I started out 2022 by predicting that capitalism and common sense would catalyze a massive pivot in how the mainstream media reports on Covid.
I believed that the media would eventually start the process of pivoting from hysteria and that politicians, understanding full well that they can’t get re-elected during mid-terms this year on a platform of locking people in their homes, would follow.
All I can say one month into the year is holy shit, does it look like I was right.
So far in 2022, innumerable U.S. states, in addition to countries like Sweden, Norway and Denmark, are lifting Covid restrictions.
Connecticut and Delaware are planning on lifting school mask mandates by the end of March. Oregon officials have also announced that general mask mandates would be lifted March 31. Even New Jersey and California announced they would ease mandates in coming weeks.
And the media narrative has very quickly changed, too.
Dr Leana Wen, columnist with The Washington Post and CNN medical analyst who has, in the past, gushed non-stop about following the government’s Covid guidance, has now completely changed her playbook for her appearances on CNN.
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She’s right: we do need to have an honest conversation. But the question is why are we having it now and why weren’t we allowed to have it just weeks ago?
In fact, where the fuck was this woman 6 months ago?
On New Years, she was urging people to mask up while heading outdoors to watch the ball drop.
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The left is also starting to talk about concepts that they were completely silent on for the last 2 years. Most notably, natural immunity.
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In addition to natural immunity, we have seen a drastic shift on numerous major points of contention by “conspiracy theorists” during the pandemic.
Remember when questioning whether people were in hospitals for Covid or with Covid was written off as a conspiracy theory in 2020?
Rolling Stone went for the exacta by using the terms “anti-vax” and “conspiracy theory” when describing these questions.
Scientific American also took their shot in October of 2020, stating that inflated death counts were “false”.
Well, in early 2022, CDC director Rochelle Walensky took to Fox News and admitted she wasn’t exactly sure “on how many of the COVID-19-related deaths in the U.S. were directly due to the virus and how many were individuals who died with COVID-19 yet had underlying conditions.”
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Then, of course, there was the lab leak “conspiracy theory” that, after costing many people their social media accounts, has now widely been accepted as the leading likely genesis of Covid-19.
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There was then the wonderful op-ed written by Peter Daszak which charged that the lab leak was a “conspiracy theory”. We would later find out that Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance was at the center of gain-of-function research taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Among the other “conspiracy theories” that have become mainstream are the ideas that cloth masks don’t work - now part of the mainstream’s talking points - and what I believe is going to be a massive pivot on the use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for use in treating Covid - as has been supported in recent leaked DARPA documents.
Finally, we’re learning that the vaccines, while helpful in reducing harm the first time someone gets the virus, also carry with them substantial side effects and may do more harm than good when administered to people who have already been infected with Covid.
Dr. Rand Paul noted that this week, during an interview with The Dana Show, stating: "If your 15 year-old [boy] has already had COVID and you vaccinate them, you put them at risk for myocarditis."
“This is without question. The data is in on this. Each subsequent vaccination is a higher risk for myocarditis.”
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Anyone who dared question the “official” findings of the NIH, CDC and WHO was quickly marginalized and sent for social-media-re-education camps in the form of suspensions or outright bans. For some citizens, regular common sense and everyday critical thinking not only had them dismissed as lunatics, but also cost them their jobs.
Looking back on some of these major issues now, it is still stunning to see the pivot - even though I knew it was coming.
In fact, it is both stunning and sickening to look back on and, when presented collectively, it paints a picture of either gross incompetence or nefarious ignorance to advance an agenda.
The one question that remains about the entire narrative, and now the pivot: what was it all for?
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More:
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/the-great-covid-pivot-of-2022-natural
