COVID - Pandemic, Phenomenon, Revelation
Health Info Study with thoughts and philosophy - Part 2 of 4
You can read Part 1 here.
This is the first post of 2023, so please allow me to give you my best wishes for a youthful and triumphant year, filled with joy and achievement.
PART 2
Society is ill
However, I strongly believe the most serious illness plaguing the world is not the flu or any virus. We have lost the path to humanity, to wisdom, to compassion. We have lost respect for the dignity of life.
I believe one of the most positive outcomes of the Covid pandemic, will be a deep realization of this truth by a great number of people. Do you ever think about this? Have any of your views about life and the world started changing yet?
Because society is very ill and now this shows; in an ugly way. It’s not much use keeping our head in the sand. The ripples of propaganda, division, censorship and loss of freedom come and kick you in the butt. There is no denying it. It’s out there in plain sight, if you want to see it, you can easily do so. All you have to do is get your information from a variety of sources, and not only mass media.
Having media and governments repeating the same things until they become slogans, is a clear indication of an agenda. It’s indoctrination. It’s propaganda. It is arguable that this has always been there, in various forms, but the extent of this strategy has surely changed over the years. I find it to have reached extreme levels. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Governments are now using experts of behavioral science, much like marketing companies, to influence the public. I seriously question the morality of this strategy, and I will dedicate a separate article to this. One thing I would like to add here though. If you become aware of the dubious nature of someone’s intentions, you immediately question their actions, and are therefore more protected against such practices. [5]
In many countries, we have seen a great division between people of all walks of life. A number of people have chosen to follow the guidelines that were imposed and have faith in them. [Faith is a key word here.] And another number of people have chosen to follow loosely and mainly question them. Not following was not an option, they were all imposed, you had no say in this. You could not ask for schools to open or to not wear a mask. But you could question it, especially if you found out that the ‘science’ behind it is not so robust.
This created a chasm between those who were for the narrative, and those who were dissidents. There were people rather skeptical, but because of the fear, the emotionally electrified atmosphere and the prolonged constriction by the extreme measures, this division was intensified.
I believe those aligned with the narrative are enraged because of the constant exposure to a fear-inducing line of thought, and those who disagree with the narrative are enraged because they believe they are wronged by having to give up so much relative freedom for no sound reason. It’s only logical. If you believe a person not wearing a mask is a public enemy, you get angry when he’s around. And if you believe Covid is not half as deadly as presented, and that masks don’t work, seeing your 5-year-old put on a muzzle to go to school is infuriating.
But when everyone gets angry at others because of how they feel about a certain thing, how can you have dialogue? How can you have a decent discussion with someone who is intolerant and emotionally compromised? That’s a big issue, and it used to happen mostly with relatives at gatherings, but now it’s all over the place. But my focus here is elsewhere. What I would like to point out is that the authorities only served to pour oil on the fire, by directly and intentionally shaming and discriminating against those that refuse to get vaccinated.
This method is highly effective, it is called ‘divide and conquer’. You convince half the people that the other half are against them. That’s all it takes. Then these two groups take it from there. They fight each other and lose unity. The more scared they are, the more fiercely they will fight. The issue of whether the initial reason is even real, is no longer relevant. If you don’t like what a group of dissidents are saying, because what they say is endangering your purposes, just make them look like the enemy. [6]
For instance, as has been blatantly admitted, the purpose of several governments and institutions is to discourage vaccine hesitancy. At all costs! So, when mRNA vaccine skeptics speak out, these governments, via well-paid PR firms who operate in social media, create targeted campaigns to discredit them, silence them, and basically make them look like a minority of ‘conspiracy theorists’, ‘quacks’, ‘anti-vaxxers’ and the like. So by putting such labels on them, they become the target.
There are several excellent sources of information on this subject and now, almost three years after the start of the pandemic, it has been clearly shown that such efforts have been coordinated, with public money. Governments have used billions to keep these campaigns going. This, to my humble opinion, is rather sick.
Conspiracy or Truth
Some of the recent slogans have been phrases like ‘safe and effective’, ‘stay safe’, and of course ‘follow the science’. In this section I will explain why all these were just methods of coercion that, together with fear, become extremely effective.
