Since their introduction around 1800, Vaccines have produced many antibodies – to their very existence.

From the start, some people, with good cause, were wary of them – they led to injuries.  Governments in contrast have tended to see more benefits than harms and have made vaccination mandatory.

Mandatory vaccination has not gone down well. People went to jail 150 years ago over this issue, not just those refusing to be vaccinated but also some of those tasked with enforcing mandates for failing to enforce them. In the UK, an anti-vaccination movement put a stop to compulsion – but it took 50 years.

However, most of us, or rather most of our parents, opted to have us vaccinated and this has prevented deaths that otherwise would not have happened. As the slogan goes – vaccinations create adults.

It is difficult to step away from this established matrix of competing views when considering the COVID vaccines and resistance to them. Has COVID brought us anything new under the sun?

The Standard View with Variations

There are at least four regularly heard competing views. The standard view is these new agents in use to manage COVID like other vaccines work and populations have a duty to get vaccinated. The standard view comes with variations.

One variation is that these new agents required a change of definition to be classified as vaccines, but this makes little difference to those who support the ‘vaccines’.  Whether they are appropriately called vaccines has been settled by mandates not data.

Another variation is that whether vaccines or not, these agents don’t ‘immunize’ for more than a few weeks and do not stop transmission.  Awareness of this, has probably contributed to a fall in the uptake of successive boosters but makes little difference to official recommendations.

A third variation is that, for the first time ever, the word work in the case of these agents is based on clinical trial results. In this case the data supporting the way ‘works’ in these trials defined is consistent with data that point to more deaths and hospitalizations on the vaccine than on placebo.

Language is getting somewhat twisted when the authorities can claim these vaccines work and they cause no adverse events while the very same trials for the same vaccines show more deaths and more hospitalizations in those on the vaccine.

The authorities point to other data, from sources they usually ridicule, as evidence the standard approach saves millions of lives, and billions of dollars. Most of the public seem to go along with this view – even if they are no longer taking further shots.

The Elders of Somewhere

A second commonly heard view is that these ‘vaccines’ are part of a project to reduce population size. The growth in populations has supposedly outstripped the capacity of the Earth to sustain all its peoples. For two centuries, since Thomas Malthus, some of those who view themselves as among the great and the good have held this view and continue to hold it even though earth’s population has ballooned beyond anyone’s wildest dreams and we are healthier and wealthier than ever.  Still, apparently, some Elders (not of Zion) have recently convened and decided that action needs to be taken and the mRNA vaccines are it.

The figures cited as writing the new Protocols include Bill Gates of course, and others including Steve Kirsch following a wild movie – Died Suddenly.  One problem for this view is the great and the good don’t usually decide to get rid of ‘people like us’. You’d expect them to prefer to eliminate folk with a different color skin and language etc., but it’s whiteys who’ve preferentially had mRNAs.

Reducing population size gets confused with Eugenics.  The two are quite different.

BioTerror

A third and somewhat new view is the threat of bioterrorism. Somewhat new in that whiteys previously wiped out the Aztec Empire with smallpox and the Inca Empire with measles.

According to Robert Malone, bioterror now ranks up there with nuclear warfare as something the US defense establishment figures it needs to anticipate. The military have decided we need to be able to defend ourselves in case of a bio-bomb, and they view mRNA platforms as the defense.

According to the military (according to Malone), these platforms, not necessarily their Covid payload, have for some time now been shown to be sufficiently safe for us to be able to rely on being able to produce several hundred million doses of gene therapies or vaccines or whatever they are, within weeks if called upon to do so. We being the United States. Safe being a state decided by the military.

There unquestionably has been military involvement in the roll-out of the vaccines from the United States to Argentina. There has been a lack of concern for the injured in this War consistent with a military willingness to send cannon-fodder over the top in the Great War – See If you Wake at Midnight.

Malone suggests we are being influenced by very sophisticated Psy-Ops that have created a mass formation psychosis.  He might have said:

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

He didn’t say it. Edward Bernays, the founder of public relations, said it a century ago. For a number of reasons, some outlined below, the idea of mass formation psychosis is dangerously crazy – dangerous because it distracts us from other things that we should be more worried about.

There is a program.  BARDA and bioterror are several decades old at this point and one of Obama’s last Acts in office was to put a combat bioterror program in place – a program that the more conspiracy minded figure has ongoing active collaboration between the US and China.

But if the Government and the military are running this conspiracy, there will always be room for cockups. In order to streamline the system to make it work in the case of an Emergency, successive governments have contracted with a company called Emergent to ensure things work. This turned out to be a bad mistake.

