Of Course The COVID Response Was A Disaster
NOBODY Was Paying Any Attention To The Data At Hand.
There are times when the proper response to some of the many post-mortems of the COVID Pandemic Panic needs to be “No sh*t, Dick Tracy!”
Indeed, that is the proper response to the After Action Review of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
It is apparent from the very beginning of the report that the Subcommittee was the work of either a bunch of dunces or a bunch of complete information naifs who had done exactly zero research into what data was actually known at the time the COVID Pandemic Panic was being propagandized by the corporate media. The report’s introduction makes that clear:
No, COVID-19 was not “novel”. It was and is a coronavirus. That means that these supposed “brightest scientists and medical experts” were not “learning on the job”, they were pointedly—and some would say deliberately—ignoring what they had already learned.
Everything that unfolded during the Pandemic Panic—every single bloody thing—can be directly traced to this omission. All the “mistakes”, all the lunacy, all the economic damage, all the societal damage, and absolutely all of the deaths can be attributed to this singular and appallingly epic failure.
We can dispense easily with the notion that COVID-19 was in some way “novel”, even the “experts” at the National Institute Of Allergies And Infectious Diseases acknowledge this:
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses in humans. However, three coronaviruses have caused more serious and fatal disease in people: SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which emerged in November 2002 and causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which emerged in 2012 and causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS); and SARS-CoV-2, which emerged in 2019 and causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Building on previous research on SARS and MERS, NIAID scientists and NIAID-supported researchers mobilized quickly to develop COVID-19 therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics. Researchers continue to conduct basic research to understand how coronaviruses infect cells and causes disease, and what interventions can detect, prevent and stop the spread of disease.
Recognize what folks say when they call something “novel”—they mean it’s new, it’s different, it has not been seen before. That is certainly the meaning we find when we consult Merriam-Webster:
1 a: new and not resembling something formerly known or used
b: not previously identified
2: original or striking especially in conception or style
If COVID-19 was “novel”, then there could be no “previous research” upon which to base either treatments or research or public health responses.
NIAID is asserting explicitly that SARS-CoV-2, and its associated disease COVID-19, is anything but “novel”. It’s a coronavirus, one of a family of viruses, several of which are known to cause infectious respiratory disease in humans.
Given that, then the question which is not asked by the Subcommittee—and should have been—is that why were these prior building blocks of research and data accumulation overlooked, ignored, or disregarded?
Certainly Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute has his conclusion about the Pandemic Panic and the “response” which followed:
This was never really a public health response. That was only the cover story. This was a coup against science and against democracy, for purposes of industrial and political reset, not just in one nation but all nations at once. I get it: that is an ominous statement and hard to wrap one’s brain around the whole of it. In completely ignoring this point, the Select Subcommittee has missed the forest for the trees.
There is really no faulting that conclusion, although even Jeffrey Tucker fails to grasp the degree to which the information which was available to everyone was being cast aside.
The absolute empirical unvarnished truth about the Pandemic Panic was that it was from the start a propaganda exercise in corporate media based on a profound ignorance—almost certainly a willful ignorance—of the data at hand.
I know this because I wrote about much of that data at the time.
Specifically:
There was clear evidence in February 2020 that the data coming out of China was tainted.
There was clear evidence that same month that COVID’s severity outside of China was nowhere near what was being reported inside of China.
It was acknowledged in March 2020 even in the corporate media that the economic consequences of the lockdowns would be beyond ginormous.
It was apparent as well that the “experts” completely disregarded the impacts of lockdown and the manufactured recession it created on mortality.
By April 2020 it was apparent that the “official” COVID mortality stats were both tainted and being constantly “revised” (fudged).
When the mask mandates were rolled out in April 2020, they went against a full DECADE of established peer-reviewed research into universal masking as a way to mitigate the spread of infectious respiratory disease (i.e., COVID).
It was readily apparent as well that the mass testing imposed worldwide was completely ineffective at either tracking or helping contain the spread of the virus.
Even before the mRNA inoculations were implemented, the CDC’s own mortality data showed that COVID was not the deadly disease it was made out to be.
As with all of my work, everything contained in these articles from 2020 used publicly available data that literally anyone could access. No special credentials were needed. All of this data is “open source”, as it were.
If I had it then, all the “brightest scientists and medical experts” had it as well. They had all of this data and presumably much, much, more, and yet we must still be saddled with this ludicrous lie that COVID-19 was somehow a “novel” phenomenon?
No.
Like Jeffrey Tucker, I take a dim view of any government report that puts down government failures as being largely a lack of proper communication and coordination.
Everyone in the corporate world knows that when a committee reduces all problems to “communication and coordination” you are being fed a load of bull.
However, there is an aspect to the issue of communication and coordination that warrants some discussion: the imperative of being intentional and thorough with communication and coordination in any crisis event.
Having spent a quarter-century in information technology, my work as a Voice and Data Network Engineer put me in the center of a number of crises of various degrees of severity: server crashes, network outages, denial-of-service attacks, and even severe weather events such as the aftermath of major hurricanes. I have had to address not only coordinating a variety of resources to resolve the issues at hand, but I have also had to brief a number of different stakeholders in the affected organizations.
I speak from experience, therefore, when I say that in any crisis, it is imperative that one follows the data. It is imperative to stay abreast of what is happening and what has changed.