Ask yourself an honest question: Do you feel that you are so much lacking in knowledge, intelligence and self-preservation, that you need someone to tell you 100 times a day that you have to be careful?
And another question: If it came to your attention that all this fear and nearly psychotic hammering are imposed over an event that has been bloated way out of proportion intentionally, how would you react?
If you don’t immediately feel that you are threatened, there is probably a reason. If you think back to a few years ago, when other ‘pandemics’ were declared, like swine-flu, the WHO and others initiated a tactic of scaring the public, but it only worked in certain developed countries, where people rushed to get the vaccine, only to later find out it was a hoax. Billions of vaccine doses were bought internationally, only to be destroyed a bit later.
According to my findings, in order to ‘protect the people’, the WHO changed the definitions of ‘pandemic’ and ‘vaccine’ to include all that was required to bloat Covid out of proportion. [7]
Covid IFR (infection fatality rate) was unimaginably overrated. A virus infection fatality of 3% is extremely high. It turns out that the actual fatality is even lower than the common flu. Professor Ioannidis has done great work exposing this in the medical literature, but this information is deeply buried so as not to be seen by many people.
It is very interesting to note that when you ask people around you how many lost a relative FROM Covid, and not WITH Covid, they will either not know, or they will say they died with Covid. I have several examples of people I accidentally met and talked with, and almost all admitted that their relatives passed away from bacterial infections in the hospital, but having however been tested positive with a PCR method.
The method of testing has been discredited several times as well. PCR is not a valid indicator of having an active infection. The authorities have used a very big number of cycles, which has a very high percentage of false positives. This has even been pointed out by the WHO, but there has been no change. The importance of this is crucial though.
When hospitals label a patient as a covid case because he or she tested positive, when this person dies they are counted as a Covid death. But this patient may have had no respiratory symptoms whatsoever. In fact, most cases were people who died of trauma (accidents), heart failure, cancer, and other ailments. Ergo, when your television ‘experts’ told you that today one hundred people died of the new virus, it may actually be two or three. That, as you can understand, is a major overstatement of both cases and fatality.
Maybe you should ask yourself, ‘why this happens?’ Are those experts really that uninformed? And why do other experts support the above mentioned view, that is, that of severe overestimation? I believe the former have been told to do so, and that is what they keep on doing. The latter have been vilified and discredited. The former have been given more money and high positions. Do you wonder why this is so?
One way to figure out what is going on is to follow the money. For example, in the US, hospitals got a very big amount of money for each covid patient. I don’t know about elsewhere, but it has come to my attention that this kind of motive has been introduced in many parts of the world, and it definitely makes hospitals overestimate covid cases. But why would the government give such a motive? On the outside, it appears that this would support the overcrowded hospitals to cope with increased costs. However, at least here in Greece, the government has done almost nothing to essentially support this system of care, either with personnel, intensive care units, or anything else. So it doesn’t make sense.
Another way to follow the money is to see who finances the WHO, the FDA, and other such agencies and organizations. I believe you will not be entirely surprised if I told you that the facts show this financing comes primarily from Big Pharma (the bio-pharmaceutical complex). This is past lobbying. This is a complex web of companies and institutions that are used to indirectly use these organizations to reach their goals. And the goal of Big Pharma is to make money, not make people healthy.
For those unfamiliar with this field, you should know that there is an equally complex web of institutions that are used to regulate medical schools in universities, private medical research publication firms, and practically almost every single aspect of the medical profession. [8] [9]
Pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer have been made to pay unimaginable amounts of money for fraud. Yet somehow very few people know this. If you trust your government to trust them for your wellbeing, maybe you should look at it from this angle as well. Do you think these huge money-making machines should self-regulate? Is this ethical? Is it even reasonable?
Maybe what you are thinking right now is, ‘if this is really the case, how did we arrive here?’
Many have supported the idea that there is a global cabal of elitist, extremely rich individuals and families, that wish to dominate the world with their power, and hence are attempting to impose on us a global coup d’état, where the population shrinks significantly and the remaining people remain financially enslaved. This is not a very far-fetched idea, especially if you delve into the intricate relationships between powerful people in the last century or two.
