While I haven’t the least trouble imagining that those in power are wicked enough to conspire against those over whom they rule, I do struggle to imagine they are smart enough to pull off many true conspiracies. Last night I saw a documentary on a con-man who pretended to be Saudi royalty, and while dining with a table full of deep pocketed investors he ordered and ate prosciutto. Think about that for a moment.
Today the number of people who believe lockdowns, masks and jabs are effective is roughly equal to the number of people who were actually helped by any of the above. For the math challenged, that’s zero. Potential plandemic conspirators are deep in the “fool me twice” weeds. The uni-party government cries of “WOLF!” can’t be heard because its voice is too hoarse from all the other “WOLF!” shoutings. There was a time when heads of state undoubtedly Snoopy danced over their discovery of just how much we were willing to put up with. But they pushed too far. And, as they say, we won’t get fooled again.
What then are we to make of all the rumblings? New strains too varied to be stopped. Airlines are pushing masks once again. People are getting sick, ad nauseum. First, it could be unexpected fallout from phase I. One doesn’t create a weaponizable illness, leak it and expect to cleanly pick up all the pieces. Conspiracies will always run into unintended consequences because conspirators don’t know the future as well as they’d like to think.
Second, there is no real reason to do phase II. It was a common theory, and I think not at all a bad one, that phase I was a trial run. Not on the virus or the health consequences, but on how we would respond. The goal of COVID was less to make people sick or dead, more to see what kind of draconian, fascist rules we’d be willing to accept. If there is going to be a phase II, it will likely simply be phase II of draconian, fascist rules, without the now worthless disease theater. There may be lockdowns. There may be shuttering of businesses. There will certainly be more monitoring of the citizenry. These may come, however, without a cardboard boogeyman, or with a different one. Climate change might do the trick. As one wise wag put it, “Is it COVID season again? I haven’t even taken down my Climate Change decorations.”
Third, what do they really want to control? One of the reasons we won’t get fooled again is because of unregulated speech. They could slander, fire, and dox the docs and other medical professionals that told the truth, but they couldn’t shut down the internet. We learned there was a simple, vainglorious man behind the curtain. Maybe this time, just in time for another election, they can suppress speech they don’t want us to hear. Control the press, jail the opposition, spy on your own people, control the means of production. Sound familiar?
That said, here’s one theory I can make sense of. Plandemic Phase II would be quite effective as a screening mechanism, flushing out all of us who won’t play ball.
What are they going to do today? The same thing they do every day. Plan to take over the world.
I think you hit all the major points with this insanity. Well said.
I didn’t understand, he ate prosciutto? What does that mean? I had to look that up. Yeah, now that is funny, pretending to be Saudi royalty and eating pork.
Thank you Michael. It took me a second too while watching. While I knew Saudi Muslims don’t eat pork, I had to remember that prosciutto is pork. It’s good to live in the new covenant.