The Grand Quest - Part 2
Over time, we became aware of the size and scope of the dissenting community, those individuals (vaxxed or unvaxxed, boosted or not) who are often better able to speak to the harmful impacts of the vaccine and the positive effects of antiviral treatment, than many practicing physicians. Doctors typically spend crazy long days at the clinic and hospital such that they do not have the time to better inform themselves. Instead, the provincial colleges of physicians and surgeons provide them with scientifically unethical publications such as the recent one about the Unvaccinated allegedly being a bigger danger to the Vaccinated, without sharing how such misinformation needs to be retracted for its flaws and replaced by the opposite conclusion. See:
And so, the vax injuries keep piling up, except in mainstream media. The initiative “NotCBCNews” reprinted the story which was run by subscription only Western Standard Newspaper: https://notcbc.ca/2022/06/22/vaccine-injured-canadians-search-for-answers/. And the citizenshearing.ca initiative run by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance, hosted by former CBC/Fifth-Estate journalist Trish Woods provided vaccine-injured Canadians with an opportunity to testify before a panel which included the well-known Preston Manning. (See Day 2.) See also the various peer reviewed Adverse Events categories here: https://www.caers.info/.
And the latest article by Steven Kirsch mentions how many medical personnel are starting to understand the bigger picture, but still feel unable to speak out at the cost of losing their jobs, which is causing a deep psychological strain on them:
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It has become clear that our society is living in a state of “inverted totalitarianism" with BigPharma, BigTech, BigBanks, BigMedia and the all-consuming big investment fund structures that have their tentacles in each. See Dr. Robert Malone's April 2022 commentary on the topic here:
These entities are able to effectively use their structures to withhold crucial information from their various stakeholders. I had previously experienced how, in the waning days of the Communist German Democratic Republic, people were living in parallel bubbles with opponents of the state being super careful not to breathe any hint of opposition to the official narrative when out in public. Attend any gathering of the "likeminded" or "awake" people and you will hear how many find it professionally easier to remain silent rather than out themselves as knowledgeable of vaxx harms and early treatments, to avoid what they fear will be derision from their uninformed and strident pro-vax peers. I have also watched many a movie about the massive censorship operations of the State Security Apparatus of Eastern Germany and can only say that the people of the Stasi of the time would be super jealous of how easy BigTech is now making the surveillance of citizens today!! Most Canadians are unaware of how our cell phone data was co-opted to track us during a part of the pandemic (https://reclaimthenet.org/ontario-coronavirus-cellphone-tracking/) and how Canada's actions to freeze the accounts of ordinary everyday donors to the Freedom Convoy are now being cited in other countries as examples of what lies ahead as BigCorp gains a larger foothold internationally. Thankfully, many more people are slowly becoming aware of the 2016 vision for the future as seen by the unelected captains of industry (CEOs etc. of the highest earning corporations of our time.) See how economics researcher and trends forecaster Dr. Chris Martenson describes the WEF vision for our global future... https://rumble.com/v1aerv5-the-great-reset-is-coming-for-you-dr.-chris-martenson.html
For decades I and many friends and relatives have been firmly within the left leaning CBC/NDP/Mainstream News bubble as are so many of my white collar professional friends and colleagues. We felt that of course it was the left of centre who care the most about the marginalized and who have the best plan to avoid the American style corporate takeover of health care etc. etc. Of course, we voted for Jack Layton and provincial NDP counterparts since our earliest voting days. Books like Linda McQuaig's critiques of anything that reeked of unrestricted free trade giving corporations the right to sue governments whose health and environmental legislation impinged on their profit margin were large influences on our thinking. Back in the day it was the Conservatives who pushed for big business and free trade, and dynamited that hospital in Calgary and the Left who advocated and stood up for the poor, the ordinary workers, the health care system, etc. etc.
