After half a million views, an outpouring of emotional positive responses, no complaints about veracity & 100 likes for every dislike, @pandata19’s BizNews presentation, "The Ugly Truth about the COVID-19 Lockdowns" was deplatformed by YouTube. 1/4 odysee.com/@PANDA:3b/Time…
Censoring speech, let alone true speech, is evil, and YouTube has gone Stalinist. We must fight this darkness. George Washington: “Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.” Please help us to get this message out there. 2/4
In addition to censoring @BizNewsCOM's channel, YouTube saw fit to remove @pandata19's interview of the great Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, hero of the Swine Flu scandal of 2009, which had been up since December. This was one of my favourites. 3/4 odysee.com/@PANDA:3b/pand…
The pattern here is that true words are the ones that must go. The narrative of frauds like Fauci, Drosten & Tedros is false, & the standard that YouTube & co have set is that their narrative must not be contradicted. We must rise up against this encroaching darkness. 4/4
I laid out my views on whether there was a pandemic below. Short version—under a sensible definition of the term, there wasn’t one. I’ve not seen direct rebuttal of this, but it seems to be at the heart of the fracas. /2
Separately, the argument for the stability of long RNA viruses seems to hinge on a sort of group selection assumption. Group selection arguments come in various forms, ranging from dubious and contentious to batshit crazy. /3
Cape Town, my home, is a gorgeous city. In addition to the standard lockdown nonsense, South Africa's added extreme duration and a plethora of absurdities, such as bans on selling open-toed shoes and hot chickens.
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As elsewhere, small businesses were targeted while large ones were privileged. The City's restaurant trade, long a mark of pride, was gutted. But, testifying to the power of decentralised economies, it has come roaring back, and not by way of proliferation of boring chains.
While Europe's hospitality industry has never recovered its former glory, Cape Town is now comfortably exceeding its past standards. I take my hat off to the proprietors who made it through, and the ones who learnt lessons and started afresh.
The most important interview of the Covid era? Wolfgang @wodarg talks with @jjcouey. There is a personal aspect to this, which I document below for those who are interested, but don't allow that to distract from listening to this sweeping assessment. /1 twitch.tv/videos/2037237…
I don't recall how it occurred, but in late 2020, when I was 9 months into railing against Covid malarkey, someone connected me with Dr Wodarg. I knew the WHO had long been captured, and that he'd fought against a fake pandemic & its vaccine sham. /2 pandata.org/wolfgang-wodar…
We found common ground on so much. The problem with centralisation, the virtues of subsidiarity, a shared sense of the obvious fraud that was being perpetrated. Most of all I knew I was speaking with a real human and a deep thinker. /3
Many skeptics will be celebrating the exposure of Faucian nonsense & lying in this testimony. I AM NOT!
It is because the skeptic movement’s loudest voices are those who missed the intrinsic scam of Covid from the start that we end up here, omitting all the crucial questions. /1
The fact that Covid was from the get-go obviously not dangerous and that every element of the Covid narrative arose from farcical premises leaves anyone who missed this reality unqualified to be asking the questions. /2
Since we have the oblivious occupying the chair, we will see an irrational focus on the lab leak Scooby Doo, instead of pursuit of the greatest fraud in human history. And that focus will sustain the deleterious clown world of pandemic preparedness. /3
What would happen if someone threw the kill switch on the internet, or there was a great cyber attack? I think there would be a bit of chaos, but it would be short term. Let me explain my thinking. /1
I think the progenitors of lockdown were shocked at how quickly SMEs reconstituted. Where I live, the restaurant trade took a knock, but thrives again. There was a massive transfer of paper wealth from middle class to UHNWIs, but there was more resilience than many expected. /2
Remember Y2K? Also a vastly overestimated event. I doubt whether businessmen would merely capitulate if their WhatsApp got knocked out. How quickly would they re-establish comms. /3
The problem with centralisation
An argument for subsidiarity
A thread incorporating the text and slides of my 19 November presentation at the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania. /1
1. Complexity theory and the epistemology of centralisation
A constant source of wonder and curiosity for me is how complex our world is: ecologies, society, immune systems, the banking system, social order, climate—
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All of them are staggering both in their complexity and in the infinite potential that complexity implies for knowledge growth to fill the void of ignorance./3