flu records.
Brazil got the “ Darwin “ flu in Dec 2021 as the WHO called it from here, which is our summer so there was definitely flu circulating.
Be aware that pneumonia is a disease process, not a specific pathogen. I listened to JC’s long podcast of a few weeks ago, and it struck me that he does not appreciate this fact. There are viral pneumonias, there are bacterial pneumonias, and there are viral pneumonias that have a secondary bacterial infection. This 3rd is what cause most influenza deaths.
There IS a different pathogen circulating, as the disease process with COVID has been a profound d inflammatory disease with associated clotting. The early pathology out of Italy in Feb-Mar 2020 did not show the typical signs of bacterial pneumonia. When Paul Marik began using Medrol (steroid for inflammation) & heparin (anticoagulant), AND didn’t use ventilators (which cause baro trauma - over-pressure - in the lungs), people got better. Ivermectin helps with multiple facets of this disease as well.
Spanish flu ... interesting idea. It would NOT surprise me that someone would engineer this. I will listen to some of your guests interviews & examine his evidence.
Here's yet another hypothesis, from a French statistician:
- There were both a SARS-Cov2 pandemic and a usual flu pandemic. (As well as all the usual respiratory viruses.) None of them was an unusual threat to health if they were given the usual medical attention, with early treatments, for instance.
- Lockdowns and official instructions such as "don't see a doctor if you have symptoms and only call an ambulance when you can't breathe" led normal flus and respiratory illnesses to aggravate and to kill many people who could have been cured if they had seen a doctor as usual.
- Hospitals needed to declare patients they received with any respiratorial symptoms as "Covid patients" because they got extra public fundings for Covid patients. (It was the case in France, was it the same in other Western countries?) Hence the apparent disappearance of the flu.
- As a conclusion, the *official response* to the pandemic (which very well may have been sincerely thought as the best they could do) was responsible for most of the extra deaths and made things *look like* there was a deadly pandemic going on, caused by only one respiratory virus, and other usual respiratory viruses had disappeared.
Novel flu would affect kids and young adults as well as the elderly. Plus we have all kinds of serological evidence showing there was a novel coronavirus circulating early in 2020 and test positivity for flu dropped as it should at end of the flu season. Lots of metagenomic sequencing was being conducted and would have picked up something as well
The treatment protocols for COVID caused many of the COVID deaths, and many were deaths caused by other diseases that were wrongly attributed to COVID
As to the lack of flu after the first wave, I think viral interference is very plausible. CDC denied this early on because they wanted to make a case it was masks and social distancing that was the reason, which is BS
Steve, I'd like to point you to an article that I authored early in the pandemic and reissued with updates, demonstrating that virtually no one died of covid; virtually all deaths were due to malpractice (forbidding early treatment) and the jabs. e.g., ZERO deaths in Cambodia until the jabs came in, and far superior performance in malaria countries in general, due to HCQ. https://www.fittrimimmortal.com/blog/covid-statistical-hijinx
Just wondering, what if chemicals have been spread in the atmosphere instead. People would get sick easily and it would look like a pandemic. I think it's very easy to execute a chemical attack through air nowadays.
What matters whether covid, cold, or flu? Certainly not to the corporate medical complex and big pharma it's all U07.1 They care about the bottom line; they care about the almighty dollar. Further the narrative and fear at all costs. Saving lives is secondary. Early treatment be damned.
With a bogus covid test, being told we're sick when we have no symptoms, and telling people they can transmit a deadly disease without even knowing they have it, they have created the perfect fear mongering, money making machine. Print trillions to throw at the contrived, controlled, and captured, conspirators. Print trillions more to "bail out" those impacted by the conspiracy. Their blood money won't bring back the dead and injured.
I'm glad you ask the difficult questions about details. Details matter.
"Pneumonia" means nothing in this context. It can be caused by a virus or bacteria. And doctors normally don't test for which one so that data is not available. I'm not sure but this might involve an invasive procedure to get a sample of sputum from the lungs.
