Look, billionaires are as useless to you and me as tits on a bull and a million times more dangerous.
If billionaires didn’t exist, that much sociopathic power congealed in one spot would not have led our societies quite so quickly into dystopia. We wouldn’t be lockdowning, we would be quarantining, like the sane society did before 2020. There wouldn’t be the stats served up to you as they are, all mushed together with other shit so that we can’t really ever be certain how many deaths this thing has caused. There wouldn’t be the assent to being locked down, as we are in Melbourne right now, for a authoritarian than authority. How we’ve all been so easily swindled that it’s got to this stage is going to behandful of positive PCR test results.
I know all of this has the feel and appearance of authority, the something we spend the rest of our lives thinking about.
Bill Gates has sent a quarter of a million Indian farmers to suicide in recent years. One reason for that is his control of their seed supply. Bill’s seeds are infertile, meaning you can't collect them from your harvest to plant next year like normal people. You have to buy more each year from Bill.
Guy’s a power-glutted psycho. He also has undue influence over the WHO due to the size of his donations. To his donations everywhere. Really, this is more like pandemic management if it was designed by some well-off kid who was born at the right time to capitalise technologically by being a really big fat anti-competition capitalist that gets pies thrown in his face:
As long as billionaires exist the human race is in a spot o' bother. And as long as we buy this idea that the science has somehow managed to avoid the dessication and hollowing out of any other areas the global capitalists have shat on and then left, then … well, I don’t quite understand how those gymnastics are still being performed in people’s heads.
I wrote the rest of this post back in February 2021, which was the last time we locked down, and over the same amount of cases. But we’ve been taught now not that this is insane, but that it means that we are circuit-breaking. Which is like a kind of sport. Australians are winning in the Corona Olympics. We are achieving this by being locked down like prisoners. That’s a prison term, lockdown. It’s not something you do in a sane society. But that time has passed now.
February 2021: Victoria has just come out a five-day lockdown, in the middle of summer, based on 13 positive results to a test that was never designed to be a diagnostic. (Apologies for linking to The Guardian, which used up Julian Assange for clicks then threw him under a bus for the establishment, but I’m lazy).
This lockdown would have been considered some kind of insanity before last year. But sshhh, ignore that thought if it bubbles up to a conscious level. Thoughts that were acceptable for you to have in 2019 are not so in 2021, along with a public health policy built up over 100 years and such general consensus as herd immunity. The science, if you’ve been taking notice, has been constantly changing since last March. Which is fine, ’cause that’s what science does. It’s just weird how all of the science now bends towards totalitarian outcomes and profits for the obesely wealthy. But oh well. Who are you, a lowly, pathetic non-expert, to question a situation that looks totally like some end-stage capitalism virus has had a PR consultancy attached to it round about April 2020 in order for the billionaire class to gain a $1 trillion profit and governments round the world to go draconian with the overwhelming consent of their liberal classes? What do you know? Sshhh.
Not one of the news services in this country reported that what we locked down over are positive PCR tests. I’m not sure how many Australians understand the difference but the media won’t be any help in increasing their knowledge. They will continue on as they started, reporting test results as absolute, unquestionable, undisputed positive covid-19 infections. Which they may be. Or they may not be. But it has been a year now, and the narrative of PCR=positive is so firmly entrenched that I can’t even see how it is going to start to be unravelled. The majority of people appear to believe that there are actually 13 cases of covid-19 infection in Melbourne.
Covid-19 is now a kind of sausage factory. A magic sausage factory, where sausages can be manufactured out of the air and no one will ever know.
At one end of the factory, you have the test which gives you the number of coronavirus cases swirling in your vicinity. This is the PCR test. It tested a pawpaw, a goat, and a quail positive to covid-19 in Tanzania, after its president secretly had some tests conducted at the national laboratory. A Portuguese court ruled it as unreliable and quarantining on its results as unlawful. Its use created a false outbreak of whooping cough in 2006: “Now, as they look back on the episode, epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists say the problem was that they placed too much faith in a quick and highly sensitive molecular test that led them astray.” Its creator stated it was never meant to be a diagnostic, which is probably because it can diagnose as active infections that were over inactive months ago. It can give false positives, diagnosing people who are well as infected. It misdiagnoses other things as covid-19: when you look at graphs they indicate that the flu has completely disappeared. Some people suggest that it’s because of our increased sanitation practices and distancing that the flu has been eradicated for the first time in history, but there is a more logical suggestion available than that.