Covid has turned that completely upside down, and now we find both leftist Jagmeet and Justin (not to mention Chrystia Freeland) hobnobbing through their WEF connections with the likes of the corporate CEOs of the aforementioned BigPharma/Tech etc. etc. and we find the Conservatives who are speaking up for ordinary men and women, as exemplified by the Truckers, the small businesses along mainstreets everywhere and the vax injured. People who lament that COVID and vaccination have become politicized appear oblivious to this 180 degree switch of loyalties on the spectrum. Unfortunately until the Freedom Convoy arrived in February, it appears the politicians on all sides of the spectrum clung fast to public health directives and advocated for vax mandates and were equally quick to disregard the expertise and heed the warnings of the early treatment specialists in the USA and their Canadian counterparts. No one faults anyone for their close adherence to public health guidance in the first three months of the declared pandemic, but a few basic questions should have been asked once the doctors who had kept the majority of their patients OUT of hospital due to the use of antiviral protocols that were being used globally and that had a 40 year safety record began being yanked off social media. Who benefits if these men and women are silenced? Who has money invested in the blanket use of emergency use authorizations? Why do these aforementioned experts (like Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Pierre Kory and countless others) risk their entire careers to speak out for the public good? Why is everyone not up in arms that Twitter banned the account of the charitable foundation of US family physician, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko the DAY HE DIED? Apparently Twitter feared a wave of messages of condolences and gratitude attesting to how helpfully Dr. Zelenko’s antiviral-based COVID treatment protocol turned their illness around. With the Vanguard Group one of the top investors of BOTH Twitter and Pfizer, one can see how intertwined BigPharma, BigMedia, BigTech are - Having clear evidence of the existence of alternative and more effective treatments for COVID-19 would decimate Pfizer's and Moderna's Emergency Use Authorization claims and their multi-billion dollar sales contracts would be at risk.
As I tried to alert journalists and the politicians I formerly supported as to what they are currently missing out on when they discount renowned high level epidemiologists, vaccinoligsts and other "deplatformed" physicians and researchers in favour of naive, uninformed or captured public health experts, my concerns were clearly rejected. Those gatekeepers quick to slap on the label of "misinformation" that was being bandied around by BigTech were oblivious to the public health definition of information (data in context, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435353/) and were unwilling to look at the larger context. People wanted little soundbites and were unwilling to sift through long documents with references to sources that contradict those they deemed long ago as reputable.
Why with so few exceptions (US Senator Ron Johnson, Ontario's Derek Sloan and Randy Hillier, and a handful of Conservative MPs who have been forwarding petitions on behalf of citizens Canada-wide, or speaking up in the House) have almost no politicians yelled STOP from the rooftops as soon as the first 50 deaths correlated to the "jab" were reported...or the first 100? 200? Why is there no "stopping condition" for this vax rollout? Why are no mainstream media outlets running daily stories the likes of which I and countless others have been summarizing to share with them for nearly a year now? (See the various lists of Vaccine News you are not hearing on Mainstream Media here: https://followingthecovidscience.8b.io/page13.html). Why have pharmacists not banded together to defy provincial health orders and simply REFUSED to provide any more COVID-19 inoculations until there have been definitive talks between their public health bureaucrats and the 500+ members of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance who continually debunk the science upon which public health mandates are perilously hung? Why are some people rushing now to get smallpox vaccines on account of a flimsy and irrelevant monkeypox pandemic narrative? Why are so many people still masking when there are nearly a dozen examples of harm that such breathing barriers inflict, i.e. proof they do more harm than good? (See https://followingthecovidscience.8b.io/page29.html)
Furthermore, why, when it comes to many court cases, do the judges simply "take judicial notice" of public health guidelines for COVID-19 (deeming them self evident and not up for discussion) and wave away evidence that points at holes in public health's interpretation of the science? And HOW CAN IT BE that Health Canada itself violated its normal standards for the approval of medications in order to fast track the implementation of these products?
Here is where Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, Dr. Mattias Desmet's concept of mass formation and Peter Sandman's take on adjustment reactions come in handy.
- When formerly likeminded, rational and educated individuals present others with information that is so contrary to all that we have known and trusted in before, the possibility that they may even remotely be correct causes a feeling of mental discomfort, or cognitive dissonance. https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html. Often the only way for some to reduce the discomfort and restore balance is to reject this information out of hand and if they are makers of policy, to officially ban this information outright. It would be too difficult to entertain the idea that all the institutions, publications, experts into which they had placed their trust could possibly have been corrupted somewhere along the way by hush money from big Pharma. Worse yet is the idea that they themselves were duped in that they went along with the vax narrative and put themselves and their loved ones at risk. When this occurs, we also run into "motivated reasoning," or the unconscious tendency to apply our brain power only when the conclusions will suit our predetermined goal. So people who believe that "science" should necessarily end up pointing to the vaccine, are less likely to look for gaps in that logic than they are to try to criticize findings that point in the opposite direction.