My doctor told me 70% of bronchitis (not pneumonia) is viral in nature, and that's why I only ask her for something to treat the symptoms. If I go to the doctor for this my over the counter meds have not worked. I get lots of rest, drink lots of water, and take vitamins to support the immune system.
4! Remember P and I was changed to PIC to include Covid at the onset of the Plandemonium. This perfectly illustrates the rebranding of P and I into a new phantom menace backstopped by iatrogenocidal protocols and financially incentivized murder.
Thinking outside of the box here. What testing mechanisms do all of those labs use for fluA/B? I know that PCR is basically looking for specific sequences in a sample based on an extremely specific primer. Is there a limited set of known primers used? Would it be possible for a govt/ngo funded lab to tweak a flu strain to replace the specific sequences that are tested for by all known labs intentionally such that the existing tests don’t pick them up? Then if that flu strain wins out, people still have flu (some comment said 40% of tests come back with unknown), but it doesn’t get recorded in the flu column because no test recognizes it and it can’t be traced back to your lab. It’s no secret that tons of orgs would love to engineer a virus that acts as a vaccine and are probably doing this, and many are doing gof. Would it not also make sense while you’re tweaking a virus to also take steps to make it evade current detection? All evidence I’ve seen points to the coof release being accidental because they didn’t even bother to remove specific markers from it that clearly show it was edited in a lab, because the “easy” edit areas are well known. What if the 2020 flu strain that won out was an exceedingly infectious (but not deadly) manmade virus that completed production where all the markers were removed, and then after a year it evolved/merged with other strains to resurface the hallmark sequences? Would be a pretty sneaky way to run a global test under the radar, where of course your testing methods look for your frankenvirus parts but everyone else is unaware and focused on coof.
Another idea is the flu strain the year before was mostly immunizing (whether manmade or not), then what flu escaped evolved to get past the new immunity two years later. Not married to this hypothesis, should be disprovable.
Okay, very interesting interview. The “zero flu” was also due to the cross reactivity on high-cycle test runs. 1918 re-release ... a new & updated remake of an old classic - sounds like Hollywood remaking movies. Wouldn’t surprise me.
The conflation of influenza (specific viral illness) & pneumonia (a “final common pathway” for infectious disease in the lungs) needs clarification. I honestly don’t pay much attention to databases as the sources are not necessarily trustworthy. I will have a look at this.
There definitely was some unique pathology with Covid. If the 1918 flu caused massive inflammation & clotting , it might look very much the same. The “pre-Covid influenza deaths” were far greater than I realized.
The entire narrative just gets more questionable. At least there is now widespread knowledge of antiviral properties of IVM, chloroquine derivatives, and other meds. And “awake” docs are much better prepared to ‘think through’ future diseases in the same way Marik, McCullough, Zelenko, Urso, and others have done.
I confess I was shocked that JC now doesn’t even think there was a ‘new virus’ from a lab. He was one of the first sources I found in early 2020 making the case that it WAS from the lab. I think it was from him that I found “NerdHasPower” in which the lab origins were proven in my mind.
I've examined all the available CDC surveillance data on ILI, and a bunch of available state-level data. Even built a custom predictive model that out-performed a bunch of "cutting-edge" machine-learning garbage... long story. This was in 2016... happy to share if you're interested. Anyway, we do see a few prior odd dislocations in seasonality, the biggest being H1N1. But I've never seen a skipped season like this before.
Yikes. That chart comparing 2020 and 2022 CDC specimen testing for flu looks exactly like they were told to "stop testing for flu" and not because "there's no further reason to test for flu."
Nice work. Right now I'm trying to track which experimental vaccines were given and what pathogen(s) were in them in 1918, as compared to what was found in the 1980s study of what people had actually had died from. What we know from the study, it was a bacterial pneumonia and the CDC with Fauci as one of the co-authors tried to cover this up by saying it was a bacterial induced virus that was the real killer. They obviously don't want a correlative link between the vaccines given to all the military personnel at induction and the specific bacteria in the experimental vaccines and the influenza and pneumonia they are causing. Then we need to check with what the WHO is approving every year for the annual influenza vaccines and see if there is any correlation there as well.
