{"id":2810,"date":"2020-12-29T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2022-04-12T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:03:47","slug":"coronavirus-truth-or-trickery-trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/coronavirus-truth-or-trickery-trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Truth or Trickery Trick or Treat?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all know a lot less than we think we knew when all this started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 29 December 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here we are, coming to the end of the first year of the Coronavirus Age and my first 9 months of being a coronavirus self-isolator. Time for reflection, or, as Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise the comedians used to say, \u201cWhat do you think of it so far?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1992 the alternative rock group REM produced a hit record the chorus of which went, \u201cIf you believed they put a man on the moon \u2026 If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question today is \u2018Do you believe that lockdowns, mask-wearing, social distancing and a worldwide coercive mass vaccination programme using vaccines which scientists and public health officials admit have been fast-tracked into existence and therefore, one presumes, not as rigorously tested as they would normally be, are manifestations of global humanitarianism or a totalitarian globalist agenda in which economic reset and culling the world\u2019s population are two primary objectives? And apropos of this, do you believe that the misinformation and disinformation at the centre of public confusion is just a byproduct of the gabbling information age in which we live, the bungling inefficiency of the ruling elites or a carefully and meticulously orchestrated web of deceit and deception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take my word for it: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is no doubt that the traction gained by conspiracy theories is beginning to make them look and sound a lot less infeasible than the obfuscating quagmire into which the official narrative, in its failure to provide conclusive answers or even address people’s fears, sinks a little every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, this is where I come to my What Do You Make About That? section ~ where I air alternative views to those presented in the authoritative script and leave you to make your own minds up: \u2018Trick or Treat\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronavirus Truth or Trickery Trick or Treat?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this video clip taken from the Brexit party\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> we learn that the Nightingale Hospital at the ExCel Centre in London has disappeared. It has been dismantled, which is a mite odd as we are told that London is supposedly locked down tight, sinking into the abyss of yet another onslaught of virus virulence and, moreover, threatened by a mutated strain of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This clip is taken from www.bitchute.com {link inactive as of 12\/04\/2022} an alternative social media platform to Facebook. It sees controversial investigative journalist Gemma O\u2019Doherty \u2018proving\u2019 that proof exists that coronavirus does not ~ in the most official sense ~ and, it would seem, that the efficacy of every preventative measure and precaution taken to limit the spread of this \u2018non-existent\u2019 disease has no basis in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a Gemma O\u2019Doherty\u2019 quote: “As part of our legal action we had been demanding the evidence that this virus actually exists [as well as] evidence that lockdowns actually have any impact on the spread of viruses; that facemasks are safe, and do deter the spread of viruses – They don\u2019t. No such studies exist; that social distancing is based in science – It isn’t. it’s made up; that contact tracing has any bearing on the spread of a virus – of course it doesn’t. This organisation here – is making it up as they go along.” \u2014 Gemma O’Doherty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put like that, it\u2019s a Buggeroota to be sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a piece that was aired via Russia\u2019s RT. RT is the first Russian 24\/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news.’ There are thousands of Covid strains, so this new scare is NOT a big deal, but politicians just love their new authoritarianism \u2014 RT Op-ed<\/a>.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article which claims that the British government \u2018know what they are doing\u2019 ~ \u201cOne should be wary of caricaturing Boris Johnson and the rest of his cronies perpetrating this crime on the people as \u2018Grinches\u2019. They are nothing so amusing or cuddly. They are far, far worse than that, and make no mistake about it, they know full well what they are doing.\u201d ~ is strangely reassuring for, from the average Britisher\u2019s viewpoint, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here we are, coming to the end of the first year of the Coronavirus Age. Whether you believe that what is happening in response to coronavirus is all part of a well-orchestrated plan by the usual neoliberal suspects or just another example of where are the world leaders we used to have when you need them, one thing is universally certain, we will all be glad to see the arse of 2020 well and truly booted out. But, as one life and soul of the party said to me recently, do you really think that things are going to get better in 2001?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is a tough one to be sure. If 2020 was the year in which a new disease was unleashed on us, and the year when all respect and trust in authority and the media died, 2021 looks set to become the year in which Big Pharma faces its greatest test of veracity and confidence since Charles Forde & Co beguiled us into believing that Bile Beans cured everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1979, The Police, no, not those ones who are told to look the other way when statues are being defaced and to arrest people for not eating Christmas dinner in a small room papered with old copies of The Independent<\/em> (They don\u2019t produce a print version anymore, do they. I wonder what their readers do for toilet paper?) \u2014The Police rock group released a record called ‘Message in a Bottle’. Perhaps, this is where the answer lies, and we will not know the truth for certain until it comes rolling in on the tide of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, to offset allegations of partisanship on my part to the anti-vaxxers cause, perpetual seekers of reassurance might do worse than to read this article: Covid-19 vaccines are safe. That doesn’t mean no side effects – STAT (statnews.com)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You pays your money and you takes your choice …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Image credit: Photo via <a href=”https:\/\/www.goodfreephotos.com\/”>Good Free Photos<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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