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1. 'The Corona Complex: The entire pandemic regime bristles with inconsistencies and contradictions,' article by Milosz Matuschek, republished in Rubikon 18.12.20. Unofficial translation archive.org/details/the-co… Quote thread.
'The Corona vanguard has burned all bridges to the..'

2. ..'old normality behind it. It only goes forward, regardless of losses. Democracy, freedom and open discourse are falling by the wayside and are willingly sacrificed by an incited majority of the population for a vague feeling of being protected from a nasty disease by ..'

3. ..'Daddy State. In this unprecedented historical situation, we are entirely on our own. No "supreme being" or benevolent foreign superpower will save us. What is needed is the common sense of all of us, our ability to network, the courage to make use of our own intellect.'

4. 'For the powers that be, who have devised all this, are skating on thin ice. If they succeed in attacking their main narratives - such as PCR testing and the myth of an "epidemic of national scope" - the whole house of cards will collapse.'

5. 'In 207 BC, the Chinese commander Xiang Yu faced an army of 300,000 men with 20,000 men. During the Battle of Yulu, after crossing the river, he ordered his own ships to be sunk. He wanted to present his men with a fait accompli. The way back was now blocked.'

6. 'Survival by escape was no longer possible, only by victory. Sinking one's own ships or burning bridges today proverbially stands for the situation of the "fait accompli", for the fait accompli.
The situation is serious - but different from what many think.'

7. 'The story of Sars-CoV-2 has no real beginning and, so far, no real end. But it is a story of fait accompli. Suddenly, there was a virus in the world. And the fight against the virus by politics follows Xiang Yu's strategy: The only way is forward, without alternative and..'

8. ..'in a rush. A return to the old normality is postponed further into the future, made dependent on ever new measures and conditions, or even expressly ruled out.
The ships that are being burned here right now are called: democratic discourse, scientific exchange, ..'

9. ..'the principle of listening to the other side.
Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, it is not the achievements of modernity that are relied upon to overcome the crisis, but the forgotten remnants of pre-modernity. What is allowed to be valid is passed down from the..'

10. ..'top to the bottom. "Auctoritas, non veritas facit legem" - it is not truth that counts, but power, as Thomas Hobbes wrote in his book Leviathan. He who has power is the one who is just right.
The open-ended, democratic element has been removed from the debate. It has ..'

11. ..'been replaced by the cohesiveness of "official truth," flanked by a decisionist friend-foe mindset. The fight against the virus has been elevated to a battle of "good versus evil." Good and reasonable are those who support the official line of politics and its measures..'

12. ..'to fight the virus. Those who do not do so are helping the virus, specifically the "enemy" in the war rhetoric that is so often used. And anyone who helps the enemy is, of course, a traitor and must be muted, disinvited, defamed or otherwise silenced. All this..'

13. ..'is happening right before our eyes.
It does not matter how renowned the critics are or how numerous and high-quality the critical studies are that contradict the current policy. However, when an issue is stripped of its scientific and democratic basis for discussion, ..'

14. ..'we find ourselves in the terrain of faith. "Do not believe rumours, only official communications," Angela Merkel opined in a televised speech [bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/…] on 18 March 2020, adding, "We are a democracy. We do not live by coercion, but by shared knowledge..'

15. ..'and participation." This sentence has not been honoured since the beginning of the crisis.
This brings us to the point of decision, the moment of truth.
Politics, a section of academia and a large part of the media have gone into battle without leaving open ..'

16. ..'the possibility of retreat. Much trust has been destroyed.
All those who continue to support the official Covid narrative are now in the awkward situation that they themselves need this pandemic to survive.
The claim that this is a dangerous virus right now and that..'

17. ..'the measures to combat it are the right ones must hold at all costs. If the narrative falls, the credibility of three supporting institutions collapses: Politics, media and science.
But can the Covid narrative hold?
Many different voices have pointed out numerous ..'

18. ..'inconsistencies since the beginning of the crisis (see, for example, the thesis papers [matthias.schrappe.com/index.htm] of Professor Schrappe's team, the Corona Committee [corona-ausschuss.de] of lawyer Reiner Füllmich and many more). In the overall view, which we attempt ..'