Between the childhood, travel, war and flu vaccines Big pharma and the Fasci as I like to call them, those who make their living selling goods and services to the various Governments and NGOs, have literally made a fortune, of course placing even the liabilities for any harm they do, also on the taxpayers. (YJCMTSU). You Just Can't Make This Shit Up, yet there are literally tons of historical data and evidence now that proves it's the vaccines and our bodies naturally ability to shed the various pathogens and infect others. You know they've knew about this for decades, because they have tried so very very hard to cover it up.
Under all the fascist programs, they have now bankrupted much of the civilian populations around the world, with all their centralized planning by the central bankers and NGOs, like the U.N. and NATO that the fiat currency system is now effectively broken and they are trying to implement a period of social chaos, so they can have time to implement their proposed CBDCs. This appears to be their goals, and I am of the opinion that they will not be able to pull this off without substantial pushback from the people. We've seen their experiments with Austria, Australia and now Canada with gun control, as well as the push in the U.S. The problem with CBDCs is pricing just like the fiats and they don't want a bi-metallic system because of the restrictions it placing on their agendas. We are in the war(s) of our lives and even truth is part of it.
Just some loose thoughts since there's nothing to critique about your overall approach to the topic -
Flu was never assumed to be annual before PCR. If you told any flu researcher before PCR that flu "mysteriously" disappeared for two years, they would say, "What do you mean, mysterious?" Here is Andrewes in 1953, 20 years after helping to nurse the first human-to-ferret passage: "The behaviour of influenza has seemed so erratic as regards its occurrence in both time and space that it has fascinated epidemiologists for many years. ... Since about 1933 influenza A has come to many countries in out- breaks every two or three years, with a tendency as time has passed for the peaks to come less frequently and to attain lesser heights." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2554199/ In the pre-PCR way of thinking, if it wasn't an "epidemic" year (lots of observed simultaneous flu), you weren't likely to succeed in passaging anything to ferret / egg and the virus wasn't actually around.
Even up to the 90s it was understood that flu is ephemeral and strange. In fact viral interference (one virus boosts cellular anti-viral immunity) was a dominant theory for why strains sporadically die out. Webster, to whom more understanding about flu is owed than any other human: "Why Do Some Strains Die Out? ... The reasons for the sudden disappearance of previously circulating human strains are unknown. ... Virus disappearance may be explained by a mechanism for systematic interference between competing strains; i.e., infection with one subtype of virus elicits cross-protection against a different subtype." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC372859/
Since viruses reflect network effects it wouldn't matter if some vulnerables still exist. The raising of the alarm in the population after one virus makes a break-in leaves the other virus unable to do same. Meanwhile sporadic transmission may still occur but not observed simultaneous illness as with an "epidemic" year.
So the only mystery in 2020/21 is why PCR stopped lighting up, not why the virus as an agent of observed waves of illness disappeared.
This might all lend to a theory of a "non-PCR-targeted" release but the argument against that is, see above, flu = mysterious. I don't think anyone is capable of intentionally displacing PCR-targeted flu with a non-target strain because we don't even understand how the flu's genes survive from one wave to the next. It is like if trees somehow grew without seeds - then we obviously wouldn't have a clue how to intentionally "seed" a different tree.
RE testing rate changes, a review was recently published https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.31.22273236v5 - a pretty big drop in tests in the US, aligning with anecdotes, but not elsewhere.
Triple spikes and "immunology 101 wave" defiance are not so strange for flu. The arrival of H3N2 in UK in 1968 was very lumpy https://unglossed.substack.com/i/44779108/case-study-influenza-uk 2018/19 isn't actually that different from 19/20 in shape, just has a hump in the place of the third spike, which still defies wave.
So overall I think the conservative approach to the "flu mystery" is to realize that flu has always been a mystery.
RE the excess deaths in Australia, percentage will make things a bit wonky since baseline is getting lower in Regular Human Winter and higher in Regular Human Summer.
In summer Jan 2020 I had an a weird case of something. I was freezing using a hot pack but it was summer. I went to a Dr thinking could it be Covid. Couldn’t get a test because I hadn’t been overseas. It wasn’t that bad, was a bit breathless. Ive had killer flu before, this wasn’t that.
