This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2098 into law, which allows the state’s medical board to punish doctors for disseminating “misinformation” or “disinformation” regarding covid-19. The new law states that doctors should not contradict “scientific consensus” on covid-19, or they could be charged with “unprofessional conduct,” and possibly have their medical license suspended or revoked.
Another great article and there is no doubt that Australians deserve more journalists like you to bring the facts that matter. Thanks for your hard work !!
Thank you so much for continuing to do science journalism in Australia, Maryanne. We so appreciate it. We are a low income family so can only offer our gratitude at this stage.
Could it be that “Public Health is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”
Clausewitz famously said “War is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”
Has the system been successful in making covid-19 an existential threat to justify a wartime total mobilization response?
The system has successfully mobilized most of the journals, media, politicians, medical schools, colleges, military, doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, finance, and others, including people who are afraid of their own lives and wanting to be responsible citizens by following the dictates of the system which must include "vaccination." And don't question that the very definition of vaccination had to be changed to fit the experimental drug.
In the middle of a war one has to ensure that tactical losses are put in context of the larger political goal which is the total eradication of Covid-19. One way this is done is to put down protests, hide information, and bring to bear the most formattable mercenary, the one who has been the trusted warrior for the last several hundred years, THE SCIENCE. And because this is an existential war, slight modifications to scientific practice are just fine in the middle of the battle. Don't you remember the refrigeration trucks parked outside hospitals in NYC?
Barbara Tuchman's book "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam" comes to mind.
Our bodies contain trillions of microbes without which we would instantly die. It is impossible to defeat microbes. Thus the political goal of defeating microbes was the Big Lie successfully used mobilize most of the modern world in the existential fight against Covid-19.
OK if you have read this far, what I am going to say next might make you hate me forever and try to excise from your brain what you just read.
For me, the insight for the above comment is my seemingly full time effort to grapple with both Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine at the same time. Just before reading this substack, I read a substack that makes the case that Putin has mobilized support within Russia for the existential war in Ukraine. He was justified to support the oblasts that have been continually attacked by Ukraine forces since the US sponsored coup in 2014 resulting in over 14,000 deaths, and now the Ukrainians are threatening a giant nuclear power plant that Russia has controlled since March. It is folly to accuse Russia which learned lessons from Chernobyl disaster would attack a facility that they controlled? And further folly to accuse Russia of bombing gas pipelines which they spent billions to construct and would be a continuing source of revenue? The propaganda against Russia has been the west's approach but this time most of the world is behind Russia. And since the US stated goal is to break up Russia and remove Putin and NATO has been mobilized in Ukraine, the Russian people know that this is an existential threat and the state has been mobilized for war by the clear and present danger from the US and NATO.
Here is the article I read just before writing this comment
This is truly terrifying and a chilling glimpse into the future of the "free" western world. These initiatives come from beyond our respective shores, the question is "who" is pushing these narratives and "why" are all the so called leaders and officials so happy to oblige any outrageous demand for authoritarian takeover of our lives?
The people driving this agenda appear to be exceedingly hubristic. Who are they? Newsom and Palaszczuk are just front people. Neither of these two could carry an argument if interrogated by an effective interviewer. Why aren't they forced to face one. Our journalists appear to have been as terrorised as our doctors., except for a few like you, Maryanne. We are living in very strange times. At it core, our media, our politics, our judiciary,, our medical establishment all appear to have been corrupted. By whom? Who are these people?
Another great article and there is no doubt that Australians deserve more journalists like you to bring the facts that matter. Thanks for your hard work !!
Thank you so much for continuing to do science journalism in Australia, Maryanne. We so appreciate it. We are a low income family so can only offer our gratitude at this stage.
Today Covid, tomorrow low carb/keto, and cholesterol/statin skepticism. One person’s “disinformation” is another’s second opinion.
What a dark era for the openly debateble, questionable, rechalengable true science. Shame on the MEDICRATS.
One has to wonder how many doctors will throw up their hands and either leave practice or leave Clownifornia...🤷♂️🤦🏼♂️
Could it be that “Public Health is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”
Clausewitz famously said “War is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”
Has the system been successful in making covid-19 an existential threat to justify a wartime total mobilization response?
The system has successfully mobilized most of the journals, media, politicians, medical schools, colleges, military, doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, finance, and others, including people who are afraid of their own lives and wanting to be responsible citizens by following the dictates of the system which must include "vaccination." And don't question that the very definition of vaccination had to be changed to fit the experimental drug.
In the middle of a war one has to ensure that tactical losses are put in context of the larger political goal which is the total eradication of Covid-19. One way this is done is to put down protests, hide information, and bring to bear the most formattable mercenary, the one who has been the trusted warrior for the last several hundred years, THE SCIENCE. And because this is an existential war, slight modifications to scientific practice are just fine in the middle of the battle. Don't you remember the refrigeration trucks parked outside hospitals in NYC?
Barbara Tuchman's book "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam" comes to mind.
Our bodies contain trillions of microbes without which we would instantly die. It is impossible to defeat microbes. Thus the political goal of defeating microbes was the Big Lie successfully used mobilize most of the modern world in the existential fight against Covid-19.
OK if you have read this far, what I am going to say next might make you hate me forever and try to excise from your brain what you just read.
For me, the insight for the above comment is my seemingly full time effort to grapple with both Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine at the same time. Just before reading this substack, I read a substack that makes the case that Putin has mobilized support within Russia for the existential war in Ukraine. He was justified to support the oblasts that have been continually attacked by Ukraine forces since the US sponsored coup in 2014 resulting in over 14,000 deaths, and now the Ukrainians are threatening a giant nuclear power plant that Russia has controlled since March. It is folly to accuse Russia which learned lessons from Chernobyl disaster would attack a facility that they controlled? And further folly to accuse Russia of bombing gas pipelines which they spent billions to construct and would be a continuing source of revenue? The propaganda against Russia has been the west's approach but this time most of the world is behind Russia. And since the US stated goal is to break up Russia and remove Putin and NATO has been mobilized in Ukraine, the Russian people know that this is an existential threat and the state has been mobilized for war by the clear and present danger from the US and NATO.
Here is the article I read just before writing this comment
"Politics By Other Means
Putin and Clausewitz
Big Serge
19 hr ago"
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/politics-by-other-means
Since I don't know if or when I will be back here, I need to mention my primary source for the war is:
moonofalabama.org
This is truly terrifying and a chilling glimpse into the future of the "free" western world. These initiatives come from beyond our respective shores, the question is "who" is pushing these narratives and "why" are all the so called leaders and officials so happy to oblige any outrageous demand for authoritarian takeover of our lives?
The people driving this agenda appear to be exceedingly hubristic. Who are they? Newsom and Palaszczuk are just front people. Neither of these two could carry an argument if interrogated by an effective interviewer. Why aren't they forced to face one. Our journalists appear to have been as terrorised as our doctors., except for a few like you, Maryanne. We are living in very strange times. At it core, our media, our politics, our judiciary,, our medical establishment all appear to have been corrupted. By whom? Who are these people?
If The Science™️ hadn't been so consistently wrong, maybe this would be less sinister. But it has, so it's sinister.