- Secondly, in looking at what was going on in the minds of those who supported a narrative that only served profits and power IN THE ABSENCE of scientifically sound data, Belgian psychology professor Dr. Mattias Desmet turned to the concept of mass formation that was already in use by Freud and Jung. Mass formation can be associated with “mass psychosis, a disturbance in the minds of small or large groups — to the degree where there is a loss of contact with reality — often with an eclipse of morality and objectification of an imagined enemy.” (See https://worldfreedomalliance.org/au/news/how-mass-formation-psychosis-formed-societys-acceptance-of-covid-restrictions/ for more on this topic.) PM Trudeau has certainly led the way with the vilification of the "unvaccinated" in this country, MONTHS after his office would have received reams of documentation showing for example how BOTH the vaccinated and the unvaccinated were carrying a similar viral load at the time (i.e. scientific proof that to vaccinate or not to vaccinate - there is no difference in terms of COVID infectiousness).
- Finally the concept of adjustment reactions proves useful. In times of change, some individuals are quicker to let go of the "status quo" which in this case includes the belief that various experts, the state and other institutions are primarily benevolent. Sandman writes: "Instead of criticizing or ridiculing people’s adjustment reactions to emerging crises, smart crisis communicators encourage the adjustment reactions, legitimize them, ally with them, and guide them."
Sadly, our leaders, employers, societal influencers are actively DISCOURAGING any "divergent" adjustment reactions among particular insightful, reflective and courageous employees. Those prophetic employees, analysts, experts, etc. who make sense of the current situation by intuiting that our trusted media, government and favorite corporate brands are colluding for nefarious purposes are the very individuals who are seeing their media platforms shadowbanned or taken down outright, their contracts and medical license removed etc.
However, the more time that passes, it is becoming clear that such prophetic individuals are more numerous and insightful than we first thought. Using evidence-based research, they are compiling a changed vision of the world in which we find ourselves. We ignore and deplatform them at our peril. Unfortunately they are proving themselves to be more RIGHT than WRONG. Nearly all of the topics they were addressing in early 2021, which were scoffed off as 'Conspiracy Theories' have now become proven realities. Here just a few: https://humanevents.com/2022/04/11/7-covid-conspiracy-theories-that-came-true/ Thank goodness for Texas Justice Pittman who did not grant the request from Pfizer and the FDA for a 75 year time frame after which to make the Pfizer trial data public. Instead, Pfizer is now legally compelled to release data once a month. https://www.fdanews.com/articles/206113-federal-judge-tells-fda-it-must-make-public-55000-pages-a-month-of-pfizer-vaccine-data. These data drops are being made available to the public here: https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/ (See also: https://r.8b.io/387157/assets/files/Pfizer_Data_Drop.pdf) No longer can ANYONE continue believing that the COVID-19 vaccines are "safe and effective" and no longer can anyone continue recommending their use. Instead EVERYONE who hears ANYONE consider taking or giving any COVID-19 vaccine or booster is now morally compelled to point them to information such as https://totalityofevidence.com/naomi-wolf-on-pfizer-foia-documents/ . This means that entire pages on the AHS website need to be removed as they have now been proven patently false. Governments themselves are now the providers of mis/disinformation!
In his book "The Intelligence Trap - Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes" David Robson writes about "functional stupidity." This occurs when some companies actively discourage their employees from thinking (p. 240) "Individuals may prefer to go with the flow in the workplace to save effort and anxiety, particularly if we know there will be incentives or even a promotion in this for us later." ... " We might also be persuaded by social pressure: no one likes a trouble-maker, after all, who delays meetings with endless questions. Unless we are actively encouraged to share our views, staying quiet and nodding along with the people around us can improve our individual prospects--even if that means temporarily turning off our critical capacities.” (242) The entire chapter: Stupidity spreading like wildfire: Why disasters occur and how to stop them, is very insightful. "Ultimately the secrets of wise decision making for the organization are very similar to the secrets of wise decision making for the intelligent individual. Whether you are a forensic scientist, doctor, student, teacher, financier, or aeronautical engineer, it pays to humbly recognize your limits and possibility of failure, take account of ambiguity and uncertainty, remain curious and open to new information, recognize the potential to grow from errors, and actively question everything." (p. 257).
I started my quest with this question: What is driving certain individuals to risk losing their jobs and teaching positions in order to try to convince public health officials to STOP following WHO and PHAC guidelines?
It is my hope that everyone who has read to the end of this essay will be inspired to also seek out the answers to similar questions. I would love to hear where your journeys take you.
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Here a few quotes for added inspiration:
“Avoid blind compliance. Ask questions.”
― Mimi Ikonn
“Questions open a space in your mind that allow better answers to breathe.”
― Richie Norton
“As you dig your teeth into your assumptions, your teeth become sharper. You can dig deeper. You become what the world needs simply by helping yourself. It’s not easy, but it is worth it. The truth, as they say, hurts. But they also say it sets you free.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Art of Talking to Yourself
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigating to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
From: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/question-everything