We had a few sporadic outbreaks of Covid reported but we did close borders early, some people still got in.
I can say with certainty that Aus doesn’t really test for flu. I never had a flu test in my life, despite going to the Dr with bad flu like symptoms & even getting a puffer.
There is still the do not come to the Dr if you have flu symptoms here which was only bought in since Covid, so I highly doubt that Aus has accurate flu records.
Brazil got the “ Darwin “ flu in Dec 2021 as the WHO called it from here, which is our summer so there was definitely flu circulating.
Be aware that pneumonia is a disease process, not a specific pathogen. I listened to JC’s long podcast of a few weeks ago, and it struck me that he does not appreciate this fact. There are viral pneumonias, there are bacterial pneumonias, and there are viral pneumonias that have a secondary bacterial infection. This 3rd is what cause most influenza deaths.
There IS a different pathogen circulating, as the disease process with COVID has been a profound d inflammatory disease with associated clotting. The early pathology out of Italy in Feb-Mar 2020 did not show the typical signs of bacterial pneumonia. When Paul Marik began using Medrol (steroid for inflammation) & heparin (anticoagulant), AND didn’t use ventilators (which cause baro trauma - over-pressure - in the lungs), people got better. Ivermectin helps with multiple facets of this disease as well.
Spanish flu ... interesting idea. It would NOT surprise me that someone would engineer this. I will listen to some of your guests interviews & examine his evidence.
Here's yet another hypothesis, from a French statistician:
- There were both a SARS-Cov2 pandemic and a usual flu pandemic. (As well as all the usual respiratory viruses.) None of them was an unusual threat to health if they were given the usual medical attention, with early treatments, for instance.
- Lockdowns and official instructions such as "don't see a doctor if you have symptoms and only call an ambulance when you can't breathe" led normal flus and respiratory illnesses to aggravate and to kill many people who could have been cured if they had seen a doctor as usual.
- Hospitals needed to declare patients they received with any respiratorial symptoms as "Covid patients" because they got extra public fundings for Covid patients. (It was the case in France, was it the same in other Western countries?) Hence the apparent disappearance of the flu.
- As a conclusion, the *official response* to the pandemic (which very well may have been sincerely thought as the best they could do) was responsible for most of the extra deaths and made things *look like* there was a deadly pandemic going on, caused by only one respiratory virus, and other usual respiratory viruses had disappeared.
Novel flu would affect kids and young adults as well as the elderly. Plus we have all kinds of serological evidence showing there was a novel coronavirus circulating early in 2020 and test positivity for flu dropped as it should at end of the flu season. Lots of metagenomic sequencing was being conducted and would have picked up something as well
The treatment protocols for COVID caused many of the COVID deaths, and many were deaths caused by other diseases that were wrongly attributed to COVID
As to the lack of flu after the first wave, I think viral interference is very plausible. CDC denied this early on because they wanted to make a case it was masks and social distancing that was the reason, which is BS
Anyways, carry on
Steve, I'd like to point you to an article that I authored early in the pandemic and reissued with updates, demonstrating that virtually no one died of covid; virtually all deaths were due to malpractice (forbidding early treatment) and the jabs. e.g., ZERO deaths in Cambodia until the jabs came in, and far superior performance in malaria countries in general, due to HCQ. https://www.fittrimimmortal.com/blog/covid-statistical-hijinx
Just wondering, what if chemicals have been spread in the atmosphere instead. People would get sick easily and it would look like a pandemic. I think it's very easy to execute a chemical attack through air nowadays.
What matters whether covid, cold, or flu? Certainly not to the corporate medical complex and big pharma it's all U07.1 They care about the bottom line; they care about the almighty dollar. Further the narrative and fear at all costs. Saving lives is secondary. Early treatment be damned.
With a bogus covid test, being told we're sick when we have no symptoms, and telling people they can transmit a deadly disease without even knowing they have it, they have created the perfect fear mongering, money making machine. Print trillions to throw at the contrived, controlled, and captured, conspirators. Print trillions more to "bail out" those impacted by the conspiracy. Their blood money won't bring back the dead and injured.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=all+is+vanity&version=RSV
I'm glad you ask the difficult questions about details. Details matter.
