by HorriblyDepressed

So your case is (apparently) that it is simpler to believe that practically every government in the world is in cahoots in manufacturing a fake death toll and fake infection case numbers, than it is to believe in a virus?

It really isn’t that complicated. Our government is clearly up to no good, because people who should (and probably do) know better (like the CDC) are saying things – many things – that are demonstrably false. And everyone is singing from the same hymnal: every Western government and every mainstream news organization. So, we know that the “Narrative” is a big, fat lie. Given that the Narrative is a lie, this leaves us with two likely possibilities:

One possibility is that COVID-19 is a new, man-made, mildly dangerous, but highly contagious virus. It was designed somewhere in the West (probably the United States or Canada). It was released in Wuhan (a major transportation hub in China) and timed to reach peak reproduction rates just before the Chinese New Year when most of the country is travelling somewhere (like Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday travel in the United States all rolled into one). The virus was created to promote an agenda of global surveillance and control, but releasing it in China had some secondary benefits:

A: It might damage China’s economy. China’s economic power has become something of a Frankenstein’s monster to our global elite: a Golem, as the Jews would say. If the virus could take them down a peg or two, that would be helpful.

B: It could also damage China’s international reputation. If the virus arose naturally from the wet-markets, then it makes the Chinese look unsanitary. If the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that makes the Chinese look incompetent, sinister or both.

C: Releasing the virus in China provides multiple levels of plausible deniability. “The virus came from China. No matter what the story is, it is China’s fault, somehow.”

So, that is one possible origin for the great crisis of 2020: a designer virus plus a massive, coordinated campaign of propaganda and psychological warfare. However, as Some people point out, perhaps a designer virus was not needed. Perhaps the massive, coordinated campaign of propaganda and psychological warfare was sufficient. In that case there was no virus, or at least there was no man-made virus. As is well known, coronaviruses are extremely common. Both the common cold and the flu can be caused by coronaviruses. Several new variants of the flu arise every year. The annual flu vaccine is a cocktail of vaccines designed to fight the variants deemed most likely to be threatening that year. (Two variants is typical, if I recall correctly, and I believe the flu jab for 2019 contained vaccines for three variants.) So, in that case, the same-old same-old was repackaged and presented as something novel, sinister and threatening.

Either scenario could be true, but the first scenario requires a designer virus plus a massive PR campaign, while the second scenario requires only the massive PR campaign. Unless there is a compelling reason to believe the designer virus exists (and the say-so of media whores and bureaucrats is not compelling), then the second scenario seems more likely. That’s Occam’s Razor.

Yes, Fauci is a mouthpiece. Yes, he is creepy. He looks like a sleazy perv who might prey on little girls (or boys). Who knows? He might be a fraud, but for all I know, that smug, stupid expression on his face might be an act. He might be an evil genius.

However, the emails of his that I have seen reveal nothing startling.

One email says that masks don’t protect you from viruses floating in the air, because the viruses are much smaller than the gaps between the fibers in the mask. That is true. It is also what he (and everyone else) was saying publicly when that email was sent. Later, everyone backtracked and said that wearing masks was vitally necessary. (That second statement is a lie. Cheap paper or fabric masks do not protect you from viruses just as they do not protect you from nerve gas, and for the same reason: the barely visible gaps between the fibers are way larger than the invisible viruses/gas molecules.)

The other email thanks Dr. Fauci for saying that the virus came from bats. That is, indeed, what he was saying publicly at the time. Moreover that was the Official Narrative at the time and remained so until quite recently. All these emails reveal is that Dr. Fauci changed his position on these issues. None of that, however, is a startling revelation, because he publicly changed his positions. These emails do not reveal Dr. Fauci saying one thing in private and a different thing in public.

He is still a creepy, pervy, contemptible mouthpiece, but the emails are a giant red herring to distract you from more important issues.

For what it’s worth, this is the technique that mostly prevented Donald Trump from accomplishing anything in office. They throw up a veritable blizzard of irrelevant bullshit. If you let them distract you into arguing about their irrelevant bullshit, in no time at all you will have forgotten what it is you were originally trying to do or say.

This is how you start out trying to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and end up spending the day trying to convince your enemies that you aren’t racist.