Thread by @justin_hart

🧵As the Good Book says, "there is nothing new under the sun." The absurdity and chaos of the Covid pandemic was an echo. Let's go back 400 years to Milan, Italy where a REAL plague (THE plague) drove that city INSANE. 1/

In his 1827 novel I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), Italian author Alessandro Manzoni writes about the difficult journey of two lovers affianced in 17the century Milan. The story is fiction but was thoroughly researched by Manzoni from original source journals. 2/

The fatality rate of the plague has been estimated between 30% and 60% but Manzoni points out that the more ruinous part of the disease was the fear! "The image of this supposed danger beset and tortured the minds of the people far more than the real and existing danger." 3/

First, rumors started of unclean people spreading the plague: "The city, already tumultuously inclined, was now turned upside down..." Hoarding, chaos and upturned lives were seen everywhere. 4/

Then the panic of illness. They started to burn and destroy everything which might be infected: "... the owners of the houses, with lighted straw, burned the besmeared spots; and passers-by stopped, gazed, shuddered, murmured." 5/

"Strangers, suspected of this alone, and at that time easily recognized by their dress, were arrested by the people in the streets, and consigned to prison. Here interrogations and examinations were made of captured, captors, and witnesses..." 6/

Further rumors arose of people using tainted oil and water "anointing" walls and benches. If you didn't follow things to exacting measure... measures were taken against you!

Shades of masking tyranny anyone? 8/

A group called the Monatti arose - unelected officials appointed to "enforce good government" (like county health directors) - these "exercised all kinds of tyranny" over the citizenry. Think Fauci & crew, working completely beyond the law. They are “The Science”! 9/

The Lazzaretto was the quarantine house. In our pandemic, major university campuses designated specific dorms for the "infected". My own stepdaughter away at college could guess the spread of Covid on campus based on how many lights would show up in the quarantine tower. 10/

Recall that in Australia, the government proudly constructed and utilized the internment-style camps for positive cases hoping to pursue a zero-Covid policy for the entire continent. 11/

“Such a state of things went on and took effect up to a certain period; but, with the increase of deaths and desolation, and the terror of the survivors, these officers came to be, as it were, exempted from all supervision; the Monatti especially, arbiters of everything.” 12/

“The arbiters of everything.” “Exempt from all supervision.” Remember the U.S. health inspector just giddy with joy that she could shut down the restaurant? 13/

Then, the grift continues. "It was believed... that both monatti and apparitori purposely let fall from their carts infected clothes, in order to propagate and keep up the pestilence." What's the latest variant? Notice the latest head-fake: 14/

There’s always ANOTHER variant in the wings to keep things going. They knew how to do it then, they know how to do it now. Never forget: "The image of this supposed danger beset and tortured the minds of the people far more than the real and existing danger."