One by one, myths and lies propagated by the ruling elites about COVID-19 are falling like dominoes. What was supposed to be "misinformation" is the real deal.
The "wet market" theory, which never made sense, is turning out to be all wet. Major government agencies – the Energy Department and the FBI – now say that the virus "probably" leaked from China's Wuhan virology lab. It didn't come from a bat sandwich after all.
Likewise, the lockdowns imposed all over the country did not slow the pandemic but did enormous damage. A year ago, Johns Hopkins issued a meta-analysis stating, "[while] lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted."
We now know that natural immunity derived from infections is far superior to the so-called vaccines, which do not prevent either infection or transmission. The February edition of the liberal Lancet medical journal reviewed 65 studies, concluding that the vaccines lose effectiveness sooner than natural immunity.
Keep in mind the CDC and other health authorities dismissed natural immunity in favor of the vaccines for nearly two years.
"The Lancet study's vindication of natural immunity fits a pandemic pattern," wrote Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal. "The public-health clerisy rejects an argument that ostensibly threatens its authority; eventually it's forced to soften its position in the face of incontrovertible evidence; and yet not once does it acknowledge its opponents were right."
"When it comes to masking, the value of lockdowns, the value of the vaccine itself, adverse effects – if you look at the facts, it paints a picture totally different from what the government has been telling us over the last two years." (Columnist Robert Knight, in an interview with AFN)
The CDC owes an apology to the signers of the Great Barrington Declaration, not to mention the public. Released in October 2020 and now signed by nearly one million "infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists," the declaration recommends targeting shots to vulnerable people (elderly, underlying morbidities) and achieving herd immunity by allowing the healthy and young to get COVID as they would any other virus.
For this medically sound advice, the Barrington signers were slandered and canceled. On Oct. 8, 2020, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins sent an email to Anthony Fauci (pictured above), director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises," Collins wrote. "Is it underway?" A week later, Collins told the Washington Post, "This is a fringe component of epidemiology. This is not mainstream science. It's dangerous."
If the Barrington Declaration had been heeded, the pandemic may have ended far sooner, with many deaths avoided, including those from adverse reactions to the shots.
We've also learned that researchers never believed the vaccines would stop the COVID outbreak, just provide "early partial epidemic control."
We know this because Dr. Fauci signed on to a paper a few weeks ago for the journal Cell Host & Microbe, "Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenza viruses, and other respiratory viruses." The authors of the Jan. 11 paper acknowledge that, "Because these viruses generally do not elicit complete and durable protective immunity by themselves, they have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines."
Remember, the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots are experimental. They all got emergency authorization without long-term impact studies.
Yet Fauci aggressively pushed the Zero Covid narrative that natural immunity was a myth and that millions would die if we did not all get the shots. This led to school closings and unconstitutional and destructive mandates, including the expulsion of 8,000 people serving in the armed forces who refused the shots.
In November 2021, Fauci told CBS that Republicans who disagreed with him are "really criticizing science, because I represent science. That's dangerous." So is lockstep obedience to ruling elites.
The vaccines have been a huge success for some. Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have racked up tens of billions of dollars and are now pushing the shots on infants.
Another big winner is Democrats, who leveraged fear of COVID into loosening election laws, mailing out millions of ballots and engaging in ballot harvesting, the easiest path to vote fraud. The other big winner is China, which lied about the virus and let it travel all over the world via flights out of Wuhan in 2019 and 2020. Meanwhile, China monopolized access to pandemic equipment and sold literally trillions of masks while dealing a crippling blow to America's economy.
Speaking of masks, a meta-analysis published in the prestigious Cochrane Review on January 30 concluded that masks "make little to no difference" in preventing transmission of COVID and other viruses.
On Feb. 22, The New York Times ran Bret Stephens' column on the Cochrane findings entitled, "The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?" Earlier, they would have accused him of being a "science denier."
The ruling elites and their media misled us about everything from the virus's origin to the efficacy of masks, vaccines, lockdowns, school closings and alternative treatments. The government pressured Twitter, Facebook and other social media to throttle dissent, labeling it "misinformation." Facebook is still doing it.
Still, when even the far-left New York Times feels the need to let some light shine through the woke darkness, a new day may be dawning.
Perhaps next they'll permit a closer look at climate "science."
This article appeared originally here.
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