“We Don’t Need No stinkin’ Conspiracies”
There are and have been many conspiracies circulating, if not outright misinformation deliberately distributed to mislead and inflame. It is such that it is difficult to know what is real and true but worse, there are people who wish to dismiss the cries of tens of millions of people who are legitimately outraged. How can these conspiracy-mongers possibly be legitimate? Well... where do we begin? A somewhat non-arbitrary starting point would be…
It is not a conspiracy, but a known fact, that there was community spread of COVID in the US at least as early as December of 2019. It is not a conspiracy, but a known fact, that while COVID was spreading unchecked and undetected in the US, the Democrat party thought it would be a great idea to focus the government attention on impeaching Trump, knowing full well that the impeachment would go nowhere. This is not hyperbole; it is what actually happened.
It is not a conspiracy, but a known fact, that on Jan 14th, China assured the WHO that they “have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus” The WHO transmitted this lie, and the CDC acted on that information, and anyway, our government could not double check the CDC’s work since they were busy ‘acquitting’ Trump at the time.
It is not a conspiracy, but an indisputable fact, that the CDC set about creating a test for the coronavirus. The CDC was the only ones even ALLOWED to make a test. A couple of weeks later, the ‘experts’ at the CDC admitted that their test totally SUCKED. It then took a few more weeks for the FDA to allow local and private laboratories to make their own tests which, not surprisingly, actually WORKED.
It is not a conspiracy, but a fact, that COVID was spreading and killing, unchecked, throughout all of January and February. We did not know it empirically because we had no test, but there is no question it was happening. Fact: There was no panic or hyper-ventilating.
It is not a conspiracy, but a fact, that we were told that there was no way we could prevent or eradicate COVID because SCIENCE! so instead our goal should be to ‘flatten the curve.’ It is an undeniable fact that “Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread” was an actual thing.
It is a known fact, both then and now, that the people most vulnerable to COVID were the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. Despite knowing this, it is a fact that our ‘leaders’ moved to shut down the entire economy, wherever and whenever they could, to the fullest extent they could get away with.
So it is the case that this actually happened: shortly after the ‘stay at home’ orders went into effect, these turned into long term regional shutdowns, with entirely different rationales. That is, it is an actual fact that they LIED about their goals and intentions.
It is an absolute fact that, at this time, the SCIENTISTS declared that masks DID NOT WORK for community use.
This really took place: tens and tens of millions of people lost their income virtually overnight. Schools closed. Businesses shuttered. People were actually told they couldn’t go outside in some places. This is not a conspiracy. This happened.
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In May, as various governors had their emergency orders expire, it is actually the case that these governors, moving the goal posts yet again, put forth criteria for re-opening that had the actual effect of justifying stay at home orders indefinitely. Americans around the country were outraged, and began protesting the loss of their incomes, their livelihoods, their careers, the loss of freedoms beyond what the rule of law allowed for. These were roundly criticized as racist, selfish, bigots. That actually happened.
Also in May, Neil Ferguson, the man who insisted that the world was going to end unless we stayed in complete isolation (forever?), was caught sneaking off to have sex with his married lover.
Also around this time, these same governors sent old people, diagnosed with COVID, back into nursing homes and long term care facilities. It is a fact that the states that did this were also the states with the lion’s shares of deaths due to COVID.
It is a fact that governors continued to resort to emergency measures, even in defiance of their own state courts’ judgements. This was notably the case with Gov. Evers, who was only permitted 60 days, but has since extended his mask order all the way into January of 2021, and will probably extend it again; so far, the state legislature, which must be consulted after the 60 day period, has simply let the governor do whatever he wants.
Similar stories exist around the country. In other places, governors shut down churches, despite the clear protections of the first amendment and despite the fact that they (begrudgingly) allowed other, similar but secular, entities to re-open to some degree.
It is a fact that about this time, we were now told that MASKS for community use DEFINITELY worked, and YOU WOULD HAVE TO WEAR THEM. Because SCIENCE! And because YOU ARE A SELFISH BASTARD.