This view is gaining momentum, in fact, because the WEF, a private organization headed by unelected people is increasingly taking part in the formulation of policy about practically all aspects of life on earth, including health and the environment. In their website, they boast that they have ‘penetrated the cabinets’, through their ‘Global Leaders’ indoctrination programs, the graduates of which are now leading ministers or prime ministers of countries around the world. For example, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merckel, Vladimir Putin, are all graduates of this program. [10] [11] [12]
Others support the idea that this is pure nonsense, and people just make mistakes all the time because they lack wisdom and are devoured by greed and foolishness. And that wars are just a natural thing because people fight all the time over resources; or because of big egos and anger. In fact, this is a keen insight into the human predicament. However, it is arguable that it can be an overly simple way to discern the truth about such people who have been specifically trained to deceive, coerce and do almost anything to advance a certain agenda.
Then again, trying to unravel such intricate methods, in my experience, can be a daunting exercise, much like trying to understand how the human body works. Millions of scientists have worked for decades to explain it, and still the great ones believe the discovery is in its baby stages. The human psyche is the same. It has endless depth and breadth. You can never truly understand what’s in a person’s heart or mind if you don’t have sincere dialogue with them.
Maybe the answer lies somewhere in between, what do you think? I would like to discuss the philosophy of the Middle Way in another article, because I have found it to be very deserving of urgent attention, especially if you want to engage in sincere dialogue about any subject. And oh, brother do we need more dialogue!
Extreme or oversimplified views tend to be on the wrong side. On the other hand, several conspiracy theories of the past have turned out to be true, although at the time unbelievable at best. And, several very simple explanations of phenomena have turned out to be true as well, while experts have elaborately tried to explain them but have failed. [13]
But all this kind of thinking is driving us away from what is most important. These are workings of the mind, and the mind is a great tool. But it is the heart that is important.
I believe we should be primarily concerned with how to live daily with a heart full of gratitude, with a heart that is strong and undaunted in the face of struggle or evil. I feel we need to speak frankly about what’s in our minds, and have true dialogue with each other. By putting effort into supporting others to overcome their obstacles, we gain perspective over our own problems, and our focus turns to a positive aspect. Our ego shrinks and our heart is filled with joy.
This kind of attitude is heart-warming. It is filled with the courage of going close to the person in front of you with the intention to give. It is filled with the compassion to try and understand the other person’s heart, and do everything in your power to impart joy and courage. And it has the power to cultivate friendship. Then friendship cultivates trust. Ultimately, trust cultivates peace.
Isn’t that what we all want deep inside? Do you not aspire to a peaceful coexistence where everyone can shine in their own unique way? Do you not set your heart on a truly healthy and joyful life full of respect, creativity and growth? Of course you do. It’s in our nature.
Nevertheless, we are often swayed by delusions, attachment, sentimentality, selfish impulses, and we hence produce negative causes. The universal law of cause and effect is unchanging and relentless. What you give is what you get. As a consequence, we should always be aware of what we are doing and why.
This leads me to believe that if you get too caught up with the superficial aspect of everyday things, you get sucked in the cyclone of negativity in the news, or the natural high of strong emotion, or the empty aspirations of fame and fortune, or so many other things that distract you from what really matters.
I believe that this is the reason why we need philosophy. For example, Plato believed that a democracy is not fruitful if not both ruler and subjects are actively engaged in the pursuit of truth through philosophy. Without asking yourself why you are here, what is your ultimate purpose in life, what is happiness, what is death, how can you possibly overcome your shortcomings to create an environment of true respect for the dignity and magnificent potential of each and every person?
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In the following days I will post Part 3
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With deep respect
Martinos
[1] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/twitter-files-censorship-government-collusion
[2] https://www.globalresearch.ca/silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works/5793325
[3] https://www.hartgroup.org/state-sponsored-behavioural-science/
[4] https://brownstone.org/articles/they-thought-they-were-free/
[6] https://brownstone.org/articles/censorship-and-defamation-weapons-of-control/
[12] https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-economic-forum-adviser-claims-planet-no-longer-needs-vast-majority-population/5790127