Of all people, it was Daniel Andrews who declared, with rare truth-telling cut-through, that the era of “Covid exceptionalism” was over. Andrews was saying what every goon-government in the world had already decided, albeit far more surreptitiously.
I am not sure who first coined the phrase “virus gonna virus”, but the heroic US dissident journalist Alex Berenson certainly gave it currency. The Atlantic (of course) labelled Berenson “Covid’s wrongest man”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/
He has been one of Covid’s rightest men.
He deserves the credit for the phrase. It summed up the basic truth of virus management. Governments are poorly placed to control viruses, putting it as its kindest. End of. If only they had cottoned on a little earlier. We might have all been spared the worst three years of our lives. The list of Covid State gifts to us is familiar. Lost freedoms. Crushed rights. Eliminated small businesses. Surplus deaths, without explanation and, apparently without State curiosity or remorse.
The evidence of the abrupt about-face, executed without the remotest remorse or self-awareness, is everywhere. Now China is re-admitting international visitors. Despite the 88 million current Covid cases there, or whatever the real figure is. Who knows what the real figure is. Now, who cares? We are post-Covid.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64201776
Novak Djokovic is playing tennis in Australia.
You now see about a dozen face masks in shopping malls and on trains and buses, on a good day. You can visit Bunnings and Woolies without a QR code.
At Mass, the holy water, the signs of peace, the collections, the absence of distancing, are all back. No announcements. No explanations. No regrets.
Court cases and legislatures are overturning vaccine mandates across the globe.
The godfather of Australian Chief Health Officers, Paul Kelly, says that we should admit Chinese travellers. No questions asked. Let them all in!
Borders remain open globally (except in the United States under the watch of the loony geriatrocracy still in place in Washington).
New viral strains (the kraken?) come and go, but life as sort-of normal has been restored. People are getting on with their post-Covid lives, even as Covid is still (apparently) with us. We have accepted that Covid is, for most, a minor inconvenience rather than a combo of the Black Death and Ebola. (I wonder just how the whole Ebola affair influenced the fear factor).
It all looks pretty silly now, that Covid exceptionalism, n’est pas?
It has been the greatest tip-toe away from policy madness and government induced hysteria in history. In one sweeping statement of emperor-without-clothes, Daniel Andrews let the feline out of the bag. With a straight face. Without remorse or a sense of irony. No one says anything. No journalist asked the obvious questions. What the hell was that all about? It has been an almighty replica of the famous James Thurber story of the day the dam broke in Ohio, where a whole town fell for the fear that they were about to be destroyed by a flood, and everyone ran. And ran. Nothing happened. Then they never spoke of it again. Literally.
https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll32/id/977/
The essential truth of the claim that “virus gonna virus” has come home to roost. All the evidence suggests that all the lockdowns, the social distancing, the masks, the vaccine mandates, and the rest, made not a jot of difference to Covid outcomes. The science, this time, is in.
Overreach? Rejecting the truth of the King Canute position? Ludicrous fatal-conceit of governments, trying to further cement the idea that the State controls nature? It is an old trick of the State to suggest that it is needed. And that all of its decrees are necessary, for our good. Read up on Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau. It is mission creep, of course, putting it as its most polite. That is what the state does.
It was the iconic, freedom-loving economist Friedrich Hayek’s phrase, the fatal conceit. He was speaking of socialism, and of his long-posited belief that governments could never know all the information held by free individuals needed to run a centrally planned state. The Covid regime is the perfect example of the truth of Hayek’s conception of fatal conceit. This time it was lethal, for all those killed by the vaccines, killed because of lack of treatment for non-Covid illnesses, for those not granted access to banned but effective anti-virals, for those who died of mental illnesses and suicide associated with lockdowns.
Quite the list. Quite the fatal conceit.
The argument that governments could control a virus was always a myth perpetrated by clueless bureaucracies populated with millennials infected with delusions of grandeur and deeply embedded statist ideology. That they got away with this for nearly three years is a sobering statement about the gullibility of voters. And a statement about the complicity of corrupted media and academics.
Expecting those who derided this common sense and science-backed view of viral progression to apologise to the rest of us is likely to be a step too far. After all, who wants to admit to have been an idiot? Not just an idiot, but an idiot in pathetic, servile worship of an ideology. An ideology in support of an international cartel of crooked corporations. The thrice boostered Barack Obama reacted to his bout of Covid with the well-rehearsed line – it is a timely reminder to get your shots. Really.
How does the idiocy of useful-goon governments fit with the emerging literature on Covid conspiracies?
Yes, it does. The idea that conspiracy theories about Covid collapse in the face of the “Hanlon’s Razor” theory – that Covid policy can be explained by incompetence and not evil intent – fails to recognise that politicians are merely pawns offering obedience to those who are ultimately pulling the strings.
Those plotting the Covid pandemic knew precisely how politicians would behave. And they did. The lever-pullers knew that politicians across the globe would want to be non-Canutes, in thrall of the fatal conceit.
Paul Collits
10 January 2023
Virus gonna virus ….and unfortunately they are gonna virus again. This is not over by a long shot.
That was just the precursor dry run. Didn’t go as well as they had hoped so the next one is incoming.
They had their Event 201 to set COVID up and blow me down if a real event happened exactly as they said, no more a couple of months later. Wow what a co-incidence !
And we can note it did not work quite as well in Africa. Now they are running the next dry run mainly with all the heads of African nations. Bill Gates is there again. How is it that this guy’s name pops up every time something nasty is announced regarding vaccines or catchable diseases or sterilisation or genocide. You could think he had an agenda!
But he will be making sure this time.
Covid was the minor inconvenience to test the waters and I think the next one will be the ……“new kraken” ….a rush of EBOLA or similar. A new round of hysteria coming up.
I keep saying to myself how can all these so-called intelligent people around the world not see the underlying deceit. This week I was reading the comments made on this subject in The Epoch Times ( a rare news presentation that tells it like it is) and I was dumbfounded to read so many still absolutely refuse to see a problem with the shots. Some of the comments were getting really nasty. This probably boils down to pride a great deal of the time with people not wanting to admit they got it wrong and, also the terrifying possibility of a shorter life.
When this next plandemic occurs the governments will hunker down again like the good little obedient pawns that they are. After all didn’t they sign the agreement in the 1990s that populations had to be reduced. Could not be seen to be the odd country out. Who the hell gave the politicians the right to decide on a cull?
But yes they did know how the politicians would behave. It was either peer pressure or bank balance rewards. It is hard to even imagine the amount of money that has come into play for this persuasion to have occurred. Unimaginable corruption. But I imagine not a huge amount of money went into the hands of Aussie polis. It is more a slap on the back kind of thing with them!
And now the WHO are in charge. Who gave the politicians the right to sign over our sovereignty?
And getting back to us…the common man, I notice everyone is selling their chickens….big mistake. They all rushed out and got freezers, chickens, raised vege garden beds and a dog. It’s a buyer’s paradise at the moment and shelters are full. Too soon, too soon.
So stock up and be prepared. It’s going to be very, very rugged this next time.
These guys (Globalists) don’t give up that easily.
The governments actions were never ignorant idiocy.
They were intentional and coordinated.
Very few world leaders said no and several that did, died suddenly in odd circumstances.
The simplest double check on their actions would have shown them it was a ridiculous charade.
That none of them did so, means that none of them is fit to hold any sort of power and all of them should be in court.