The CockUps

Finally, there are the cockups. Early vaccines cocked up in a variety of ways.  Inoculation initially meant taking pus from a scarification on a person’s arm and inoculating someone else with it.  Turns out it was possible to transmit all sorts of other infections this way, including syphilis.

Today, the hazards lie in scaling up way beyond what has ever been done for a vaccine previously. Aditi Bhargava’s Shots and Cock-ups lays the problems out. To get to where we want to go requires us to be able to produce billions of doses of something that is beyond delicate, encase it in material that is almost certain to produce inconsistent outcomes, and then cross our fingers and hope everyone gets approximately the right dose, without too many slivers of metal or other contaminants.  If this really was a Moonshot, the rocket would never have been let off the launchpad.

When Moderna and others pull millions of doses for faults, you know the cockups are real and not just another viral conspiracy.  Jikkyleaks has recently produced Australian Government evidence showing other alarming cockups.

Not suprisingly Emergent screwed up the Johnson and Johnson and Astra-Zeneca vaccines.  Was this a conspiracy or cockup? Whichever, the US Government cancelled their contract – leaving only the mRNA vaccines in place.

One of enduring mysteries is whether any of the effort is worthwhile.  There is nothing in the public domain that shows the antibodies these agents produce do anything useful other than perhaps produce a temporary non-specific response that might be semi-useful for a few weeks.

Globalization and Global War

There is one other semi-related new aspect to the mRNA stories.

The appearance of the first vaccines roughly coincided with the birth of Nation States and an industrial revolution. All of a sudden, we could produce vastly more goods than ever before. Trade between nation states and general wealth grew. All of a sudden, we had States who could insist on mandatory vaccination.

Just as companies claimed that following the logic of the market fostered innovation, States claimed the logic of Sovereignty required them to ‘manage’ health rather than leave it to individuals. States needed enough manpower to defend the national territory and perhaps extend civilization – replacing native customs found elsewhere with our set of rules.

The logic of capitalism seemed to some to dictate that nation states with successful companies would ultimately go to War to secure markets. The wars might start as trade wars, aiming to destroy a commercial competitor. Vladimir Lenin argued that the new nations and their industries underpinned by industrial and bureaucratic techniques had an inner drive to globalize and he pointed to the First World War as the predictable outcome of capitalism.

The Great War did not settle this problem. The newly communist Russia created a system of governance by numbers – a neo-liberalism before anyone had heard the word. The logic was that this newly efficient state would be able to out-compete the capitalist system.

Following a lead put in place by Russia who had turned to rational planning based on collecting numbers from every aspect of life, not just manufacturing production, Germany and Italy attempted to become efficient, bribing us to dispense with things like democracy in order to get the trains running on time. This too led to expansion into neighboring countries and then full-scale War.

After the Second World War, many, especially in the United States, figured the future lay not with capitalism or communism but with what was later called management. The computers that had developed in the War, and the officer class in the US Army kitted out with MBAs after the War, replaced entrepreneurs in running businesses and corporations, especially businesses of strategic importance for the War effort – Religion, Technology and Management.

By the mid 1940s, seasoned totalitarian watchers were warning that the US was becoming just as totalitarian as any of the European states.

Cybernetic enthusiasts, like Denis Gabor, in contrast trumpeted that:

“We are now justified in considering cybernetics as deserving first priority among all the hard sciences. It may have come just in time to harden the regrettably soft social sciences and to save our free industrial society from the twin dangers of drifting into anarchy by its instabilities or stiffening into a totalitarian system”.

Heinz von Foerster, another cheerleader, claimed:

“…we apply the competencies gained in the hard sciences to the solution of the hard problems in the soft sciences”. Cybernetics “has ultimately come to stand for the science of regulation in the most general sense”.

A.I., of which we now hear an increasing amount on all sides, was lodged inside the Trojan Horse of Cybernetics.  Also lodged inside was what we now call neo-liberalism, also called governance or to make the point more clearly Governance by Numbers.

This is why American corporations, or rather the Hedge Funds that own them, want ‘our’ ‘data’ – See I Am Not a Number and The Sovereign Individual.

Cybernetics and management didn’t stop Wars. The Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf Wars, Afghanistan and now Ukraine along with innumerable others have followed.

In addition, Naomi Klein and others have pointed out that Disasters or other Shocks can function in the same way as Wars – all of them can be viewed as disruptions, even disruptions engineered to offer opportunities to make money or consolidate market power.

There is little new here. George Bernard Shaw and others delighted in pointing out how the Great War was good for arms dealers and others. Wars and shocks have always offered opportunities, with drug cartels now moving drugs around Europe badged as Ukraine Aid.