It is a fact that farmers were throwing out food and tilling under crops that were otherwise ready for harvest. It is a fact that by the end of May, the country was teetering on the brink of oblivion.
And then….
It is a fact that BLM and other left-wing organizations went wild with rioting, burning, and bloodshed. They murdered, they maimed. They scorched whole neighborhoods. It is a fact that our public health community argued that these ‘mostly peaceful protests’ were not only justified, but also not likely to spread COVID significantly, anyway.
It is a fact that our public health community, various politicos, and the Democrat party in general, determined that these protests were categorically different than the ones in May. Losing your livelihood, losing your home, and being reduced to a police state is not a worthy cause, but getting together to protest such things transmits COVID, while shouting “Black Lives Matter!” and mass orgies of destruction are totally worthy causes, but also mysteriously do NOT spread COVID.
These “mostly peaceful protests” continued throughout the summer, never (apparently) spreading COVID.
It is probably the case that except for the death of George Floyd, we would be in near total and permanent lock down even to this day. You could say that George Floyd, by his death, saved America, and perhaps the world, for it completely exposed the hypocrisy of the totalitarians.
It is a fact, not a conspiracy, that even as older people continued to be especially vulnerable to COVID, our ‘leaders’ and the so-called ‘smart’ people nonetheless wanted to keep schools shuttered. Where schools did not actually go completely virtual, they were often turned into veritable prison camps, with the kids forced to wear masks, compelled to eat alone, separated by glass partitions, told to follow the arrows in the hallways, and even had to wear masks while engaged in strenuous athletic activities. Needless to say, even if you were standing 100 yards away from anyone, say, at a cross country meet, you were still required to wear a mask.
Because SCIENCE.
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Setting aside the cost to the country, it is also a fact that there will be many deaths to come ‘downstream,’ as people who rely on the wealth and generosity of the United States for their very lives find neither.
It is not a conspiracy, but a fact, that the national debt has sky-rocketed, turning an already precarious situation into one where the ultimate economic collapse could happen literally at any moment. It would take just one tiny ‘run on the bank.’
I have listed all these things that are facts, not conspiracies, without reference to Trump. With only passing allusion to the fact that the LockDown Dictators have largely been Democrats. There are facts here, as well, which are not conspiracies—like, for example, it being a fact that various Democrat entities blatantly violated their own state’s laws when it came to the national election. They broke their own laws so flagrantly, without even invoking ‘conspiracies’ related to Dominion and so on, we can say that the Democrats stole the election. More than enough votes tied to these illegal voting measures exist to give the election to Trump. This is not a conspiracy, it is a fact. As a case in point, you may look at the matter of the ‘indefinitely confined’ in Wisconsin, where Wisconsin’s own supreme court ruled in favor of Trump that indeed, these many hundreds of thousands of votes were cast in violation of state law—and yet, the court refused to throw those votes out.
Much could be said about this aspect, all the more now that we’ve witnessed a very small portion of the Trump base, amounting to at most a few hundred people, engage in a ‘mostly peaceful protest’ at the capitol, become parleyed into a massive national suppression of at least 75,000,000 people. (In other words, if a few hundred conservatives go too far, millions of others should be punished as ‘insurrectionists,’ but if many thousands of liberals burn down city blocks and create autonomous zones, we are told that the few do not represent the many, and, well, what the liberals did they did for a good cause).
I am not going to dwell on this aspect of it, even though I can just as easily list a number of things that are DEFINITELY and UNDENIABLY real related to it, to make the point clear that there was more than enough reason from 2020 simply related to the handling of COVID that are DEFINITELY and UNDENIABLY NOT CONSPIRACIES, which are enough to ignite legitimate OUTRAGE within the populace.
We do not need conspiracies in order to be furious. What has really happened is enough to create a burning rage which will not dwindle simply because you berate it. And the more our tyrants push that point, the more desperate people will become. You cannot remove people’s businesses, force them to lose their homes because they can’t pay their mortgages, threaten the very food supply, and so on, and not reach a point where they LITERALLY have nothing else to lose.
It is often said that we get the government we deserve. True. But if the various governments continue to push, they may soon get the people THEY deserve.
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