IT’S SIX years, almost to the day, since many of us first heard the word covid – but we certainly haven’t heard the last of it. I expect that any day now I will get an invitation to come for ‘my’ covid spring vaccination. Naturally I will ignore it as I have ignored all the others, but I seem unable to stop them from coming.
We now know that covid – or at least the fear of it and the restrictions that followed – caused a trail of economic destruction which may never be repaired. But for me, covid actually did a good turn as it enabled me finally to wake up as to what was going on all around me.
Until 2020 I had been bumbling along, writing articles and books, socialising, travelling and generally leading a reasonably pleasant life. But being forcibly locked down made me face up to issues that I had either skated over or never properly examined.
First of these revelations was that the modern medical profession is not out to cure patients, or even to treat them successfully. Rather, its main function is to prescribe pills derived from petrochemicals. Suddenly it seemed that the human race which had existed for hundreds of thousands of years could not survive a minute longer without a battery of pills by its bedside. The ideal is that everybody should be on medication from the cradle to the grave, and we are going some way toward achieving this.
It suddenly dawned on me that the pharmaceutical industry is all about profit and has little to do with health. If some prescription drugs are addictive, that is a good thing as it means people will be on them for life. So with the latest ‘miracle’ treatment, weight loss jabs, we are now told that once you start, you have to be on them for ever, otherwise all that weight you have lost will come back. That’s great news of course for the companies producing these therapeutics, as it means their profits will grow and grow.
As to vaccines, the scales here finally fell from my eyes. I had been sceptical of them for some years but had never properly researched their history. Now, with covid vaccines being hailed as saving millions of lives, I began to read books about the history of vaccination and learned that the dread diseases they were supposed to have cured were already on their way out long before any vaccine was developed.
Once again, vaccines are all about profits, vast profits.
At the same time I began to investigate climate change and learned that it, too, is pretty much a con and yet another way of diverting money from the poor to the rich.
The BBC, which I once revered, believing it to be the authoritative voice of the nation, was revealed to be a broadcaster of mass misinformation and employer of paedophiles and shysters to whom it paid vast sums of taxpayers’ money. Telly entertainments such as Strictly Come Dancing and I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here! are, I realised, today’s forms of bread and circuses, ways of sidetracking the public away from confronting more serious issues. The so-called scandals of Strictly are also a means to keep us focused on trivialities.
The mainstream media can no longer be relied on, if indeed they ever could, to tell the truth, but just spew out government propaganda to keep us in our place. Or they keep us distracted with lurid details of the Beckham family feud and earnest discussions as to whether Meghan’s jam (or is it spread?) is value for money.
But the biggest and saddest realisation was that I am in an extreme minority. If I expected those around me to have similarly seen the light, I was very much mistaken. Almost to a man and a woman, they went along with everything; locked themselves down, wore masks, obediently trotted along for their jabs and boosters. My reward for having alternative views, which were the result of close research and reading, was to be derided as a nutjob, conspiracy theorist, tinfoil hat wearer. They could not seem to see, as I saw, that covid was a trial run to deprive us of our freedoms, keep us under control and prevent us from speaking the truth or uttering any views that differed from the official party line.
It soon became clear that the majority, even the most educated, are incapable of thinking for themselves. This was especially apparent in Oxford, where I live and where one might expect independent thought to prevail. Not a bit of it. The dons and professors are as hidebound and conformist as anybody else, and possibly more so. Almost without exception, they went along with all the lockdown and masking rules, never asking themselves what the sinister agenda behind it all might be.
Churches and religious organisations failed us as they obeyed the rules and shut their doors at a time when they were most needed.
Were there any politicians or doctors that we could trust? No. If they spoke out against the prevailing orthodoxy, they were ignored or, in the case of doctors, struck off the medical register and not allowed to practise.
It also became clear that children are not being educated in our schools; they are being indoctrinated. The real reason, I believe, that Labour introduced VAT on private schools was not to raise money to train more teachers but because independent institutions can escape the state-approved curriculum and teach what they like. Almost every day we hear that yet another private school has closed and eventually there may not be any left.
Six years on, there are, admittedly, many more who have woken up and who are saying they are not going to be fooled a second time round with a fake pandemic, intimations of which have already surfaced. Just in case we are in danger of lapsing into a false sense of security, we are currently being warned in the media of a pandemic this year of Influenza A, whatever that might be. Covid is too old hat, it seems, to scare us into submission again.
So quick! Get your jab! Although fewer people than before will take notice, we still have a long way to go before the majority wakes up.