"Pneumonia" means nothing in this context. It can be caused by a virus or bacteria. And doctors normally don't test for which one so that data is not available. I'm not sure but this might involve an invasive procedure to get a sample of sputum from the lungs.
My doctor told me 70% of bronchitis (not pneumonia) is viral in nature, and that's why I only ask her for something to treat the symptoms. If I go to the doctor for this my over the counter meds have not worked. I get lots of rest, drink lots of water, and take vitamins to support the immune system.
4! Remember P and I was changed to PIC to include Covid at the onset of the Plandemonium. This perfectly illustrates the rebranding of P and I into a new phantom menace backstopped by iatrogenocidal protocols and financially incentivized murder.
#pandemicbyfiat
Thinking outside of the box here. What testing mechanisms do all of those labs use for fluA/B? I know that PCR is basically looking for specific sequences in a sample based on an extremely specific primer. Is there a limited set of known primers used? Would it be possible for a govt/ngo funded lab to tweak a flu strain to replace the specific sequences that are tested for by all known labs intentionally such that the existing tests don’t pick them up? Then if that flu strain wins out, people still have flu (some comment said 40% of tests come back with unknown), but it doesn’t get recorded in the flu column because no test recognizes it and it can’t be traced back to your lab. It’s no secret that tons of orgs would love to engineer a virus that acts as a vaccine and are probably doing this, and many are doing gof. Would it not also make sense while you’re tweaking a virus to also take steps to make it evade current detection? All evidence I’ve seen points to the coof release being accidental because they didn’t even bother to remove specific markers from it that clearly show it was edited in a lab, because the “easy” edit areas are well known. What if the 2020 flu strain that won out was an exceedingly infectious (but not deadly) manmade virus that completed production where all the markers were removed, and then after a year it evolved/merged with other strains to resurface the hallmark sequences? Would be a pretty sneaky way to run a global test under the radar, where of course your testing methods look for your frankenvirus parts but everyone else is unaware and focused on coof.
Another idea is the flu strain the year before was mostly immunizing (whether manmade or not), then what flu escaped evolved to get past the new immunity two years later. Not married to this hypothesis, should be disprovable.
Okay, very interesting interview. The “zero flu” was also due to the cross reactivity on high-cycle test runs. 1918 re-release ... a new & updated remake of an old classic - sounds like Hollywood remaking movies. Wouldn’t surprise me.
The conflation of influenza (specific viral illness) & pneumonia (a “final common pathway” for infectious disease in the lungs) needs clarification. I honestly don’t pay much attention to databases as the sources are not necessarily trustworthy. I will have a look at this.
There definitely was some unique pathology with Covid. If the 1918 flu caused massive inflammation & clotting , it might look very much the same. The “pre-Covid influenza deaths” were far greater than I realized.
The entire narrative just gets more questionable. At least there is now widespread knowledge of antiviral properties of IVM, chloroquine derivatives, and other meds. And “awake” docs are much better prepared to ‘think through’ future diseases in the same way Marik, McCullough, Zelenko, Urso, and others have done.
I confess I was shocked that JC now doesn’t even think there was a ‘new virus’ from a lab. He was one of the first sources I found in early 2020 making the case that it WAS from the lab. I think it was from him that I found “NerdHasPower” in which the lab origins were proven in my mind.
I've examined all the available CDC surveillance data on ILI, and a bunch of available state-level data. Even built a custom predictive model that out-performed a bunch of "cutting-edge" machine-learning garbage... long story. This was in 2016... happy to share if you're interested. Anyway, we do see a few prior odd dislocations in seasonality, the biggest being H1N1. But I've never seen a skipped season like this before.
Yikes. That chart comparing 2020 and 2022 CDC specimen testing for flu looks exactly like they were told to "stop testing for flu" and not because "there's no further reason to test for flu."
Did flu jump, or was it pushed?
Such an excellent term, "cognitive dissonance shielding" Like learning "deja vu" or "anomie" Cool.