19. ..'here in the following, the inconsistencies pile up over time into ever new, larger, false and skewed constructions.
This situation also presents the citizen with a completely new challenge. Even more clearly than before, he has to position himself, relate to ..'

20 ..'the situation, choose his "camp": be obedient or be critical? Show face or duck away? It is a test for the citizen, for democracy, ultimately for the liberal order and for the common sense of each individual, who is supposed to make sense of everything that happens.'

21. 'But the normal laws of cognition, negotiation, public communication of meaning and judgement have just been suspended. Politics has decided to confront the citizen with the most massive encroachments on fundamental rights in the history of the Federal Republic without..'

22. ..'having him or her have adequate participation in the decision-making process. They treat the population like a willing and tractable herd. This herd is now to be "inoculated" or "vaccinated through" in a hurry, according to Karl Lauterbach's choice of words.'

23. 'The situation is serious.
How we get through this situation is now up to each individual & thus on the shoulders of many people who trust in common sense & their own judgement; who organise themselves and are ready to face reality,especially when it is a disturbing reality.'

24. Let us not count on a saviour. Let us not count on mere chance, not on liberating court decisions, not on people who offer themselves to us as universal problem solvers. Let us trust in ourselves and the power of the many independent networked minds.'

25. 'Let us examine for ourselves, think for ourselves, decide for ourselves.
We make no claim to completeness in our statements. We are aware that some information can be disturbing, to the point of collapsing the world view. But we have decided to gather together as many..'

26. ..'contradictions and open questions as possible now, because ultimately we believe in Ingeborg Bachmann's sentence: "Truth is appropriate for man.”
No matter what situation you find yourself in: whether you take the Corona issue like an extended sabbatical; whether you ..'

27. ..'are a civil servant who cannot be dismissed or an artist who has become unemployed; whether you are affected by a de facto occupational ban or everything seems to go on as before for you. You may even benefit from the current situation. Take time to understand what..'

28. ..'is happening. Because in the end, you are also affected.
Our initial consideration was to draw up a critical overall picture of the current situation, as accurate as possible in the parts that seemed relevant to us, and to analyse various blocks of topics: medical,..'

29. ..'legal, media, mass psychology, international and economic.
The current corona crisis has several hang-ups.
• From a medical perspective, it hangs on the "new infections" measured by PCR tests.
• The legal regime of action hangs on terms such as "epidemic situation of..'

30. ..'national scope" or "infection".
• The media hang-up is predominantly the official narrative of politics about the existence of a dangerous pandemic. Opinion-forming itself is dysfunctional; it can hardly develop in a climate of censorship, panic generation and the urge..'

31. ..'to conform.
• In the end, the question of all questions is: cui bono? Who benefits from all this? Who has a say in what happens? Who has interests and profits? The global interests and the actions of the World Economic Forum, China, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation..'

32. ..'and other actors in the course of the pandemic are virtually absent from the media, as if these topics were social taboos.
We divide our remarks thematically into several parts: medical inconsistencies, the legal pandemic regime, opinion management and the global agenda..'

33. ..'of WEF, China & Co. Ideally, the overall picture of the situation will be more coherent than the picture we have now.
Der Corona-Komplex - Was passiert hier eigentlich gerade? You can also listen to this text, read by Gunnar Kaiser.

34. 'Editorial note: This text first appeared under the title "The Corona Complex - what is actually happening here?" on miloszmatuschek.substack.com/p/coronakomplex
It is the prelude to a series of several parts. Part 1 is about the medical inconsistencies of the Corona Complex. As a subscriber..'

35. ..'to the author's website, you can read on immediately: You can find the continuation (Part 1) here [miloszmatuschek.substack.com/p/medizinische…].
Milosz Matuschek is a lawyer and journalist. He has published several books and until recently was a long-time columnist for the NZZ.' ..

36. 'He runs the wide-ranging blog "Freischwebende Intelligenz" [miloszmatuschek.substack.com] and, together with the Youtuber and philosopher Gunnar Kaiser, is the initiator of the "Appeal for Free Debate Spaces." [idw-europe.org'
This work is licensed under ..'

37. ..'a Creative Commons licence (Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International) [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc…]. You may distribute and reproduce it subject to the terms of the licence.'
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