Dan Andrews likes press conferences. Just don’t expect him to call one to announce that the one thing that frames the scale of the pandemic is unable to fulfil the role asked of it. Don’t hold your breath for that kind of press conference, the kind that is designed to help a citizen accurately assess the risk of a virus that, when you look at a five-year graph of worldwide deaths, hardly even registers.
In terms of sausage production, this is an excellent beginning. It means that there are vast numbers of sausages to be had, now that the ongoing flu market has been absorbed into covid , and for as long into the future as needed, in order to vaccinate the whole world.
(Don’t forget the fruit and veggies).
At the other end of the factory’s production process is those who die from covid-19. There are, apparently, many hundreds of thousands of them worldwide. However, the ways deaths have been measured from the beginning is the other part of the covid-19 production process that gives it such bang for its buck. Deaths aren’t numbered simply as those who died from covid-19 alone. They also include those who died with covid. Which is the vast, vast majority of people dying.
How does that play out on the ground? You can, say, have something else. Heart disease, say. You have a PCR test while in hospital with the disease that is actually killing you. The test comes back positive. You die two weeks later. Your death will be labelled a covid-19 death.
Do I believe there is a virus getting around called covid-19? Yes (although even here there’s conjecture about whether it’s even been sequenced or not). Do I believe it should be shutting down the world? Going on its IFR (the rate at which it kills people): no. Do I believe a narrative has grown up around this virus? Yes. Do I think it’s a manipulation of the data in order for some profiteering to be had? Sure, though I know it sounds paranoid.
In the UK alone, PCR testing is a £100 billion market. Maybe that’s why the WHO, when it reconfigured (again) it’s recommendations, declared that the PCR test is now NOT an effective diagnostic for asymptomatic cases, and advised that in that case there should be two tests administered. Not a different test, mind. Just double up.
Vaccinations are an even bigger market.
None of all of this makes much sense if you’re taking notice (much of the world, it appears, is willing to accept that their governments and their advisors are the most trustworthy institutions on the planet when it comes to covid-19. Don’t you find that odd? I mean, anyone who’s listening and who isn’t a blind stanner for their particular dessicated neoliberalised political party, knows that governments aren’t to be trusted. We know they don’t govern for us. We’ve seen it, over and over and over and over again. We’ve seen it in the way politicians who are calling for governments to govern for citizens instead of corporations are either absorbed into the machine in the case of Sanders or shat out as an anti-semite in the case of Corbyn.
The Corbyn smear is insanity for anyone who has a cursory understanding of who Jeremy Corbyn is and what he’s stood for for decades. But smears work. Just ask Julian Assange.
And fearmongering works too. It has people lining up to take experimental vaccines-that-aren’t-vaccines from big pharmaceutical companies with bad track records because a bunch of people in suits and a bunch of 22 year olds working for the corporatised media and a software designer who was in the right place at the right time tell you they’re fine.
None of this narrative makes much sense until you look at it as a class issue, which is what all those damn freaky socialists and anarchists banged on about until western labour parties turned neoliberal in the 1980s and inserted themselves and their professional managerial class in instead. This is the type of thing they were warning against: that our governmental leaders aren’t our leaders. That we are living in a corporatocracy that brings you the unified messages we’re now seeing; the insistence that you must panic; and the constantly changing recommendations over the last year that reek of the kinds of cognitive bias-producing scenarios that cause people to throw their hands up in the air and meekly let their governments tell them what to do.
What’s that? I sound paranoid? Well, sure. But you know what they say – that doesn’t mean they’re not out to get your cash and compliance. I sound like a conspiracy theoring right winger? Well, good on those people for speaking up, if that’s what they are. The left should hang its head. And anyway, whether all the people protesting the narrative are right wingers remains to be seen. The liberal class likes to label everyone who’s not a kowtower as a Nazi, after all. Questioners are a far bigger tent than the narrow minds of government believers can conceive, just like there are far more legitimate questions to be asked than those they follow insist you believe.
[Insert here the spot where the video YouTube took down would be if the same people didn’t own your media, your social media and your governments.]
We must at the very least understand that people like Bill, Jeff, and all the other arseholes that constitute this class, are not going to stop until we stop listening to them.
In closing, let me finish with a beloved quote, from the always-fresh-and-relevant Rumi, with a 21st century update from me:
Out beyond ideas of rightdoing or wrongdoing
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
But just before that there is
an adjacent field.
It contains a vat holding all the urine
Amazon workers pissed into bottles.
We're going to fire Jeff into it.
I'll meet you there first.