When it comes to grappling with the pandemic disease COVID-19, known colloquially as "coronavirus", our best weapon remains information. The more we know about the disease, what it can do, and where it is going, the better we can prepare, marshal resources, and develop action plans. Priority number one must always be "gather more data", and priority number two must always be "share all data."
Priority number three must always be "keep data current."
Most crises are dynamic. Information changes as events unfold. There is no assurance that what is known on one day will be known on the next. What is true today may not be true tomorrow. It is vital to adapt to changing data, revising our understanding of events as they unfold.
As my writings cited above demonstrate, following the data simply was never done. Quite the contrary, data was largely disregarded. This was glaringly apparent with the obsession over COVID testing, which completely ignored the influenza surveillance system that had been used for years to monitor seasonal influenza.
While keeping current on the available data—all of the available data—is an imperative in crisis communications, that this was not done during the Pandemic Panic is what precipitates all of the lunatic actions that followed. Had the “experts” in and out of government been paying attention to the data that was emerging from elsewhere in the world, it would have been apparent that lockdowns would not work. They failed in China and in Italy before they had a chance to fail here in the United States, which means that the “experts” here in the United States had the opportunity to know long before they tried the lunacy of lockdowns that it was not going to work.
There is no denial that the lockdowns were a failure. That question was laid to rest in 2022.
Remember, my work is done using publicly available information. If I have the data, everyone has the data. If I could see from that data that the lockdowns were a failure everyone could study that same data and reach that same conclusion.
As the lockdowns were both not effective and not needed, there was never any need to take testing and approval shortcuts with the mRNA inoculations. The “emergency” under which Emergency Use Authorization was used to rush the shots into use didn’t actually exist.
More importantly, the publicly available information at the time made it absolutely clear that the “emergency” did not exist.
There was no need to ignore the many red flags and warning signs that emerged as soon as the mRNA inoculations were pushed into wide use.
Nor is there any doubt that ignoring those red flags caused people to suffer needlessly.
As many commentators have pointed out, “mistakes were not made”. We know that in at least some regards the government outright lied, as the CDC did when it came to their commitment to safety monitoring of the mRNA inoculations.
Certainly virtually everyone in government lied about the ability of the mRNA inoculations to actually halt the spread of the virus.
Yet whether someone was lying or guilty of simple oversight, the reality remains that the publicly available data proved both that there were many—far too many—red flags regarding the inoculations and that there was no need for such frenetic urgency as to circumvent the usual rounds of safety and other testing.
Governments everywhere bear considerable responsibility for ignoring the data. So, too, does corporate media. They created the Pandemic Panic Narrative which became the justification for all of the government excesses within the lunacy known as a “COVID-19 response”. Their “reporting” was pure propaganda, and demonstrably pure propaganda.
This is why I say often “Trust nothing. Verify everything.” If there is one lesson that must be learned from the COVID Pandemic Panic it is that we dare not rely much if at all on others to inform us about anything that is happening in the world.
Doing one’s own research and verifying data for one’s self is the only way to avoid being misled by others. Doing one’s own research is how lies are exposed. Doing one’s own research is the only way to truly be certain about anything. That has always been the case, and the COVID Pandemic Panic is but an extended and extremely brutal proof.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic took 500+ pages to conclude that the government’s response to the Pandemic Panic was a monumental disaster. That should have been an easy conclusion to reach. With the government’s complete disregard of the available data regarding COVID-19, there was never any way the government’s response was going to be anything but a disaster.
Failure was the only possible outcome.
What I hope people conclude from all of the many post-mortems about COVID-19 and the governmental responses to it is to always look past narratives—even one’s own preferred narratives—and look objectively at the objective data about anything. Always follow the data and disregard the narrative.
Trust nothing. Verify everything.
"Trust nothing. Verify everything."
Excellent, Mr. Kust, I suspect many have taken that to heart (no pun intended).
Many of us already knew it was coming and it was planned. The systems that they set up like the VAERS system was set up for failure. I spoke with many doctors that were so frustrated by it closing out before they can put the data in and then when they went back in the data wasn’t saved so there’s no way to stop putting in the data so we will never know.
The scientist that created the mRNA disruptor said it wasn’t even for humans, but then why did they create it? Our government has been lying to us and poisoning us since the very beginning this is nothing new. You can look up the data- it’s everywhere.
I prefer underground sources, including some which are military Intel. They will tell you the truth and it’s pretty bad.
It was an agenda to see how the American people would respond and for de-population.
Basically premeditated murder.
It came out when I worked for the VA so I have a government document that says I am 100% exempt from all “vaccines” and wearing a mask. And this wasn’t a vaccine. It was biochemical warfare. The masses fell for it out of fear. They had people right where they wanted them.
There’s so much to say about this crap but you did a very good job in your article and of course all the examples that you posted as well.
And there’s another one coming shortly actually heard about one developed at the University of North Carolina. It’s a three in one. Coronavirus, bird flu, and HIV. Not sure how they’re gonna get that out. That may be part of what they’re spraying overhead along with aluminum and everything else in the name of climate change.
In Florida they were bottles that were found that had HIV in them and there was a lot of transparency and I posted the link to what our surgeon general said about the boosters and what they’re doing now and I’ll post it below.
I just cannot fathom anyone voluntarily going and getting a “vaccine” whether it’s flu, pneumonia, and what they call Covid because the mRNA has been put into all of them. At this point they’re actually putting it into our food They started with lettuce. I know it’s been over a year ago and they announced it on TV. They want to make sure every single person gets this crap in their bodies. If that doesn’t throw a red flag to somebody they are actually ….
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