In Cloud Empires, Vili Lehdonvirta, has outlined how digital platforms like Amazon, Google and Apple have overtaken Western States. He promises to tell us how we can regain control. But all he says is that there is a cycle stretching from Adam Smith to that 1960s/1970s that we are now repeating at speed with these new platforms, implying that we got to somewhere reasonable in the 1960s and so will likely get there again.

Cloud Empires is written beautifully and is very persuasive but the conclusion, condensed as above, is far from reassuring.

Health and Wellbeing

One reason to think that we are not facing a simple replay of what we have been through before is that there is a new factor in the mix. Health began to replace religion in the 1960s as the primary focus of our concerns. Up till then health had been about treating heart attacks or strokes or psychoses so that we could continue to be religious and seek salvation.  Our sects were religious sects like The Children of God or the Moonies.

But healthcare transmuted into health services in the 1980s and 1990s and since 2000 has been ever more about Wellbeing. Wellbeing is not just a religious aspiration – a new version of Buddhism like Mindfulness – it is a several billion dollar industry mushrooming out of control transforming the way we view ourselves.

Our Cults are now Wellbeing Cults – Eat Vegan, Do Rituals in the Gym, and take SSRI Sacraments.  This seeds of this began in the late 1960s with early ideas that rather than being ghosts hovering in the cerebral machinery our souls were chemical.  Many found this profoundly dehumanizing and departments of psychiatry were ransacked in protests with researchers wary about saying what they worked on.

The vaccines have now become health cults. Casting any doubts on them is blasphemous or sacrilegious. A decade ago, when medical journals were medical journals, it was possible for journal editors, with a posse of lawyers riding shotgun, to run articles hinting that Pandemrix might cause Narcolepsy. That day has gone.

Now that the pole holding up the tent of medical science has collapsed, pharmaceutical companies don’t need to threaten BMJ with lawsuits. They can wait for cancel culture to blacken some of the most reasonable people around like Peter Doshi.  (For Poles that hold up Tents – see The Call of the Suzerain.

Now Vladimir Putin when rallying other countries to help him can appeal to their religious sensibilities about lesbian, homosexual and transgender states.  Whether agreeing or not with homosexual, transgender or lesbian activists that these are not disease states, Westerners are even less likely to agree that these are religious matters.

What will happen in a War that pitches their Beliefs against our System?

Transgender states are not disease states. But a Wellbeing rubric does encompass them as it now encompasses most identity states and we consume most drugs now in our efforts to manage our identities – with pharmaceutical companies adept at supporting us ‘Because We are Worth it’ – See Shipwreck of the Singular for an extended discussion of this.

The medical and economic worlds remained largely separate until the 1980s when a deregulation of health in the US and embrace of management in the UK and Europe, turned health into a service industry. This service industry rapidly grew to be the biggest industry in most Western countries. In the US, services now employ 20% of the population and constitute 20% of GDP.

If these health services were extending our life expectancy, making us more functional or improving our quality of life, this might be money well spent, or at least not wasted.  But in the US especially, and other Western States, life expectancies are falling, hospitalization rates and health service spend are rising exponentially, and our quality of life, our Wellbeing, is in free fall.

Pharmaceutical companies are the drivers behind this.  Their drugs, as in this GSK advert, offer to empty our hospitals and improve our Wellbeing. They want our Data to do more of this.  But conceal their data from us – data which shows more deaths in the active treatment arms of clinical trials than on placebo. Just add a few drugs like that together and you have our falling life expectances and increasing hospitalization rates and a perception that these drugs will enable us to do anything we want – even change gender.

There is a real prospect the exponentially growing US health spend will bankrupt America unless, in a replay of 1930s totalitarian empire building, US Life Science companies (pharmaceutical and health service companies – like the Mayo Clinic) are allowed to take over other countries health markets.

The Research Compact in The Call of the Suzerain looks like a blueprint for just this. Can it succeed?

To be continued

Footnote

With the pandemic, Blogs have been replaced by Substacks, which often note a subscription would help keep things going.

Published by Samizdat, Shipwreck of the Singular. Healthcare’s Castaways rolled out with the Vaccines.  Its descriptions of a dystopian medical future seem all too present now.

It is priced at $18.95, and $8.99 in kindle from each of which Samizdat gets $5, and even less as El Naufragio de lo Singular.

Samizdat aims at the middle ground in health, enabling conversations to happen. A copy of any of its books for you or a friend, in lieu of an hypnotic, might help us all find a way to wake up.

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